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ohsnaphappy wrote:
After the second went public, brides flocked to the second, referrals went to the second like crazy.
In an attempt to recover, the main photographer tried to rebrand but it didn't work. The main photographer suffered severe financial loss which led to a divorce. The main photographer now works a 9-5.
Without knowing all the details and going on this alone, sounds like the 2nd was a marketing genius and the first was terrible at it.
It takes a lot more than pretty/ stolen pictures to make a success out of nothing and put someone else in a hole.
I would think there was a bit more to it than just being this simple and straightforward.
We all learn and we all have to spread our wings sooner or later if we do show any promise.
I don't know in this story if the 2nd did anything immoral or underhanded, but the fact is IF he was able to establish a successful business and MAINTAIN it, then he would have anyway.
I did the same with a little Italian guy I worked for. I had done a couple of years of Tiddly winks low end weddings and the guy that worked for me doing Vids worked with another guy whom worked for the biggest, busiest studios in Sydney.
I went from doing a backyard wedding or 2 a month to 3 a week in the most upmarket expensive wedding halls around. I'd never seen anything like them before and I remember the first one I felt like I was in a movie or something. Never even knew such elaborate places existed!
I think I was pretty hard work for him for a while. Probably a lot greener than he bargained for and still very wet behind the ears. There were too many times when I thought I shot my last job for him but he stuck by me, showed me where I was going wrong and never belittled my fk ups when he had good cause to. He'd kick my arse, read me the riot act and then it was always
" Ok, now you know, never making that mistake again. No look so unhappy, Now no worries, Come, we eat".
Always a feed, wine and jokes once the rightful dressing down was over.
He was a brilliant bloke, helped me immensely even when I didn't work for him anymore and frankly, the guy will always have a place in my heart for the way he looked after me, kicked my arse when I needed it and was just a bloody nice fella.
After 3.5 years, I needed to grow outside his production line wedding photography style ( which I now fully understand) and do my own thing which was growing steadily. Even years after leaving him, I was HAPPY to get a call at 10:30 on a Friday night with him asking " Please Mr. David, I am stucked, can you make the job for me tomorrow?" It felt great to help him in a way after he had done so much to help me not just about photography, but a good deal of growing up and life skills.
He never would take back the studio key so I would get the details, run down there, grab some film out the fridge and go shoot the job next day for him. There were a fair few where a family member of someone elses wedding I had done was getting married and gave him a hard time about me shooting it so I did those with notice at least.
Doing those jobs for 3+ years felt like hard work and repetitive,but being requested massaged the ego and always felt much more like fun.
Even when I was so fed up doing 3-4 jobs a weekend, every weekend, I'd give my left nut to be able to go back to that time of my life again.
I would have never done and achieved what I have over the years if it had not been what he taught me in so many things both photographic and way beyond.
Nino was old enough to be my father but more importantly, he was my mate and a bloody good one at that.
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