diana_s2

<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>This question is mainly for newborn photographers. I want to give babies that really smooth silky skin in photos. any tips? do you guys use any presets or actions to achieve that?</p>

<p>A few weeks ago I something on Facebook about a photoshop action or overlay that changes the color of leaves, grass and what not. Now i can't remember what the name of it is. Does anyone know?</p>

<p>I'm trying to decide whether to get a target or an expo disc and i can't decide. I really want to avoid buying both. If any of you have used both can you give me your opinion?</p>

<p>It's also plausible and i can assume that the priest is just being an obnoxious person and could have and should have handled it differently.<br>

I'm just speaking from the view point of a bride. If my officiant made a scene like that I would have been extremely upset. Everyone is going to remember her wedding as the one where the officiant freaked out. <br>

Lets keep in mind that the whole event wasn't about the photographer or the officiant or even God, it was about the bride and groom. They paid the photographer to get beautiful pictures and they paid the officiant to marry them. They didn't pay for botched memories. </p>

<p>I'm pretty sure Michael and William are experienced in what goes on and what should be done on the photographers part at a wedding but i think you guys are missing the point. Regardless of if the photographer was wrong or not, the officiant should have shown more decorum and respect to the couple than to make a scene like that. Unless the officiant was blind i'm sure he saw the photographer/videographer setting up and could have asked the photographer not to stand/set up there before hand (its obvious the video camera at least was on a tripod) . There's a right way and a wrong way to handle a situation. The guy could have just whispered to the photographer and said "excuse me can you please move back a little the noise of the camera is a little distracting. Thank you." Instead the way he spoke was very harsh and volatile. Now instead of people remembering the wonderful wedding of the couple people will remember how the officiant wigged out on the photographer. People are outraged more at how the officiant reacted to the problem.</p>

<p>For a portrait session, I mean it would really depend on how many people i'm photographing (just 1 kid vs. multiple children or a whole family), but for 1 kid I would say 10-15 pictures.<br>

I just keep reading on message boards that the standard for a sweet 16 or wedding, 500 pictures I like the bare minimum you should give a client. Im trying to understand it. I feel like if that's what most photographers are giving their clients and clients expect a photographer to give 500 pictures and I tell a client sorry I only give x amount of pictures then the client will be disappointed, which I do not want. To me 500 seems like some arbitrary number. When a client asks you how many pictures they will receive what do you tell them?<br>

<br />I got married 6 years ago and I do not even remember the amount of pictures my photographer gave me (i just remember i received like 4 cds full of pics). Personally, all I wanted were the posed pictures of me and my husband, the wedding party, and immediate family (maybe a few of the ceremony). How many pictures would that come out to? At the most 100? I could have cared less about getting pictures of distant relatives and friends. Let me tell you, most of the friends at my wedding I barely see or talk to. Maybe i was just a different kind of bride. </p>

 

I photographed the wedding tonight

and I really have to give all you

wedding photographers A LOT of

credit. It definitely isn't easy. 8 hours of

standing, all the pressure, it's a tough

job. I'm not sure if this is something I'm

going to pursue at all, I'm a shy and

quiet person and I realize you have to

be more outgoing to do this type of

work. I'm less shy during portrait

sessions.

1500-2000 photos? Sheesh I must be

doing something wrong because I

didn't come anywhere near that

number. I have a question though. I

have read from some event

photographers on message boards that

if you don't have at least 500 edited

pictures to give to a customer then the

photographer didn't do their job. Now

for a big wedding I can understand that

number, for a sweet 16 or a small

wedding (small wedding party and like

40 guests) wouldn't it be

understandable to have like 350-400

pics? How many of the hundreds of

pictures actually get used by the

customer? I know I'm new and perhaps

I have a lot to learn, I'm just trying to

understand the pic count in the 1000s.

So what would you say is a good

amount of pictures to take of a 4 hour

sweet 16?

Thanks for you answers.

 

The sweet 16 was about 4 hours long.

The only posed shots were beforehand

with the family. I shot pics of the room,

decorations, cake, ice sculpture. Other

than that it was mainly the kids on the

dance floor and I asked people if I

could take their pictures. Most seemed

to enjoy it, some were a little iffy, some

asked me to take their pictures. I really

didn't want to be intrusive, and I felt a

little bad about asking people but its

why I was there really. I tried looking at

portfolios from other photographers

who did weddings and sweet 16s but i

found that most wedding pics were of

the b&g and the wedding party. I never

really see many shots of the reception.

I couldn't find that many pictures of

sweet 16's.

<p>Hi everyone, <br />First I want to say that i'm so glad i found this forum, i've learned so much from reading the other posts.<br />I'm a portrait photographer (mainly children and families). I was asked to photograph a sweet 16, which I did tonight and had a great time doing it. I was also hired to photograph a small wedding next week. I've never photographed a wedding before and I did tell the B&G up front. They weren't concerned about it, it's a second wedding for both of them and they just wanted to capture the moment and didn't want to spend a lot of money. The family of the sweet 16 party also knew that i am not an event photographer, but they are family friends so it didn't matter to them. I'm really grateful for the opportunities that i've been given to photograph these two events. Anyway, since I'm new to event photography I had some questions I was wondering you guys can answer:<br />1) If any of you are only a single photographer without an assistant how do you carry around your equipment during the event. backpack? fanny pack? vest? luckily i was able to keep my stuff in the bridal suite, which was locked during the event, but im not sure i'll be able to do this. Would it look weird carrying a whole camera bag around the whole event?</p>

<p>2) When you get pictures of the guests do you just go around asking if you can take their picture? I did this tonight, since most of the guests were kids they loved it. The adults were ok with it I think. Is it ok? is it too intrusive? Also the birthday girl was shy and seemed to avoid the camera and i felt bad because i didnt want to make her feel uncomfortable, but i was there specifically to photograph her during the event so i dont think there was any way around it. What would you do?</p>

<p>3) How many pictures do you usually take during an event? I took about 500 tonight. Do you just shoot everything and anything? I kind of felt like the pictures i was taking was getting kind of repetitive but i couldnt just stand around doing nothing.</p>

<p>Thanks for any advice you can offer.</p>