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October 8, 2013 at 1:33 pm #14062
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Participant@iliketag: The best response to handle that is: Each wedding is different and I decide pricing based upon what I am expected to shoot for the day. I would be happy to discuss your day and your expectations for photographs, and then decide a price. I will completely understand if you decide that my pricing does not work for you and that you want to choose another photographer.
As for shooting for friends, I won’t discount my wedding prices, but I do discount family photos. Weddings are just too long of a day to do as a gift for a friend. Family I don’t mind helping out for weddings, because I make it clear that at some point (after the important shots) I am going to put my camera down and enjoy the reception.
Nothing about this shot works…def not the tone…and the poor girl looks really uncomfortable:
October 8, 2013 at 2:14 pm #14064JanJan
ParticipantI know this is about the pictures, but if you see the caption of that album, I find it a bit weird that those were not only a senior session, but also engagement session as well. When I was that was an engagement session, I was like, “She looks really young”, until I saw the caption that it was both a senior and engagement session. Well, at least she’s over 18, I assume!
October 8, 2013 at 2:30 pm #14067emf
ParticipantThat girl on the log looks like she’s just been ship wrecked – is that the look they wanted?
October 9, 2013 at 10:52 am #14090KeyAndFill
ParticipantA large majority of all of her photos have blown highlights. Apparently she has never considered that bright spots in a photo detract from your subject.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/941464_452722201472229_1925747548_n.jpg
Instead of looking at the subjects eyes the viewer’s eyes keep going back to the bright blob that should be a torso, maybe she has gone nuclear.
Classic faux mistake: https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/72515_449023678508748_43768169_n.jpg The face is torn between highlights and shadow.
No attention to background detail. Chairs from the ceremony piled up. https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1375134_518626018215180_380670754_n.jpg
I’m not typically a basher, I usually just shake my head when I see poor fauxs who think they are grand. But this one really got under my skin. She didn’t even know how to attach a lens to her camera body.
October 9, 2013 at 12:40 pm #14098fstopper89
ParticipantI’ve given slight discounts to friends who’ve asked me to shoot their weddings. (I don’t advertise I shoot weddings, I don’t really have the time or desire for it- but have done for friends and 2nd shooting).
One time a former co-worker asked me to shoot her wedding (long story short I had no desire to due mainly to the fact that she and her bf/fiance broke up a few times and it didn’t seem like a good situation/ turns out he left her at the altar when they finally were going to get married, poor girl) and she asked me my price. I said “generally around $xxxx amount depending on the wedding and that includes professional editing and the images on a disk for you.” (I didn’t plan on a discount for her since she wasn’t really a friend of mine, but estimated the price based on what I offer and the quality.)
Her response was “$xxxx? That’s insane! I don’t want all that editing and stuff, I just want all the pictures!” I said “Well, I always edit my work because that’s part of the process, and that’s what I charge….”
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