Archive 2012 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
marti.g3 Offline • • • • [X]
p.2 #1 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
MattSepeta wrote:
Little sympathy for the couple. Sure it's a bummer, but I also have little sympathy for a person who buys the cheapest "xyz" possible then is outraged when it breaks.
Even less sympathy for the photographer who just hacked his career down at the knees!
....that photographer will still shoot weddings and make money. People have very short memories.
Jun 27, 2012 at 09:27 AM
Chris Beaumont Offline • • • • • [X]
p.2 #2 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
ricardovaste wrote:
So very, very true. But it's entirely his mistake, nothing to do with the couples decisions, did you not read the full article Chris?
To be quite honest I couldn't work out WHAT the point of the article was, I understand why they'd want to vent, but I don't really see what the "angle" was from Yahoo's point-of-view, 'filler' would be a compliment I think.
p.2 #4 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
What I really would have liked to have seen mentioned in this article (or any of the others of this ilk) "we are so disappointed, I really wish we had hired a professional for this and urge others not to make the mistake we have" and actually take some responsibility.
Jun 27, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Chris Beaumont Offline • • • • • [X]
p.2 #5 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
@mark - you'd presume that would be the case, and even implicit wouldn't you? But, like you, it struck me as a glaring omission, as it is it just reads "we wanted something REALLY REALLY important to us, but we had a friend do it for free, and now we're suprised it didn't go flawlessly, feel sorry for us"
p.2 #6 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
Chris Beaumont wrote:
For realz? Even though he was a friend, presumably with no formal agreement (contract) or payment??
Not quite. Some idiot party would attempt to sue for $1 million, fail, waste a bunch of their time and pick up $300 if they're lucky. Litigation culture makes me want to vomit.
p.2 #7 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
Tony Hoffer wrote:
If you're so upset about missing photos that you can't even talk about the wedding, you may want to reevaluate why you got married.
The voice if reason here. Trust me when I say that I understand that people are devastated when their images come out poor, or not at all. But at the end of the day, it's about the commitment, the joy, the friendship, the support from family and friends as you embark on what most of believe to be a lifelong marriage.
Isn't that what marriage is about? Or am I old school and an idealist?
p.2 #8 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
tonyhart wrote:
Not quite. Some idiot party would attempt to sue for $1 million, fail, waste a bunch of their time and pick up $300 if they're lucky. Litigation culture makes me want to vomit.
My day job is in the legal field. It's bad. Really bad. What some people feel they are worth when it's clearly their fault is absolute insanity.
Studied for the LSATs. Picked up a camera. Stopped studying for the LSATs. That's my story.
p.2 #9 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
They deserve it. Also - notice they took an 8 day honeymoon including 2 nights in a 5 star hotel. Could that money have been put to better use - like....perhaps a pro photographer??
Ive had couples who have hired me ( which im not low end ) and then I ask them about their honeymoon and they reply, we are waiting until we can afford it. They value photographs enough to understand that spending the money for a pro is worth it, even in front of their honeymoon priorities.
I have no sympathy for this couple at all. None. In fact Im glad this happened, because stories like this only make the stock value of professional photographers go up.
Jun 27, 2012 at 01:15 PM
Chris Beaumont Offline • • • • • [X]
p.2 #10 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
Daboyle wrote:
because stories like this only make the stock value of professional photographers go up.
Agree with everything you said except this.
The article doesn't, anywhere, have any kind of moral "wish we'd hired a pro" and is one of a recent spate in the UK papers of "our wedding photos were RUINED" articles which, if anything, only seem to be lowering the stock of photography (as in "they're all crap anyway, may as well only spent £3.82/get Dave to do it, he's got a nice camera")
p.2 #13 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
Chris Beaumont wrote:
Agree with everything you said except this.
The article doesn't, anywhere, have any kind of moral "wish we'd hired a pro" and is one of a recent spate in the UK papers of "our wedding photos were RUINED" articles which, if anything, only seem to be lowering the stock of photography (as in "they're all crap anyway, may as well only spent £3.82/get Dave to do it, he's got a nice camera")
Agreed. I don't think it makes people think 'we better make sure we hire a pro' but more 'ugh another photographer messes up someone's wedding, that poor couple' and is generally damaging.
p.2 #14 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
Chris Beaumont wrote:
Who the feck publically names and shames a friend like this because he made a stupid drunken mistake after something he did FOR FREE??
She doesn't even have a RIGHT to complain if it was free!
p.2 #15 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
Chris and Mark are pointing to the underlying problem with such articles here. There is no real moral, or solution, just another story where it all seems to point towards "awful wedding photographers". Sure, the couple and 'photographer' all made numerous awful decisions and actions, but to simply publish these events with the same old agenda (wedding photographers are awful, let's look shocked) is poor journalism, and just detrimental to everyone involved. Yeah, it's only "yahoo news", but these things float around the net pretty quickly, especially something of this nature (people complaining, people seemingly been dealt an unfair hand).
p.2 #16 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
I see a lot of people saying that the couple got what they had coming, but one thing I always wonder is why so many beginner "Pro" photographers start out with shooting weddings. This is one of the most importrant events in a persons life, do they even consider that? Are people so full of themselves that they really think they are ready for this event? I just don't get it.
Jun 27, 2012 at 03:19 PM
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p.2 #17 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
teebat wrote:
I see a lot of people saying that the couple got what they had coming, but one thing I always wonder is why so many beginner "Pro" photographers start out with shooting weddings. This is one of the most importrant events in a persons life, do they even consider that? Are people so full of themselves that they really think they are ready for this event? I just don't get it.
I won't speak for the other guys, but as I've been pretty vocal in the thread I'm going to reply.
I'm not suggesting "they had it coming" but if you're unprepared to pay for a pro and get your photos done free by a friend, you don't have the right to whinge to international media networks about it afterwards, what kind of a jackass do you have to be to NAME your friend, who volunteered to help you out, on a website that you know can be seen internationally and is probably page 1 of google now for his name.
If you were too cheap to buy a cake, a friend said "well if you can't afford to pay a pro cake maker, I enjoy baking so I'll give it a whirl" then, on the day, the cake didn't rise properly or something, your first thought wouldn't be "let's tell the world's media how Shirley fucked up our wedding cake" would it? You'd have to be a bell-end of MONUMENTAL proportions to think that was warranted.
But it's just photos right? Point and click, anyone can be a pro these days.....
EDIT : Turns out the friend happens to be the namesake of someone who won a reality TV show about pirates or something, so he's probably safe on the SEO front.....
p.2 #20 · Skightly OT: Wedding shooter loses memory card after a pub crawl
Chris Beaumont wrote:
If you were too cheap to buy a cake, a friend said "well if you can't afford to pay a pro cake maker, I enjoy baking so I'll give it a whirl" then, on the day, the cake didn't rise properly or something, your first thought wouldn't be "let's tell the world's media how Shirley fucked up our wedding cake" would it? You'd have to be a bell-end of MONUMENTAL proportions to think that was warranted.
....that photographer will still shoot weddings and make money. People have very short memories. 
