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Date Posted: 08:52:45 10/29/05 Sat
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Subject: from another board

From the retoucher who started this challenge idea. Click in and I will introduce myself. -- Ken, 17:05:43 10/28/05 Fri [9]
My name is Ken and I do retouch for Donna, Troy and Jennifer. I have done so for years and they are the only people I work for. I am not looking for any other clients. They have been loyal to me and I shall remain so to them. That said, let's get started.
I started this challenge idea as a reality from a comment someone had made as a passing thought in another post. There are now several threads running about the idea and one of them has offered to begin the challenge and supplied an e-mail address for interested parties. They also stated some guidelines and such and seem to be trying to fast-track this rather than do it in such a way that everyone has a say in how it works. As I have said in other posts, I believe this to be a joint effort that everyone should agree on before proceeding. I introduced myself so that everyone would know that I'm not new to this and, hopefully will regard it as more than just a ploy. I have nothing to lose and nothing to gain rather than to protect mothers from spending their hard earned money on pics that are sub-par to the standards they expect.
I encourage competition as long as it continues to grow the pageant industry and not diminish it. We all have pics that aren't as good as we wish they were for whatever reason. The trick is to make those the exception. Right now, I fear that the influx of people trying this out to make a quick buck is diluting the talent pool. Let's try to refine the product once again to a level of excellance and not become complacent and accepting of a lesser product.
I'm sure that some of you will be inclined to respond with comments about me rather than the contest and, if that is the case, please do it in another posting. I want to try to keep this to retouchers discussing guidelines and such rather than a forum to critisize any retoucher who makes a comment.
The e-mail address I have set up for all of us to send to is "therealretouchchallenge@comcast.net". I will forward any and all e-mails that are sent there(unless otherwise specified) to all retouchers who wish to receive them. I am hoping that, at least, all of the bigger name retouchers will participate and some of the up and comers who want to see where they are. I don't want you all to think I'm being vain and claiming any kind of superiority to any of the rest of you, but I just wanted to point out that I'm not a newbie. We all know who the big names are and that there is not one retoucher for each photographer. So let's not be coy or play dumb.
I'll stop this post for now and add a suggested format in a post to follow. We can then take your suggestions and refine them from there. I look forward to meeting you all even if it is just through e-mail. Thank You.

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