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Hello,

I've done similar. You can take look at some samples which are on my site. I'm not sure if you'll get any ideas from what I have shot but my couple wanted very little flash and something that will be "different" and antique. Good luck, not only it will be fun it will be a great addition to your portfolio.

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I cater to NY, NJ, PA etc. You can feel free to check out my site at www.AMphotoNY.com

However...there are a lot of great photographers here from NY and NJ that I know...what you can do is look at some posts and randomly choose the people who have their location next to their names - click on profile and most of them have links to webpages.

I'm sure you can find some exceptional photographer here.

Very best of luck.

Yes, I love Mary's approach. You give them through the process of answering by providing with choices instead of just asking questions and having them ponder what to write. Lovely idea! Much easier for the couple, much more info for you.

Thanks!

This forum is first of all to ask questions and opinions of others, so I see nothing wrong asking fellow photographers for their opinion. It is our choice to ask here so if you wish not to help, do not bother looking into this thread. The sole purpose of this forum is for discussion and advice not for what you�re doing. Nice of you to correct us but PLEASE! Be at least a little polite � are you like that with your clients as well?

Everybody, thanks for all the info.

I have ordered the regular book bound - I don't love the cover - It's too shiny for my taste but I had brides rave about it although at the end less of them order that book - as I would have thought from their initial reactions.

I ordered the matt paper and I'm very happy with that aspect. The pages are very thin which is one setback of this book -a true magazine style.

I'm very interested in coments about the EX version as I would think it would be better and probably will order in the future the EX not the one I have.

Reek

Thanks!

I appreciate your thoughts and help. I will work on getting better results or rather consistent good results. The problem is that nothing has changes on my part (that I'm aware of, of course, human error is always possible) and this is by far the worse example of printing I ever seen done and I never printed in Wal-Mart or the likes.

Ok, so I've posted this question elsewhere but did not receive the

help I hoped for. Mainly maybe becasue I myself wasn't clear as to

what I wanted to know.

Here's the scenario. I have been printing through a lab and was

pretty happy with the results. I started off with color corrected

prints, and was happy, then I went through new monitor, calibration

and getting prints without lab manipulation and was also happy.

Now, last batch of prints are terrible... Dark, flat, muddy and washed

out...

I attached original files - which I did not tamper much with in PS

besides raw conversion, and those exact ones were sent to the lab - in

my other post which can be seen here:

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00Ga8g&tag=

People suggested that my monitor is to bright, hence dark files BUT

would a little darker files yield results that are muddy, washed out

and flat? Would the problem lay somewhere? If so, where? Have I done

something wrong this time (which I cannot pin point) or is it

something that might have gone wrong on the printer's part?

Any advice on this subject? Please bare in mind that I'm not the most

technical person and go "easy" on me...

Thanks,

That's what I thought, like mentioned earlier I have not done anything to the images except wb in capture one and saving those as jpegs. But what you have done definately works better...tnx!

Oh, I forgot to ask, is the picture on right greenish in tone and the picture on left brownish?

I see not many people answering me. I guess this problem is silly, but I cannot find anything I did different, except my pictures being dark, that would yeld the results I've gotten from lab. I'm first looking into my faults to determine if I can do something better.

Like I've said I've gotten consistent results from this lab in the past, I was happy, everything was fine. I'm frustrated, I see no help or even raising questions that could help me solve this issue here...

Anyway, I would love to show you end results but if I scann them, it will pick up saturation and contrast so there's no point...

Cheers and thanks for the comments and help.

Perhaps I was not clear, those are the oringal files I've sent...of course not the final outcome - the pictures I agree might be on a darker side but that might be just my preference...

1: must be that my monitor is too bright + 2: I like a little dark images = very dark, flat images when PRINTED. However, when I printed samples on my inkjet they came out FINE, color wise, depth wise...

so what could be the actuall problem? Is it sole darkness of the files?

Sorry, I was at work and did not have any samples to post. Below are two examples of the photos I've sent.

Like I said before, I never had this problem with this or any other lab. The photos were not tampered with a lot so I don't really know where the problem could be that they see it as muddy and print as muddy...

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Ok, so I received a batch from lab and it was terrible. Muddy,

"washed-out" colors and very very flat! I used this lab before and

results were fine, I was happy with them.

I called and spoke to a person in the lab, he says the pictures look

like that on his screen (muddy, flat and washed out). The pictures do

not look like what he described on my (calibrated) monitor, nor my

uncalibrated monitor at work, nor on client's screen and few other

photographers.

The person at the lab said that it might have been something I did

wrong (re-set my calibration) but how can everybody see the pictures

normally but not the lab? Am I missing something? The pictures were

all shot raw and sent to the lab as jpegs. I did not do much prost

processing except ones that needed to be B&W and some sharpening.

The lab is willing to work with me, but I'm just wondering maybe some

of the experts here would be able to tell me more about such problems?

David,

Thanks, I guess it might pass for me as well in couple of years, like in 15 maybe.

I think it was A brother and sister not HIS brother and sister.

I guess what my "problem" is that I care so much about how clients react (not that this is extraordinary ﾖ I know that most of us care greatly), but for me it's nerve racking when I need to give finished product more so than when shooting the wedding. Hence, my initial reaction and nervousness during the post processing.

I must be honest. I don't like one wedding I recently did, venue was horrible, terrible light, colors (walls were dirty yellow and all pictures look like wb is wrong, although it's the way it should be), tiny place with no windows, no decorations and much (much!!)more I care not to get into as for respect to my clients.

I just hope (no -I really wish) that I'll grow into liking some of those photos just like I do with other weddings. While my last wedding nad no PS work except change to B&W, this one NEEDS a miracle :)

Are you ever unhappy with your work? Technical or aesthetic aspects,

or even big time screw ups. How do you handle the work flow, the

"fixing" of your work � making boring work stand out, artistic? Do

you analyze the work as client may see it realizing that it may be

make them happy although your satisfaction isn�t full? Or is your

satisfaction ever FULL, not ever thinking that you could have done MORE.

Do you ever freak out BEFORE the client sees the work? Or have you

ever once, was relieved after you gave work to client that they loved

it yet you weren�t happy about it?

To make it short; how do you judge your work? Is it reflected first

in your own happiness then client satisfaction, etc.?

I�m having a very hard time not to bash my own work to the point of

freaking out.

That's bad. Never heard of bride falling, must have been horrifying!

I had "great" weather, sunny, not-even-one-cloud... 2h shoot of young couple just before their ceremony, started at 11:30am. Couple locations, where some lacked any shaded area...boy was this challenging.

Anyway, wishing you a lot more of good days than the lazy ones (not challenge wise, challenge is good!)

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Keep us posted how it adds to your business, good luck.