RE: [Leica] re: most important person at a wedding?

[eric@jphotog.com]

B.D.,

You are so right. I refer J.B. to Nick Vedro, who shoots reportage
weddings and has to turndown over 300 requests a year! I'm betting he makes more than $20,000 per
wedding too. Hedoes all the big stars.

Sure he shoots for five minutes a few traditional posese, but that being
done he tells thebride to go enjoy her wedding and forget him.

Anyone who thinks all brides want the same thing is not going to be
terribly successful in thebusiness compared to the flexible ones who have the talent to do more than
glorified mugshots.

> I love the fact that YOU know what MY client wants...It's really too
> funny. This bride did not want to look like "royalty." In fact, she and
> her fiancé got really ticked off at the "wedding photographer" who was
> doing her best to make them look like that. This bride had already
> hired a "traditional" 2 1/4 wedding photographer when she saw an album
> of my stuff - which, truth be told, she then 'bought me' at a charity
> event where I had donated my services. She specifically bought me
> because she wanted what I shoot - NOT the traditional Cinderella crap.
> If a bride wants to be Cinderella, then by all means she should hire a
> photographer who's into turning silk purses into sows ears - or
> whatever. But given your repeated arguing with me about what my client
> - who you've never met, never heard of, and know absolutely nothing
> about, wants, I can't help but wonder how much you really listen to
> your clients when they tell you want they want. ;-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of JCB
> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 5:11 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] re: most important person at a wedding?
>
>
> At 04:37 PM 12/31/2003 -0500, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>
>>be sure to get plenty of photos of the brides
>>mother. and maybe a couple of the bride
>
>
> Uh, get too few absolutely outstanding turn a sow's ear into a silk
> purse
> photographs of the bride and the mother will have you for lunch! The
> mother
> doesn't want to see her real self, so make sure you Photoshop her
> extensively. And make sure the bride looks like royalty.
>
> If you do.... $$$$$$$$$
>
> Also, I've seen weddings shot journalistically. They were just OK. The
> clients liked the photographs, but in the end, missed having the
> traditional photographs. There should have been two photographers. One
> shooting traditional Hasselblad and the other shooting reportage Leica.
>
> JB
>
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