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Ken_Cravillion wrote:
I missed the first kiss last weekend. that was because the pastor was standing in front of them. I mentioned it to them during the formals and after those were done we faked one just to have. They didn't care.
In my ( repeated) experience, they never care about one shot unless it is one they particularly requested like a shot with a relative or friend. If they didn't rmind you at the time, then it's as much their fault as yours IMHO and couldn't be as important as they made out.
There is a lot I have discovered over the years that shooters hold as important that the couple are pretty much indifferent to.
Because I album plan, I have got a good sense of this over the years. So many times I have had couples look at each other and say " Meh, do we really want pictures of us cutting a cake?. Hmm, maybe better put one in because Mum will want to see it."
Poor Mike would perform a ritual suicide to restore honor to the family name if he missed the cake but the reality is, most couples would not be that fussed in any way Particularly if they really like the formals and other pics.
I remember shooting a whole ceremony once and realised something was wrong when I was up to about shot 45 on a roll of 36. Pulled up the rewind lever and there was no resistance. Opened up the camera back, Yep, Film hadn't taken up.
I said nothing, posed some shots after the ceremony with the celebrant and carried on.
When they came back I showed them all the pics. They said nothing other than how much they liked them.
When I admitted I stuffed the ceremony, they laughed. A lot.
Apparently She didn't want the ceremony photographed anyway. Thought she would be too nervous and look worried etc. He wanted it but when there were no pics, he thought she had told me no and she thought he conceded and did something she wanted.
We did the album plan and I said OK, what do you want to do about the ceremony pics I didn't get? They said Nothing. Happy with what we got, wasn't important anyway, we love the other pictures, all very good.
I offered them a wall print but they asked if instead I could do 3 8x10's of a standard cheek to cheek smile at the camera shot. One for them and each of the parents.
Not a problem in the world!
And that was it.
Another time I was doing video and didn't get the cake cutting. I can only assume I didn't hit the button right and certainly didn't check it was recording. The couple had been right pedantic pains in the arse and I was thinking that I would be doing this annoying job for free.
I edited it all up, they came in, I told them I had stuffed up and the first words out of the grooms mouth were " Did you put that song on the bridal waltz part we wanted?"
Again, didn't give a damn. I threw in a couple of extra copies of the tape and they didn't give me a seconds grief over it. Come to think of it, that was about the only thing they DIDN'T give me grief about!
I think it comes down to the fact that people look at the over all more than we do. As long as there are good pictures in the coverage, they don't sweat or maybe even think about what's missing.
Although one time I did have bride Take me to concumer court and one of her bitter grievances was I didn't get a shot of her mother and her aunt ( mothers sister) together. I said I have no record or memory of you asking for it. She said she didn't but thought I would because the photographer her brother had at his wedding 6 months earlier did. I asked what was wrong with that pic, she said nothing, she just wanted one of them together at her wedding.
Ummm, right.
This was the same bimbo that told the referee at consumer court " She didn't know what she wanted for her wedding photos but this wasn't it".
As she could not articulate anything more substantial than that as a grievance with my work and the referee looked at her album and concluded it more than fulfilled reasonable expectation and value for the money paid, case dismissed. I never had to say a thing! :0)
Yeah, Wait till you get one of them Mike.
Don't worry, do it long enough and you'll get more than ONE!
Especially these days!
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May 24, 2016 at 05:16 PM |
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