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| - I am a Las Vegas native and have been to Jeff Mitchum's gallery multiple times. The first time I heard of this gallery I became excited because we have few here. As soon as I entered the gallery I was filled with misery, another photographer had jumped on to the Peter Lik bandwagon of charging far too much per print, the over use of bad HDR techniques and blowing up their mediocre, badly post-processed images as large as possible and selling them on gimmicky metallic photo paper. The only thing worse than the prints in this gallery are the salespeople. As I looked at each image I was approached by which ever salesperson that was present the multiple times that I have gone to the gallery. I was bombarded with a lack of knowledge about photography on their half. One time I was there I was looking at a very poorly done extremely large print of a pixelated HDR image of a sail boat, the salesperson approached me and started telling me the origin of the image. When I asked her about why Jeff had decided to make a post process High Dynamic Range of a moving image she could not answer me, I explained what I meant and she assured me that it was a single image and had not been manipulated by post processing. I let her finish her sales pitch and left. About a year later I found my self in the Bellagio and decided to visit again, as I looked at the image, Radiant Wonder, I was approached by a salesperson who said, isn't it wonderful how he was able to capture such a magnificent moment in a single image, if only that were true. I explained to her that there was no possible way that print is a single image, the bird was layered on in post process because the background (waterfall) had been taken in a slow exposure. She continued her sales pitch and assured me that Jeff was a master of his art. The thing that bothers me the most is that Jeff and other "artists" such as Peter Lik are taking advantage of buyers with big wallets and little knowledge and trick them in to thinking they are buying a masterpiece, when in reality they are lying and deceiving and selling a $500-1000 print for upwards of $40,000. These buyers find themselves in difficult positions later on when trying to sell. Thinking they will be able to sell them for more than the purchased price because of the lies the salespeople tell them, few are lucky enough to sell them for $1000. Plus many of your largest prints are pixelated.
RESPONSE TO JEFF MITCHUM'S COMMENT:
I appreciate the response back to my comment. I strongly recommend that you do not tell someone how to spend their time, I was simply reviewing my experiences in your gallery, you as a gallery owner should look at my review as a way to improve yourself and be thankful that someone took the time to write a review about your business, even if it was a negative critique. I spend much of my time creating and shooting, I rarely critique anything, however your salespeople left me with such a bad taste in my mouth I felt it necessary to tell your future visitors about my experiences and heed them with warnings. From the tone of your comment I feel that you want me to apologize for the false information that your salespeople had relayed to me. The sail boat photo is the only photo in your gallery that I can recall being an HDR, knowing that it is not yours is refreshing. I apologize for not being aware that only your display prints have the digital signatures, it makes me happy to know that you sign and number each of your prints.
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