Chrylser 200 Convertible Photographer Rants About Leaked Images, Attacks Car Blogs

Webb Bland is the man who was hired by Chrysler to photograph the new 200 Convertible. Bland did an excellent job (ironic considering his last name), but he is fuming because the pictures leaked ahead of the official Debut.

Bland took to his Facebook page to let loose on pretty much everyone. He blamed Chrysler for letting the photos leak so easily, specifically the “lone, misguided idiot” responsible.

But Bland also took aim at car blogs who have already posted the photos and “cropped the photos awkwardly without any back story”.

Oh hell no! Now it’s personal!

Here’s the thing, Mr. Bland. While I understand that you take your work very seriously and that you put lots of effort into your work,  you’ve obviously never dealt with the automotive industry before. Leaked pictures ahead of an official debut are as normal and as frequent as Charlie Sheen doing coke. For you to take some sort of egotistical and self centered stand, suggesting  you’re the only person this has ever happened to, is both immature and uninformed. This isn’t the art world and this isn’t the photography world. Leaked photos happen in the car world all the time.

Secondly, while I grant you the photos are well done and beautifully shot, no car enthusiast cares about the “back story” of them. All we care about is the car itself. You could have photographed the 200 Convertible amid a pile of vomit and we still only would’ve cared about the car. We don’t even notice the background 90% of the time.

Thirdly, and again, your lack of knowledge of the car world is apparent here, no one actually cares about the Chrysler 200 Convertible. We’ve already seen the 200 sedan and we can deduce from it what the convertible will look like. There are no real surprises here in terms of design. You’re lucky car blogs were even bothered to post the pictures at all. I certainly wasn’t. But the upcoming Chrysler 200 convertible is about as exciting as a prostate exam. Until Chrysler actually goes and redesigns it completely, it will still be as useless to the typical car enthusiast as the current Sebring is. To be blunt, your pictures really aren’t that important to us. The 200 convertible is the same as your last name which is also ironically hilarious.

And lastly, you got paid, didn’t you? And you got credit for the images didn’t you? Regardless of them being leaked ahead of time, Chrysler fulfilled their part of the deal. Just because it didn’t happen on your terms doesn’t mean the whole thing is ruined. And since it was their product that got leaked they should really be the ones pissed off about it, not you.

To attack car blogs for posting the leaked pics is kind of like biting the hand that feeds you. You need us to actually post your work, otherwise no one gets to see it, so I’d think twice before attacking us car bloggers next time. Just sayin’.

Click here to read Bland’s rant.

[Autoblog]

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