Sorry if this topic has been posted elsewhere before.

I was just wondering if any of you have used your photos in a professional sense after coming onto Caedes. Perhaps you thought your photos were awful, yet the positive comments here have made you rethink that.

I can honestly say that it has helped me in a way. Although I have only posted one image I actually like (Fall of Lora) on this website, for fear of them getting ripped (I know you are on the lookout for such things, but I see these images popping up time and time again on places like Livejournal and other bloggers....without proper credit being given).
Anyway, i've been persuaded by a family member to release some of my photos into the public world =O. About 3-4 of them are currently being framed and are going to be hung in the waiting room of a local dental surgery. It's not much, but it may at least calm down a some nervous people before they have their teeth attacked with a large drill =).


So, anyone else have stories of how Caedes has helped them?

I'll wait until after I launch my business to say whether it helped me or not! :-D

my site should be up by the end of the week, i'll let u know after you've purchased some of my work :-p

Caedes may not have helped me professionally because I'm still in high school... I can't even work a cashier at a gas station, but it has inspired one of my courses in school, digital photography, because I loved the art here so much, I wanted to know how it was done and how to do it myself.

I just liked having a place to see good art of all kinds that could be viewed objectively. My mother says art should be beautiful and look like something. Others my age say anything is art if you say it is. I appreciate that the people here seem to have found a decent balance that I can wholeheartedly agree with rather wander around wondering who's right.

And I like knowing that there are others here who share some of my same interests. I don't think that anyone likes most of the things I do within like a two hundred mile radius.

I'm with Steph. No job. Not even a digital photography class like her. I just like this place. Thank you caedes. You may have saved my sanity.

an odd question and the answer is yes because seeing the work and tutorials that other people have produced can and should induce a spark of insparation to go and try new techniques and styles, so it's not just the site that has been helpful but everyone in it too. and im sure it will continue to be.