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<blockquote data-quote="DLD" data-source="post: 1589054" data-attributes="member: 19707"><p>Unless you're a really good livestock photographer yourself, it's probably well worth it to hire a professional. Let's you concentrate on making your cattle look their best, and the photographer can capture that image for you.</p><p></p><p>I firmly believe that using bad, or even just so-so pictures to try and promote your cattle is one of the worst things you can do for your program. People won't try to look past the bad things about a picture promoting your stock to try to see the good, even though you can. And if they're not impressed by the pics they've seen, they're not coming to look, much less buy. That's why I don't post many pics of my cattle online - I rarely feel like the ones I take do them justice. </p><p></p><p>The best example is to look through the online sale sites - it's easy to tell the difference in the photos and videos from the pro's and the amateurs. And it's easy to see that the sales with the poorer quality images rarely, if ever, get along very well. </p><p></p><p>All that said, there are quite a few people nowadays that have maybe had a photography class or two, or learned from a pro, or just plain practiced enough to get pretty good. If you're one of them, you may not need to hire the pro's. If you think you're good enough, try 'til you get pics you like really well, then show them to someone (preferably multiple someone's) that knows show cattle and who will be honest with you. If they say they're good enough, you ought to be good to go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DLD, post: 1589054, member: 19707"] Unless you’re a really good livestock photographer yourself, it’s probably well worth it to hire a professional. Let’s you concentrate on making your cattle look their best, and the photographer can capture that image for you. I firmly believe that using bad, or even just so-so pictures to try and promote your cattle is one of the worst things you can do for your program. People won’t try to look past the bad things about a picture promoting your stock to try to see the good, even though you can. And if they’re not impressed by the pics they’ve seen, they’re not coming to look, much less buy. That’s why I don’t post many pics of my cattle online - I rarely feel like the ones I take do them justice. The best example is to look through the online sale sites - it’s easy to tell the difference in the photos and videos from the pro’s and the amateurs. And it’s easy to see that the sales with the poorer quality images rarely, if ever, get along very well. All that said, there are quite a few people nowadays that have maybe had a photography class or two, or learned from a pro, or just plain practiced enough to get pretty good. If you’re one of them, you may not need to hire the pro’s. If you think you’re good enough, try ‘til you get pics you like really well, then show them to someone (preferably multiple someone’s) that knows show cattle and who will be honest with you. If they say they’re good enough, you ought to be good to go. [/QUOTE]
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