Ah hell, Ale. Didn\'t mean it condescendingly at all! But it is written word and open to interpretation, which is the whole point of this thread whether it\'s \"fantastic!\" or \"pure crap!\".
Was going to post here, but didn\'t want to go OT.
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Hi Ale,
Just a possible viewpoint here...
lisy78 wrote:
With regards to the JPG images don\'t worry, they were all salvageable, If you haven\'t already, I would suggest you think about what happened to make sure you understand where the failure was, so you can avoid it happening to you in the future... I\'ve learned a LOT from deconstructing problems I\'ve had during an event.
The one observation I would like to make is that I personally don\'t necessarily go for the intentionally titled look across a lot of images and I couldn\'t help but notice that it was pretty prevalent in some of the speeches and other reception photos. You framed the images wide enough that I had absolutely no problem using the imgaes, I cropped them in a little and untilted them.. so no worries, but I thought you might like to know about this stylistic preference for next time I ask you to shoot with me.
Thanks again for a fantastic job awesomely done, I look forward to working with you again.
Ciao!
Alessandro\"
I dunno but that sounds pretty reasonable to me.
I\'ve totally gotten the cold shoulder from that photographer since sending the email.
Personally I would have been THRILLED to get a similar email... but obviously we\'re not all the same.
That was pretty wordy for two basically non-issues, since each was resolved. (yeah, I get they were both probably time consuming and a bother, but it comes across a bit heavy handed)
\"If you haven\'t already, I would suggest you think about what happened to make sure you understand where the failure was, so you can avoid it happening to you in the future...\"
You think he hasn\'t already done this? There are no inflections or tone to the written word. This phrase could be read quite sternly. Some people have to pound their point in when one already knows they\'ve screwed up. Most likely not what you meant, but could be taken that way.
Asking him to straighten the tilted shots in post would have efficiently fixed the problem, and he\'d be aware of your preference. Less work for you and he\'d remember that for the next time.
Just my take on it. If a bride told me all the things she like about my work, then went on to berate me for what she didn\'t like, what part of that do you think I\'m going to be hearing and remembering?
Some things are so much easier on the phone. \"I\'d really like working with you again... would you take notes for me on a couple things I\'d like to have done for the next shoot?\" Hit him with what to improve on, then note the things he did right.
Artists are such a damn temperamental bunch, eh?
Linda
ps --- yeah, I get too wordy also.
Jul 06, 2012 at 02:08 PM
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