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DannyBostwick wrote:
Your a fairly experience photographer, you hate pinteresty, trendy, nonsense. Your on a roll, then a few bridesmaids say, let's do the ________ shot. Okay, cool, I aim to please, sure. Then the rest of the day it's no, let's try ___________ instead. All of which are ridiculous and make you cringe. How do you politely tell her no, this is pointless? Is it pointless? How do you stay doing what fires you up when bridesmaids take over? We know what's timeless, we know what goes on the wall, what goes in the album, how do you relay that without coming off like a jerk? ...Show more →
Hey, I think we all get this to some degree. I try to distance it from it as much as possible.
1) If it's the bridesmaids, they'll generally be with the bride and she'll often dismiss it or look horrified in my experience. Or do something strange once and then be done with it.
2) I get any "arranged" images done in one lot. No revisiting through the day. So they can get all there "creativity" out of themselves in one go, and then go back to the wedding.
3) I try to keep these at a minimum as the knock on effect is sad. For example, last year we had 1.2 hours of group photos, then after that for the rest of the day all the guests would ask "Great, can we have a photo?". Perfectly reasonable, happy to do that. But she frequency speaks volumes. What actually happened at that wedding after the ceremony? The photos don't tell me much anyway. (To be clear, and relating to my point below, my process for taking this job was not very good).
4) Make absolutely sure you're on the same page with your clients. If they're great clients, they won't want the crap you speak of. You do this before you book them. To give you an example, I had an email this morning from a fantastic client who booked 18 months ago. She was just expressing how important her family were and the actual experience on the day and how this is what the photography is for her. To forget about any meaningless details - not exactly the same scenario, but for me I don't really spend any time with details these days. I pick up one or two if they are worthy. Whereas the pinterest bride will say "OMG quirky details wowowow!!!". But I already knew this from before they booked, we were perfectly aligned. Really excited about their wedding!
Just some thoughts. Good luck!
Edited on Aug 20, 2014 at 12:51 PM · View previous versions
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