With me, it's the opposite. I'll get an e-mail from some guy who tells me he wants to get into my business (pics of naked girls) and he tells me about all the equipment he has (usually several orders of magnitude more expensive than mine), but when I look at his pics, I ask myself "Who would pay for these?"
In photography, there are guys I like to call "equipment collectors." This type of guy is sure that all that stands between him and great photography is the next piece of equipment on his list.
They will write and say, "I really love your lighting. What kind of softboxes do you use?" and they are shocked and appalled when I write back to tell them that I use a combination of window light, fill flash from my camera, and flash bounced off the ceiling from a flash unit mounted on a side bracket. Total value under $1200. So much for the $3000+ they spent on studio flash units, soft boxes or umbrellas, etc.
Too bad you can't buy talent.
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