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In my experience many portrait photographers are over-rated. There are certainly many exceptional and talented portraits taken, but the vast majority fall into the mundane, and usually in these days, over-processed. People should look like themselves, or if modifications are made they should represent some aspect of their personality, not simply to make skin look plasticized or to enhance natural assets.

Cell phones. You can just tell this is going to be a rant can't you? Mobile phones have been the fodder for comedians and cantankerous alike. Talking on cells in restaurants, while driving, shopping etc, etc, has been hashed over to a point that to repeat it here would be redundant to the point absurdity. Besides, I have often wondered if peoples' nearly irrational hatred of others' phone habits may have as much to do with them not having any friends who want to talk to them as it does with any objection caused by a sense of etiquette.

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