well i just got married this weekend and the photographer we hired left earlier then what we agreed upon in a written contract she produced. we hired her from 2-10:30 pm. she was there on time to take pictures of the girls getting ready but left around 2-2 1/2 hours early to end time due to her battery dying. in contract she was supposed to have an assistant but did not bring one.
what would your thoughts be?
Was this an actual professional photographer?
or someone with a DSLR who does it on weekends?
^^ wish i could like that
a photographer is one of the if not the most important parts of the wedding… it was one place that i didnt attempt to save money and its because situations like this
probably have to sue them and take to civil court
Well I guess if she was hired for 8.5 hours and stayed 6, ask her for a 35% refund
I can’t imagine she’d say no and rather go to court
I already know what Judge Judy would say, “what professional photographer doesn’t keep a back up battery?”
I’d ask for some sort of compensation. Not bringing a backup battery isn’t your fault.
Yea I do photography as a hobby and have a couple backup batteries :lol:
I would definitely try and get money back
Did she get all the shots you wanted? If she did and got the job done in less time, who fucking cares? Did she get shots of you and your wife and all that happy horse shit? Or are you just upset she didn’t take a horrible picture of you and your wife with wedding cake all over your faces and doing the hokey pokey?
She didn’t have a back up battery??? HAHAHAHAHAH. That’s like not having a fucking back up baseball at the All Star game.
we were going to give her the remaining balance after 10:30 with a tip also, but she took off with out it. we gave her a deposit that met her needs to get things started months in advance and thats all she has so far. Im afraid shes going to keep all the pictures and tell us o well… to add to the fun. we had to organize all of our pictures and get everyone situated.
Does not sound like a pro. Get your pictures before you start anything.
That’s pretty Rediculous that she didn’t have a back up battery
Sounds like you went with the lowest bid…
We got screwed by a photographer at our wedding too. Good luck with everything!
I can’t believe how much people pay for wedding pictures. Other than a pissing contest between broads, when are you ever going to actually look at them enough to get thousands of dollars worth of enjoyment?
The pics at the end are normally drunks making stupid faces anyways. If they shot the parties, ceremony, dances, cake, etc, don’t sweat it. See what they captured before you go on the offensive.
Ours was in and out, she included travel time from Rochester. It was all discussed up front, and she got every shot we wanted and we were happy. She wasn’t the low bid, we didn’t make her punch in, and we arranged a lot of shots on the fly. Just be realistic, companies work with cooperative customers.
I would definitely ask for money back.
Ive been the 2nd photographer for a couple weddings and i know that when we did it we were one of the last people to leave not to mention showed up hours early to set up flashes and such. Id tell them youre only paying for the shorter service they provided.
I would be upset. Having it in writing means she should have been there I always put it all in writing, if 2 people are supposed be there to shoot it should be in the contract.
I know when me and my wife have done weddings we bring Way more supply and battery’s then I think i will need. Ive never been in a situation that I thought boy am i upset i brought all this useless stuff. lol
I work with a wedding planner who arranges EVERYTHING which makes it nice. but ALWAYS ask around, Im sure even if you would have asked on here you could have gotten feedback on local photographers.
I know my own sisters wedding (I didnt shoot as i was in it) they payed a ton and the photographer never finished the job, it took suing him to even get the negatives so they could get them printed.
ehhh, you only get married once (hopefully)
that being said, our photographers were more than ive ever paid for a car (thats not saying much though)
including the photobooth (which was totally worth the extra $1k) photography came in at a bit under $5000. we couldnt be happier though, aside from the fact that it has taken them a while to get our wedding pics to us, but i can understand, good things take time
you get what you pay for, hopefully OP at least got a good price, as i would be pretty heated
I can not wrap my head around wedding pics being that much! I was thinking maybe 2k. WTF “You get what you pay for” Do they clean your house or something?
I think you need to play the situation carefully. At the end if the day, you paid for pictures and that’s what you want out if the deal. I used to be heavy into photography, and there’s a reason I never got into weddings. There is not enough money in the world to pay me to do a wedding. If you decide to get aggressive threatening to sue, etc, there’s a good chance there will be a “computer error” and your pictures will be gone forever. Start off being nice/understanding. Don’t make threats until you have a product.
To the people who gawk at the cost of wedding photos-- have you bought camera equipment lately? A REAL professional photog probably has 20k worth of gear (I know I did- my 2 bodies alone cost 6k). High end computers for editing. Software costs. The time you spend doesn’t start when you arrive and you hand over a completed product at the end of the wedding. There are hours and hours of editing that are needed. Uploading and managing the online galleries. Chasing bridezillas around is a job in itself.
Most people don’t gawk at paying 60+ dollars an hour to pay a grease monkey to change their brakes (anyone can be taught to change brakes)-- you cant teach an “eye” for a good photo. Also, id be willing to bet that the final breakdown of hours spent on each client at a wedding comes out to way less than 60/hr.
Here’s food for thought. Let’s say, using conservative numbers, that you spend 10 hours shooting at a wedding and only 10 hours total doing other things. That’s 100/hr if you paid 2k. Anyone who has had their car tuned at innovative pays more than that for “just pushing some buttons on the computer”. Specialized skills cost money.