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I am deeply suspicious of these professional photographers.
Prices are astronomical now, and I think it is because decent cameras and getting decent quality prints on any surface of any size is within everyone's reach.
To make it clear that they do something that you cannot do at home, or even that is far better than you can do at home, they put the prices up so, so much.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I had fun watching a professional photographer a couple of years ago with the eldest 3 of my boys.
The younger of the 3 is hyperactive so it was well worth the stupid price the other half paid for it purely for watching the photographer begin to lose his patience trying to keep him still long enough to take a single picture.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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It is a lot more difficult than we can imagine.
Doing portrait is one thing that it is the harder; it is the classical thing to do with less artistic value to it than any other type of photography and more technical; you have to "make the shot". (have a look at the work of Yousuf Karsh[^] ); even when doing shoots at school.
Other types of professional photography are a difficult; wedding photography is hell (I've tried doing one a couple of weeks ago, and it will be the last one); event photography is hard; sport photographers are in a class by themselves.
The democratization of photography does not mean everyone is a good/great photographer and that they are prepared to spend a whole day shooting and a couple of more days picking and cleaning up photographs and lamenting on how many shot they missed; and having to deal with customers that are never happy with what you did wrong and right.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I don't doubt for one second that a photograph from a professional will be better than I could take.
I don't doubt for one second that the increase in quality is not worth £500.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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ChrisElston wrote: I don't doubt for one second that there is any photography that's worth £500 to me.
Fixed that 
For personal use I suppose the prices of professional photographs are way too expensive. However for businesses having professional shots on the website etc. may well be worth the extra money.
Additionally, if your company does some project work for others the price per hour is also calculated quite high usually. So if you hire are photographer for a day to get some good photos should be probably of more or less on the same level of payment.
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Last company I worked for whored me out for £750 a day (not that I saw any of it of course) for general computer related stuff not covered by their contracts with us.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Five frogging days to prepare a link!
One day per image. It looks reasonable to me. 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Now for the best part.
In the US unless you explicitly contract otherwise the pictures still belong to the photographer.
So it is possible you might see your kid end up in a print ad.
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Assuming you have a half way decent camera, the trick here is, on school photo day, when the kidiwinks are washed and dressed more thoroughly than normal, grab the camera, sit them down and shoot of hundreds of portraits. One is bound to come out good enough (although lighting is often a problem if you don't have the facilities, you can always take them in natural light if you live in an area not entirely devoid of glimpses of the sun.
Then (esp. easy for the unemployed) escort the offspring to school and ask to hang around for the photos (you can make up an excuse or just admit that you think the prices is a complete rip-off; it depends on your relationship with the teacher!)
When they take the class photo, you feign an interest in photography to chat to the photographer - then just click off a few of the class. Job done.
If you are a real arse (what am I saying? It's Nagy!) you can then contact all the other parents and offer to sell the class pic at just over cost!
I only usually get the class photo from the school (as I am in gainful employment so can't get to the school any more) - the individual shots are just more money-grabbing by the schools.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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I was in a shop the other day when the sales assistant asked me what I was after.
"I want some cheap binoculars" I said.
He smiled,picked up a box and told me that I need look no further.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Who ever you are, please let Dave return.
He was able to humour us at least some of the time, rare occurrences as those might have been.
Please do let him return!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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After reading this, the question came to my mind. So what would be the next challenging problem to be resolved?
Behzad
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how about
curing the common cold
world peace
solving world hunger
what does all this technology actually mean if its not solving things like that ?
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: world peace
solving world hunger
Mutually exclusive.
We need more wars to relieve the burden on natural resources.
Crucially though they need to be wars fought by lots and lots of men with pointy sticks rather than small groups of geeks with remote controls.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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And put the leaders in the front row. Killed two birds with one stone 
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Absolutely, I don't mind them having the shiniest armour and sitting on a big horse as long as they're at the front leading the way.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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an interesting point of view - [tongue-in-cheek] very 1st world [/tongue-in-cheek] (which was what I was going to respond to the OP but changed my mind)
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The man who has contributed most to the world we now live in was Genghis Khan, he killed so many people that vast areas of land previously cleared by those that lived on them returned to being Forest and created a huge new carbon sink. He personally created a period of global cooling.
Imagine how overpopulated and warm the planet would be now if he hadn't laid all that groundwork many years ago.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Did he do huge carbon washing up as well?
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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ChrisElston wrote: We need more wars to relieve the burden on natural resources.
It has been quite some time since violence much less wars substantially reduced the population of the world.
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What's your timescale for solving those problems?
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well,
if "the journey of a thousand miles begins beneath ones feet" : Lao-tzu, circa 604-531 bc (oft mis-quoted/interpreted as '..begins with a single step' btw)
and
'Rome wasnt built in a day'
then I'll settle for any start of progress from tomorrow onwards
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1) Zero-point energy and how to access it.
2) Deciding how many Higgs there actually are (probably related to (1) above)
3) Understanding women for men (unlikely) / Understanding men for women (even less likely)
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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1 and 2 are far, far more likely than 3 - understanding women (fullstop) (and hence I will remain evermore single)
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