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I have seen the same trend where people who payed the new guy with camera or relative/friend etc come to us because they wanted better results. This has been happening with Wedding, High School Seniors, Prom's and even family portraits. In fact we had two schools this year who's students came to us for their Prom photos instead of going to the "company" who was contracted for the events. It was very cool seeing the mass of student coming in and out of our studio before going to their prom.
With Weddings it's a little different, many of those who have come to us were part of a Wedding where a low baller was hired, they saw how poor the work was and/or didn't like the attitude of the person taking the shots and so they came to use.
I should say however that not all of these guys are cheap, there are some with great selling skills that shoot horribly. There is one person in town who has all the bells and whistles, cool flash website, his own blog where he speak about himself in the second person. He call himself "On of the top photographers in Southern California". He gets people to pay around $5K for a Wedding, which I admire. However I have been contacted by a bridesmaid that was in a Wedding he shot last month, she had the password to her friends Wedding photos. They were poorly composed, and very under exposed. The photographer also yelled at the Wedding party because their joking around was preventing him from getting the bride and groom in a romantic mood so he could take the shots he needed to get.
Out of the 20 or so new photography businesses that has spung up in our area the last 5 years only 2 of them have lasted more than 2 years.
rocketpop wrote:
You know, it has pros and cons. We shoot way, WAY more now than we ever did and we sell much more per customer. Each year or so we get a couple of newbie photographers in town that practically give their services away, and they eat away at some of our market. They almost never stick around (and we frequently get customers who went, didn't like the results, and come to us--and I know the other established photographers have the same thing happen).Even though they never stick, there is always a new one, or ones, to take their place. That makes it harder, but again--with digital, we shoot more, we experiment more, and we sell more, so that has more than made up for it at this point.
I think Weddings have taken a bit of a harder hit. A lot of people have a relative do it, and a lot of those people end up very disapointed. It is kind of amusing, actually, because recently we've had a spike in people getting remarried who have said, "I had my uncle/aunt/brother etc" do it last time, and won't make that mistake again!". I constantly see very expensive cameras with very, very inexpensive lenses at weddings. People are shooting with something like 1d series and a 28-135 lens F5.6 lens in terrible light, and I just have to shake my head....Show more →
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