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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: EOS My stuff and wedding
The one thing that I always see new wedding photographers make a mention
over is how much camera equipment they have and are going to take. They
never mention how they plan on using it or what they are going to try and
capture the day of the wedding and what it will mean to the bride, groom
and their families. First time out you need to keep things as simple as
possible. The best shots are the events that happen when your changing
lens. Then I hate to tell you this but 9 times out of 10 you have been
asked to take the photos as they know you have a camera and "Marco is a
good guy and he won't charge us for this". They don't want to or can not
pay a photographer who does this for a living. God help you if you blow
this- friendship is "OVER"!
My father had a very sage comment on this very subject, "The best way to
lose a friend is to shoot his wedding." My rule of thumb is to never
photograph a wedding to which we would be invited. Since my wife and I
shoot weddings, I have had several "friends" ask us to do theirs, of course
at a steep "friendly" discount. This rule avoids that issue. If they
really are good enough friends to invite us to the wedding, then, generally,
either they wouldn't ask us in the first place, or they certainly understand
our feelings on the matter. Hey, we just want to have fun with our friends,
not have the pressure of getting all the important images and forego
socializing, which is the only choice. If they are not good enough friends
to invite us to their wedding, then they certainly don't qualify for the
"friendly" discount...
Skip Middleton
http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com
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