crystal-lite

<p>Isaiahh Linda,<br>

this post is about 4 years old. I have moved on since then.<br>

I appreciate you don't refer me to my surname.</p>

Well I have decided to take up this advice, and the above e-mail that I received, I bounced it yesterday.

It was an alias e-mail and have deleted it, and now I have another alias e-mail in position.

Thanks Guy's, you truly are a great help.

This is my very first scam e-mail for my photography business, though I have received other types of scam, mainly about

sad stories but not for my photography business.

Your suggestions are good. I'm going to reply; to only pay me what is required and that I'm not able to assist in any

transaction. And just see what happens. I will then end it there, then I'll let you know what happens.

Thanks everyone

I received an e-mail from a guy who lives in Malaysia requesting for a photographer for his wedding in October in the UK, I live in the

UK, the first couple of e-mails look at sound very genuine.

I agreed to a date and the costs. I then received this e-mail from him and it’s got the bells ringing for me a little and wonder if it’s

legitimate or just a scam?

This is the latest e-mail I received and wonder if anyone here had similar

e-mails and that you consider them a scam or genuine;

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Hello Anthony,   

 How are You doing.We feel so much excited that we have been recieving congratulatory messages,greetings and gift items etc,all to

wish us a happy marriage ceremony in advance.To our surprice,we had a cash gift of £4,000 from My fiance's uncle who is a bussiness

Man.He also sent his greetings wishing us a happy and a properious marriage ceremony in advance.     

I have decided to use the funds to sought part of our wedding expenses,we had your details forwarded to him to write the cheque in your

name.We made him understand that you are Our Photographer,please send us an email that you have recieved it.You will have it

cleared withing few bussiness days, after that,have yourself paid for your service charge.

We have also decided to put the event of Our wedding in a quality magazine which we shall share among friends and well wishers some

weeks after the party.I'm presently in negociations with three publishers with each of them yet to send a sample output of their quality

jobs in other make a choice of service. As soon as this is done,I will email you the publisher's given account details where the rest of

the money will be transfered to.   

We hope we can put our trust on You as we will want you to have your self paid for your services charge and help us make a transfer of

the rest to the publisher's given bank account.I and my fiancee shall be in UK in some few Weeks.  

Thanks for your understanding hospitality.  

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What conserned me was, the part that says;

As soon as this is done,I will email you the publisher's given account details where the rest of the money will be transfered to.   

We hope we can put our trust on You as we will want you to have your self paid for your services charge and help us make a transfer of

the rest to the publisher's given bank account.

Why would I be interested in a publishers account details and help him make a transfer of the rest of the money to their account.

What do you think?

Thanks for looking and for your comments.

To David, regarding the Buttonaire I too always request the buttonaire is in the right spot.

On this occasion it was not possible, for the tuxedos were hired one for the Groom and Best-

man and they were not allowed to pin, stick or anything else on the lapels shiny reflective

material. You will notice that both the best man and Groom are in tuxedos and the buttonaire

is not on lapel for that simple reason.

About a month I mentioned that I will be photographing a bride dressed in Red and had some

good advice and for me not to worry.

The wedding took place last Saturday and it turned out ok. There was rain at first but

brightened up later. The images have come out quite well and her being dressed in red

wasn't a problem as I thought it would be. A lot of the images are straight from the camera

while some have had a little Photoshop for cropping etc.

If you care to look at my portfolio, the photos are in the folder "Wedding: Red Bride".

Thanks for your advice.

Just finished photographing the Bride in red and here is one shot of the bride in red.

I will upload a few more when I get the time.

I use iPhoto and also CS 2.

There is a limit that you can see in iPhoto for it only has a slide bar for zooming in and out.

On a 17-inch monitor you can zoom into about 33 %.

In Photoshop you can magnify the pixels up to 1600% on a 17 screen.

On my screen, looking at both images, one in iPhoto and the other in Photoshop at 33% there

is no difference.

You can download into iphoto without Canon software.

iphoto will download Jpeg and even Raw images.

To manipulate raw images though, you need something better for post processing. Canons

DDP is very good.

Look at this link, the tutorials tell you all about Aperture.

http://www.apple.com/aperture/quicktours/

I use Aperture and Adobe Photoshop CS 2.

Edward is right when he says; They are different horses for different courses.

Folk got mixed up when Aperture was released, they thought it was on the same course as

Photoshop. Two different applications.

Professional photographers in the Mac world use Aperture not just for RAW manipulation

and post processing but as a powerful management tool, inlcuding for output in print,

books PDF and albums.

I use both applications hand in hand and they work a treat together.

A good story Justin.

quote: "hey man my sister is getting married and she wants you to shoot her wedding".

First words out of my mouth were, "no sir, call a pro photog". His reply, "well she doesn't

have the money for a photog and if you don't do it she's only going to have a friend show

up with their point & shoot". So, I agreed only after everyone understood that I didn't have

the proper equipment and that I've never shot a wedding before. I also wanted to make

clear that there would be no pressure on me as to how these pictures turned out. Everyone

agreed and said ok. end of quote.

Your honesty paid off and you were rewarded for it.

This happened to my very first wedding too. The shots came out wonderful and I was

viewed a professional after that. It was just the ticket to get me going.

Well done and I hope your shots have come out well. Look forward to see some shots.

Remember to build up your portfolio too for future weddings.

Written agreements help to prevent such misunderstands and arguments later. Even if it was

not possible to sign the contract at the time because of no package agreed, there should

have been some written agreement regarding the deposit.

It is indeed a lesson learned. Though you have been badly let down I would pay the deposit

back.

Thanks John, after seeing this image, I have nohing to worry about. It also shows Bride-maids

in white.

I used to jote everything down, not just the settings of the camera, but location, time etc.

Now it's imprinted in the brain, well most of the time and I still make some little mistakes.

After the responses in this thread I'm now looking forward to it too with a lot more

confidence. Thanks all. I'll let you you know how I get on and show a couple of images.

Thanks Danielle,

but the bride to be is English I think it's her personal choice. Perhaps because she has red

hair.

Here is a picture of her.

A much more realistic price. Slightly more expensive in the UK. It costs 219 British pounds

but free shipping.

$299 in the USA = 170 British pounds.

But add VAT 17.5 % for us brits it's more closer to 199 British pounds.

Still a bargain and at last my order has gone in.

I have an up-coming wedding to shoot on May 13th.

The brides dress is bright red (she has reddish hair too) Her bridesmaids are all white and the

groom has black tuxedo.

This is my first wedding where the bride is not dressed in white or cream or ivory.

Have you taken shots of a bride dressed in red? How have they come out? Is there nothing for

me to worry about? She wants colour and some black and white photos.

I shouldn't think it would put people off, it's part of a photographers service to provide the album. I'm too based in the UK and do quite a few weddings and always provide an album of their choice with the photos.

My next booking, the bride's father only yesterday asked me to see what album that I provide. In the UK I have yet to see a couple not ask about an album along with the photos.