Its one am again and Im here editing.
I shot a wedding last saturday and here is a really quick preview. There was a group of truckers that fell in love with the bride in at same gas station that the couple met. Guys came around and put on a quite a dance show. Just to remind the groom that there are takers if he ever lets go. Not gona happen thou.
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One of Finnish tabloid paper put up 15 wedding portraits for the readers to choose the best one. I don’t know what to think of those pics. Some are really cool, but others are shot with “the nephviews new awsome digital camera.” It would be ok to do a technicly bad picture if the concept rocks but nope. Point and shoot wedding portrait. You get what pay for I suppose.
I said it before and I’ll said it again. Biggest problem is not me failing a job its me getting a way with it. If I mess things up I need to get shouted at. For magazine and newspaper shooters there are picture editors to do the shouting but I do not have the luxury of someone else going over my wedding photos. I have to be my own worts critique. That said, I just send out an email to a client which basicly said that Im not complitely happy with the set I delivered and I will do another set of black and white pictures for them. For free, of course. If and when I get to choose I would only do black and white wedding pictures.
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On the side note something cool is happening. Plenty of ideas flying around at least.
Yep. A couple of those 15 pics were good. Most were ok, but not really something I would publish if they were mine. Then there were the ones that really made me say “come on, you can’t be that blind”
On your pics and critique, think of it also in the light of the fact that the customer is right, (not always, but most of the time) and if they are happy with the pics, then you’ve done what you were paid for. The point is that a photographer or somebody else in picture business sees a picture quite differently from the average Joe out there. Being critical of ones own work is good and well, but overdoing it can sometimes do more damage than good.
Oh yeah, one word of advice on business. This little request to customers can be real useful: “If you are not pleased with what you get, tell me. If you are, tell your friends”
hmm..
chase said, if its worth doing, it worth overdoing.
Any point in that? I think so, to a certain degree.
Ok. There is no way in h*ll I will start disputing Chase, I don’t have the credentials for that. All I’ll say is that in my opinion there are times when overdoing is worth it and times when it’s not…
The best advertisement being from mouth to mouth is so true. I’ve been kinda shy to ask people to recomend me but I hope that my work and attitude towards the jobs will be enough.
The work has to speak for it self.