Oops - A lesson for budding wedding photographers perhaps

A lesson for budding wedding photographers perhaps: link

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More a lesson for brides and bridegrooms to be...

Don't entrust anything important to morons.

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I learned an important lesson on the very first wedding I photographed....

....It was back in the film days (around 30 years ago) and 2 people I knew asked me if I would take the official photos of their big day. I was very careful and methodical, taking way more shots than I should need from every angle conceivable, keeping my nerves under control the whole way. After the formalities were over they invited me to evening the reception where I finished off the last film (6 x 36 exposures that day) and then joining in the celebrations with a few drinks.

The next morning I went to package up the films for processing, only to find No Films in the camera bag. I literally ran round to the reception venue to find the owners sweeping everything off the tables into bin bags - the table I had been sat at hadn't been cleared yet, and the feeling of relief to see those 6 black canisters with grey tops sitting amongst the ballons, glasses and spent party poppers, is remembered to this day.

And guess what, of all the weddings I photographed since that day I never had an alcoholic drink at one of them

As Chris says "Don't entrust anything important to morons."

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LennyBloke

Don't entrust your wedding photography to 'budding professionals' It beggars belief that he thought his wallet was the safest place says one who has just lost his wallet.

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Ken

More to the point, isn't the first thing you'd do is back-up the images, either at the reception or immediately on arrival back at the office/home?

I do this as a matter of course, and I never do anything as important as a wedding; it's just part of my work-flow.

Yes, it's the leaving it there for a week that made me think he was a moron.

Any one of us can make an honest mistake, no matter how apparently unbelievable. But the not bothering for as long as a week, for something as important as someone's wedding, just beggars belief.

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Why did he take the memory card out of the camera in the first place???

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My Names Alan, and I'm a lensaholic.
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Perhaps he was planning to drop it off at the developers?

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So they didn't pay him, yet expect professional service? It's a shame and he's a douchebag for being so careless with his friend's pictures they had asked him to take, but they are the ones who took a gamble on their wedding photos.

They did take a gamble, for sure.

But I don't think it follows at all that if you're not paid, you shouldn't be expected to give a professional service.

If they really were doing him a favour by letting him do their wedding, then effectively they were paying, and if he's a budding pro, he should be professional whether or not it's actual money he's getting.

They've sure paid now.

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The other thing is... *one* memory card?????????

Just one?? How many pictures did he take for goodness sake?

I suppose you can get a lot of JPGs on a biggish card. But the pattern is starting to fit, isn't it.

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