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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gohan2091" data-source="post: 254406" data-attributes="member: 11990">Thanks all for the replies. It's been raining heavily all day today! I never said I was a professional, these are your words, I said I was a semi-professional which is what I class myself as I am not a rookie, nor a professional but somewhere in the middle. I also don't care if you don't feel for me, I find your post rather negative and from reading other peoples replies, it appears I am not the only one. I don't know why you compare me to your professional photographer friends when I am not a professional. However good or bad I conduct business, it doesn't show how good or bad I am at photography. There must be loads of people who are very good at what they do but may conduct business poorly in the early stages. She found me for the engagement shoot on a local free-ads website. I  stated in my ad that I am 'seeking further experience'. If she was not happy with my level of photography, then why would she book me for a 2nd time after the engagement shoot? There are plenty of ads on the same free-ad website from people calling themselves 'professional', she had from July to January to find one, but she still communicated with me, until mid January. She has her wedding at a small registry office in the middle of the city, this clearly tells me that her budget isn't so large.  I have experienced rejection so many times in my life so I do not  mind if someone wants to say thanks but no thanks and book another  photographer. If she would have said "I am no longer required" then I  would have been fine with that.I don't see how alarm bells were rung. I shot her engagement, she knew my prices, she was happy with the photos enough to ask if I could photograph her wedding 6 months in advance. Up until the last 2 weeks, she has been communicating with me fine. Furthermore, I have shown her my portfolio twice so she knows what to expect. Are you suggesting she hired me for a 2nd time and communicated with me for all those months for a laugh? The only advertisement I do is on a free-ads website. On the website, there are about 20 or so photographers posting ads in my home city. Most of these don't charge anything more than £400 and many are charging under £275 for a full days work. These are my competitors and since I do this part-time as a small 2nd income and I am not as experienced as a professional, I can't warrant charging high hundreds or thousands at the moment but I will be increasing my prices in the future (I may post a new thread about this later with a link to my portfolio)I feel I did the right thing and this is further enforced by the comments on here. I didn't phone the hotel to sneak around, I did it to try and be helpful. I don't want the soon to be bride to be at her wedding, expecting me there and I haven't shown up due to a prank text. I did try and phone her, but it went to voicemail. The last thing I want is to be sued for not delivering what was agreed. If I was to go back in time, I would still do the same thing, I caught her in a lie and she has revealed her true colours.I've only shot half a dozen, but I've also shot christenings, birthday parties and a few other misc jobs, as well as a recent baby shoot.Thanks for your post. Yes, it's certainly possible that was what happened, but I phoned the hotel the night before the wedding day so if she was going to cancel, I would have thought she would have done so before hand. I guess we will never know what really happened.</blockquote>

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