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I arranged a family shoot with a local professional photographer for my mam's 65th birthday and it was a complete disaster:
1. For someone with her own bairns and has done a lot of child portrature, she had very little rapport with kids. She kept trying to pose our 22 month old and only had one prop which our tot helped herself to and the photographer tried to get back off her. She posed the kids back to back even though the eldest is nearly six and there is a foot in height difference - it might look endearing with twins but it just looked ridiculous with our two. All the shots of our eldest she is pulling really OTT, 'say cheese' smiles.
2. She didn't adjust the lighting between shots of me (6'2") and our youngest (2'6").
3. Again, she posed me standing side by side with my wife* who is over a foot shorter, even after I suggested sitting down.
4. She only took one or two shots per 'pose' and checked it on the review screen before moving on: no shooting bursts or trying to get those natural candid shots between poses. I could understand keeping the images down if she was using medium format film, but she was shooting in digital ffs.
5. To cap it off she lost three quarters of the images and wanted to bring us in for another sitting. Apparently the card 'corrupted' and the backup copy on her PC was 'lost due to a power cut'. :roll: Both myself and the brother in law work in IT so we offered to recover the files, but she refused.
[*Nee pics, literally.]
School photographers seem to be cut from the same cloth - do they sit the kid down, ruffle their hair into a mess and ask them to say cheese?
:roll:
Considering the quality of the amateur work out there (eg on here, Flickr), it's amazing people like this can make a living out of photography! Fuck me, it isn't rocket science - or is it?
I arranged a family shoot with a local professional photographer for my mam's 65th birthday and it was a complete disaster:
1. For someone with her own bairns and has done a lot of child portrature, she had very little rapport with kids. She kept trying to pose our 22 month old and only had one prop which our tot helped herself to and the photographer tried to get back off her. She posed the kids back to back even though the eldest is nearly six and there is a foot in height difference - it might look endearing with twins but it just looked ridiculous with our two. All the shots of our eldest she is pulling really OTT, 'say cheese' smiles.
2. She didn't adjust the lighting between shots of me (6'2") and our youngest (2'6").
3. Again, she posed me standing side by side with my wife* who is over a foot shorter, even after I suggested sitting down.
4. She only took one or two shots per 'pose' and checked it on the review screen before moving on: no shooting bursts or trying to get those natural candid shots between poses. I could understand keeping the images down if she was using medium format film, but she was shooting in digital ffs.
5. To cap it off she lost three quarters of the images and wanted to bring us in for another sitting. Apparently the card 'corrupted' and the backup copy on her PC was 'lost due to a power cut'. :roll: Both myself and the brother in law work in IT so we offered to recover the files, but she refused.
[*Nee pics, literally.]
School photographers seem to be cut from the same cloth - do they sit the kid down, ruffle their hair into a mess and ask them to say cheese?
:roll:Considering the quality of the amateur work out there (eg on here, Flickr), it's amazing people like this can make a living out of photography! Fuck me, it isn't rocket science - or is it?
