Photo Snobbery

LeeAndra

LeeAndra

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I have to say something here so I don't get in trouble or hurt someone's feelings.

A friend of a friend got married recently and just posted something on her FB page so everyone could see the pictures. Of course, I always look at people's pictures, so I hopped over. I knew that she spent between $500-600 on photos.

Oh my word.

These pictures are AWFUL. The handful of close up shots of the dress, bouquet, rings, etc. are obviously blurry while the 20+ close up shots of the back of the BMs' hairdos (?!) are spot on. There was obviously no retouching as one of the BMs is unfortunately sporting a big pimple on her cheek. The black and whites are mostly just grey, and the color versions were taken with the on camera flash so the bride's naturally pale face is completely washed out in several pictures. The only 'artistic' license the photog took was when she placed a huge white vignette, a la 1985, around some of the bridal portraits.

I honestly gasped as I looked through the pictures. The bride really is a beautiful gurl, and I can't believe how bad some of the photos make her look.

Of course, I'm not going to say anything to her abt it & I realize she and most of the other people who attended her wedding think they're just fine... but still. SHEESH. I can't fathom paying someone $500 to take 150 pictures with their point 'n' shoot camera + maybe an hour of 'processing' with something like the included Canon/Nikon software and a bunch of one touch photo effect buttons.

*shew* I feel better now. I know y'all have to look at pictures the same way I do. I fully admit to my photo snobbery.
 
Yowsah! That sucks!

I'm a photo snob too. Sometimes I have to remind myself that not everyone likes the style or techniques that I do, and that usually stops too much of the snobbery.

But I probably would've felt the same way, lol.
 
I feel like this when I look at my own wedding photos lol!! Back then I didn't know any better..sure wish I could go back and do them over :)
 
I am the same way. A daughter of a friend is getting married in May and she posted her Engagement photos on FB. All be it they were done for free, they really are crappy! The poses are awful! The photographer (I also know) just looked like she did them for free. I have seen her do better.

I was looking for a photographer to do photos for our family and a friend of my SIL gave us her card. I went to her site and was extremely disappointed!! Just not good. So I know I am a photo snob. And it is not because I am so great (cause I still have a lot to learn in taking pictures) but because I see all of you and how awesome you guys are that I am spoiled!!!
 
I was really disappointed in my wedding photos. The photographer did stupid things like not scoot over to the side a couple of feet so my last 3 bridesmaids could be in the ceremony photos instead a lightpole, all the pictures of my dh with his best man, the best man's eyes are closed and the absolute worst part, all the photos of us with the horse and carriage, he never once got a picture of the entire horse. I have a ton of pictures of a horse's butt! I was so furious about that. I complained though and they gave me some money back, but still, this guy was not good. He was someone who just worked for the large photography place, I wish I had known they had multiple photographers and some were new. This guy never directed anyone, he would whisper to me what he wanted and I would have to round the people up and set them up. I said I wanted some not staged and set up photos and that I wanted some more artistic shots, I got none. Every thing was everyone stand here, snap. Ticked me off. I wish I had known to make my preferences more known then.
 
Unfortunately, there are a lot of bad photographers out there! And, with digital cameras making it easy to go into business, there are more and more every day. As a (sometime) pro photographer, I am a total photo snob and wince at a lot of the stuff I see posted on forums. On the other hand, I see work that blows me away all the time too -- so there's just a huge range of talent and you have to make sure you know what you are getting!
 
When I was getting married, I couldn't afford a wedding photographer and was panicing because I wanted wedding photos. Not wanted, needed. We had someone tentatively lined up, a friend of my DH's, who dabbled in photography along with her hubby. They had agreed to do it, but when he couldn't get time off from work for it, she also declined because she didn't trust herself to shoot such an important day by herself.

My SIL got married the month before DH and I, and RAVED about her photographer. How they were the best, and I should book them. I didn't because I thought the couple were really snobby. And I was SO glad that I didn't! The photos were taken indoor, under fluorescent lights, so they had this grainy yellow hue. In order to see the full wedding party, they had to stand at the back of the room (!), and then in the photo you could see the front of the stage with all the electrical cords hanging off, the plug-ins and the first few rows of chairs (not nice chairs), and the party was so small you could hardly see their faces.

Then when they did outdoor pictures, we all went to this really pretty park. They put us all against trees and stuff, and the shots would have been *okay*, not very unique, just a straight on shot, as all the others were. BUT they took them with their backs to the PARKING LOT AND HIGHWAY. Ummm, if the photographers would have stood on the other side, their backs would have been to the park, flowers and the river!?!???!! When my SIL got her photos, she gushed on and on about them, and how I was going to regret not getting them to take my photos, bwahahah.

In the end, our friend pulled through, agreed to take our photos, and she did a wonderful job!! I love them. She didn't do any photo retouching because she didn't have the equipment, but that's fine. The photos themselves are beautiful, and if I want to change them to b&w, I just scan them (they were taken on film), and change it myself. Best part was that she gave them to us as a gift, so they were free!!
 
All I can say is sometimes people don't know better and what's done is done. If she seems happy with them, then oh well just thank your lucky stars that you didn't pay for them!

And yeah isn't it funny how some people have no pride, while others like my sister made almost no money and gave herself an ulcer (not literally) over her wedding shoots. After having her daughter she gave it up for the stress.
 
So my indoor wedding got rained out. :( (Let's take a mmoment of silence for the wedding that might have been)

We got married instead at my parent's Family Life Center at church, which is basically a big gym, right? So my mom's friends showed up and made it really beautiful, BUT in the pictures, you can see the basketball lines on the floor and the big maroon stripe behind us. :( I tried to get the digital images a couple of years ago, but he went out of business.

But LeeAndra, seriously, you'd think in 2009, ANYBODY who gets paid to take wedding photos could at least take clear shots of the bride!
 
joelsgirl said:
But LeeAndra, seriously, you'd think in 2009, ANYBODY who gets paid to take wedding photos could at least take clear shots of the bride!
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You know, you'd think so, but I was helping a friend look for a photographer for her wedding and I could not believe how many photographers there were who had NO business charging for what they were doing. Seriously, just bad, bad stuff. :thumbdown:

Plus a lot of the websites were really bad too! Like either they had very few photos of their work or their websites looked like they were designed back during the early days of the internet. And this included some of the photographers who's photos actually DID look nice! I couldn't figure out why you'd want to send such an outdated image to potential clients. I think I was actually a bigger snob over the websites than the photos. :D
 
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