I'm cheesed about this wedding photographer...

[photogramps]

How did the shots come out?

Not much interest in this question I see

 

[SteveL54]

When I first started out shooting for a living 35 years ago I did weddings. Made good money and got good reviews from all the people who saw my work. I started charging more and the more I charged the more business I got. Hated shooting every wedding. So I started trying to price myself out of the wedding business. Again more customers. Finally just had to quit shooting them at all. Generally the bride and groom were lots of fun to work with but the bride's mother was always a problem.

You don't have to be a photographer to agree with this.........

 

[skater]

The thing that amazes me is the $1700 part. I think we paid $2400 for two professionals, rights to the images, a photo album, an engagement pictures session at the DC Cherry Blossom Festival, and several pictures printed from the engagement shoot that my wife put on scrapbook pages for people to sign... They were also giving tips to a friend of ours that was there with his D90 (he has since switched to a full frame Nikon). I know we paid $700 more, but given all we got either $2400 was really cheap or $1700 was way too much. Of course we're absolutely thrilled with the results and would use them again if we were getting married again.

Friends of ours had a baby last year and they asked me to do some pregnancy shots as well as some shots of the baby after she was born, and some pictures of her baptism. I was quite nervous and explained that I usually don't do pictures of people, etc. they assured me that they understood. I tried my best and came out with some good shots, but it's not something I want to do professionally. Fortunately my wife, also an amateur photographer who is better with kids, was helping. I'll take my camera along to weddings but I want to make sure I'm not in the pro's way.

 

[rocketman122]

So much of wedding photography is knowing the ceremony and events surrounding it and knowing when to be where to get "the shot", as well as knowing how to pose people and paying attention to details, and knowing your equipment inside and out, and it all just adds up too fast and is just too stressful.

Few people really get it all right, but it's amazing how many people charge for photos when they get hardly any of it right.

Then again, the public can be quite ignorant of the whole thing. A local pro I know was supposed to have a family beach portrait session, but they cancelled with him because he wanted to shoot in the late afternoon/evening and not in the middle of the day.

because he wanted to get the golden hour pictures and basically have nice aesthetic pics, theyy cancelled him?

in weddings not every photographer is "strong" with every part of the event. for instance im strong with many parts of it, but my less strong area is the outdoor groom bride portrait shoot

a good wedding photographer is not only about shooting. a lot is having good intuitions and assessing the situation and anticipating things that are unfolding. being aware of whats going on around you. pretty much its shooting and looking around, shooting, looking around..

 

[Whiskeyman]

because he wanted to get the golden hour pictures and basically have nice aesthetic pics, theyy cancelled him?

Yes, they did. Turns out the photographer they replaced him with took the session. They told the replacement photographer as much very matter of factly, and the replacement/replaced photographers know each other.