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I have to say that, at a niece's wedding a few years ago, their shots were not much better.
I think one issue with the advent of digital photography is the ability to take as many shots as you like at no real additional cost. It struck me that the photographer at the aforementioned wedding did just that and then burned all of the shots to a DVD and handed it over. The only "PP" done appeared to be the deletion of any totally bad shots (evident by non-consecutive file names.)
Bring back the day when a tog only had a handful of rolls of film and had to make pretty much every shot count.
In closing I quote an old adage: "What's the difference between a good photographer and a bad photographer? A good photographer never shows you his bad photographs".
I think one issue with the advent of digital photography is the ability to take as many shots as you like at no real additional cost. It struck me that the photographer at the aforementioned wedding did just that and then burned all of the shots to a DVD and handed it over. The only "PP" done appeared to be the deletion of any totally bad shots (evident by non-consecutive file names.)
Bring back the day when a tog only had a handful of rolls of film and had to make pretty much every shot count.
In closing I quote an old adage: "What's the difference between a good photographer and a bad photographer? A good photographer never shows you his bad photographs".
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Think I've read this before but it still goes to show that you get what you pay for (to some degree).
Whilst £750 would be at the lower end of the wedding photography price range, you would still expect the images to be better quality although in the interests of balance it's a bit unfair to just based on the worst ones that have been used by the newspaper.
Probably the biggest mistake the photographer made was letting the customer see the really bad ones. If he had delivered say 50 reasonable to good quality images the perception may not have been as bad. Failing that, say the memory card(s) failed and offer a staged re-shoot.
Whilst £750 would be at the lower end of the wedding photography price range, you would still expect the images to be better quality although in the interests of balance it's a bit unfair to just based on the worst ones that have been used by the newspaper.
Probably the biggest mistake the photographer made was letting the customer see the really bad ones. If he had delivered say 50 reasonable to good quality images the perception may not have been as bad. Failing that, say the memory card(s) failed and offer a staged re-shoot.
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I have to say that, at a niece's wedding a few years ago, their shots were not much better.
I think one issue with the advent of digital photography is the ability to take as many shots as you like at no real additional cost. It struck me that the photographer at the aforementioned wedding did just that and then burned all of the shots to a DVD and handed it over. The only "PP" done appeared to be the deletion of any totally bad shots (evident by non-consecutive file names.)
Bring back the day when a tog only had a handful of rolls of film and had to make pretty much every shot count.
In closing I quote an old adage: "What's the difference between a good photographer and a bad photographer? A good photographer never shows you his bad photographs".
This article has indeed appeared beforehttp://photocamel.com/forum/photography-talk/158963-how-not-take-wedding-photographs.html
Reading this again reminded me that one of the team is/was epeleptic therefore unable to use flash
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ive seen worse - in fact ive seen worse on this forum (although not often). That said they are a courtcase waiting to happen
as to epileptic so couldnt use flash
a) b*****ks , epileptics can use flash its just certain frequences of multiple flash that can trigger a seizure (like a strobe light)
b) may be in the wrong industry ?
as to epileptic so couldnt use flash
a) b*****ks , epileptics can use flash its just certain frequences of multiple flash that can trigger a seizure (like a strobe light)
b) may be in the wrong industry ?
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At least they got photos of their day. The photographer we used for our wedding, back in 1996, somehow managed to spool his film incorrectly, on every occasion, and all photos overlapped.
Thank god for friends and family with their instamatics!
Thank god for friends and family with their instamatics!
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yeah a freind of mine the photographer dropped the wallet of memory cards down a drain grid in the car park ... like you do :bang:
