Thursday, November 23, 2006

I received this from fellow Gouda-born, Joop de Wit:

What do you think?

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To Whom It May Concern,

Having received my free picture this week from the Consul General via Holland Focus, I would like to comment on the terrible colour quality of the production.
How in heavens name can a so called professional photographer make such bad pictures in this digital day and age.
I am absolutely disgusted in the overall quality and the colours in the picture. Everyone looks like a tin of beetroot, red in the face is an understatement. Sorry that's very much the 50th and the 60th look when colour started to become an issue in photography, not these day's in 2006.

When I viewed all the pictures online one week after the Royal visit, I knew that the overall quality wasn't very good. The pictures, as expected were deliberately downsized including a watermark applied to stop people from pulling them off the net. However with modern computer equipment and various patches there is never a problem taking anything off the net these day's. Fact remains that the picture size on the net was, as expected, reduced and low in pixels, with the numbers and the total size of so many pictures displayed, this is a total understandable situation to keep the overall size of the site into prospective.

In today's commercial world and with the various types of Digital camera equipment available for such occasions, it is an absolute shame that one cannot produce a picture that is near perfect whatever the situation. The so called photographer had a perfect position, the various lights were in a proper place, eliminating the need for flash, an ideal position to produce a much better result, this despite the security situation and restrictions placed on everyone that day. As one expects and knows, a professional photographer must think on his or her feet. Take a wedding for example which places everyone in difficult and sometimes impossible situations. This event was one position and one position only. Sorry, it was something I wasn't expecting to get.

I would like to make an official complaint to those responsible for having approved or consented to this sort of photographer who I would never trust to make any photo, especially with a function involving Royalty and so many people being given the opportunity to have a free keepsake of a very special moment in their lives. We don't even touch on the issue of the pictures being handed down in time to the next generation.

It never fails to amaze me that, as an amateur photographer with a 1500 dollar, 2 year old Sony digital camera, I can produce decent pictures whatever the light situation or whatever I have attempted with my camera in the past. (including the forcing of no flash when required)

The photographer in question was a very bad choice, something that can never be repeated or changed. I know damn well as a retired funeral director, you only have one and only one chance to give a person his last farewell, no room for errors, one cannot tell the family that we will do it all over again if something wasn't attended to or forgotten.

Maybe I could apply for a new job in my retirement! I've got the camera!

You may respond.

Regards:
Joop de Wit,
Newcastle NSW

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