This thought is long time in coming. For a few years now I have lost a few clients and then ran into them on the street. The normal exchange of "how you doing" and such but then it turns to "how's the photo work" and the conversation heats up. They tell me how they had a friend who just bought a new digital camera and wanted to do there family or wedding photos. Well, lets just say they were not happy. These clients, after using a photographer who has spent most of there adult life thinking and breathing photo's, now has hired someone who just wants to try being a photographer. Here to day, gone tomorrow.
As I get older and think about this, I am glad I learned during the film days. Digital is the easy persons way out of a bad day shooting. Film, manual settings and focus gave us the insight to look at things and know what is right and wrong. I hear more digital shooters say, " I can fix that in photoshop" I can see that on some photographers headstone in years to come.....
The one I like the best was my wife came home and told me about a person she used to work with. They hired a photographer who has been around for about 2 years. They did his daughters wedding and he was a friend of the grooms. Once the wedding was over, it took 3 months to get the previews back and there were only 60 photos on the CD and he said most were out of focus or something else was wrong. The "contract" said they would recieve 150-200 previews. Small claims court is in there future. And it cost them $600..... My wife asked why he did not ask me to do the wedding..... friend of the groom....
This is what makes me so proud of my wife, she told him "Randy has been doing weddings for 30 years, he learned on film and knows what to take at weddings and what will look the best, he does not do this as a sideline, this is his job."
It may have taken me 48 years to find Lee, but I am sure glad I waited.
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