Or is it just me. I always post the pictures from each wedding in an online gallery, I think most of us do this. It's the first thing I do when I am done editing pics. I finish them in lightroom then export one set in websize then another set in fullsize. then I go right ahead and burn the DVDs and load them to the site. The bride gets the password and she can give it to whoever she wants. I want the bride to see the pictures first since it's their wedding and they usually feel the same way.
I did a wedding on the 4th, they left the wedding and gt on plane came back the next Sunday. While they were away the grooms sister sent me an email and asked me for the password. I waited until Monday to send it to her. Well when the grooms mother picked them up from the airport she told them that the sister and her sat down and typed in numerous passwords until they got theirs right! They hacked into her wedding pictures! How rude is that! The bride came over last night to view her album design and pick up her proofs and was almost in tears while telling me this!
So I guess now I should wait until they are home from their honeymoon before I load them, what do you guys do?
That's the problem, if you make the password too strong, then grandma can't get in to see them and you get phone calls asking you to remove the password anyway.
People usually have internet where they honeymoon, they could've seen them first if they wanted.
Depends on who wrote the check: bride&groom or his mother?
If the answer is NOT "groom's mother", then:
Send them a letter, preferably via an attorney, telling them that hacking to your web site is a criminal act (maybe federal criminal act, surely it's considered criminal at the international level). And that there's no difference if they sit and type passwords manually or run a cracking software (witch is just like typing different passwords really fast) - cracking is cracking.
Probably they're not super-crackers and that they did it believing it was innocent ("I just wanted to see my son's photos...") - so you don't have to follow-up on it (like court, police complaint and stuff) but it will scare her and teach her a lesson (it is, after all, a crime and she admitted to it).
But, most importantly, it'll show the bride that you're taking this seriously. You can't reverse this but you can make her feel better.
elikag wrote:
Depends on who wrote the check: bride&groom or his mother?
If the answer is NOT "groom's mother", then:
Send them a letter, preferably via an attorney, telling them that hacking to your web site is a criminal act (maybe federal criminal act, surely it's considered criminal at the international level). And that there's no difference if they sit and type passwords manually or run a cracking software (witch is just like typing different passwords really fast) - cracking is cracking.
Probably they're not super-crackers and that they did it believing it was innocent ("I just wanted to see my son's photos...") - so you don't have to follow-up on it (like court, police complaint and stuff) but it will scare her and teach her a lesson (it is, after all, a crime and she admitted to it).
But, most importantly, it'll show the bride that you're taking this seriously. You can't reverse this but you can make her feel better.
Brian Mullins wrote:
The problem is not with you it's with the grooms sister.
Couldn't agree more. You should not change what you do, it makes things more complicated. The password was obviously something common or relating to the family in someway. If you make it a bit more personal, ie, between you and the couple, like the name of the coffeeshop you first met, then it is easy to remember and harder to bruteforce.
Just create a 'Working' folder or a private gallery when you want to, then make it public when you're ready to. Zenfolio does this, I'm assuming most other programs do the same.
Can you make the folder unlisted? You can in smugmug - then change the listing status afterward. I guess you never would have thought of that before - didn't seem necessary! It is a bummer. I remember my parents opening my acceptance letter to college before I got home. I only applied to one school. Not the end of the world, but kind of a bummer.
I wouldn't do anything different. Not your issue.
I imagine the people who hacked in did not stop to think that the bride might want to see them first.
I do not see the problem - it is natural for people to be very anxious to see the pictures: some people are more anxious than others. Password guessing is a far cry from what one might consider hacking.
I hope the bride, her mom and in-laws liked the pictures.
RedWhiteandRed wrote:
I do not see the problem - it is natural for people to be very anxious to see the pictures: some people are more anxious than others. Password guessing is a far cry from what one might consider hacking.
I hope the bride, her mom and in-laws liked the pictures.
+1
These things happen so rarely that I wouldn't even worry about it. My password is the grooms last name. Who know the guy, can see the pictures. Never been a problem. If they want something stronger, they can choose to make it stronger. Shooting weddings I noticed that some brides cry a lot, sometimes for no reason at all. So I wouldn't even worry about it. You did your job, family affairs are not supposed to bother you.
