Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:34 PM 1/3/01 -0600, Henry Ambrose wrote about my methods: >Sounds like you found a good little crack and filled it quite well. >I like the idea that you give them the film. It seems appropriate >although I'm sure many wedding guys would scream. The very few weddings I >photograph I do the same way. They are happy and its simple for you. Yes, Henry, it is in interesting and enjoyable niche. In the way of clarification... I know of photographers who shoot a wedding and just hand over the unprocessed film. I never hand over unprocessed film to a client. I have the film souped and printed (and more often now scanned to CD for my later web/promo use) at my local lab. I place the 4X6 'proofs' in a Pioneer Wedding album. I then remove any prints and negs from the whole that would reflect poorly on my reputation long before the client ever sees the end product. The thought of my work being processed at Walmart or that the one shot on any particular roll which may not have been properly flash synched or something like that being out there in the public with my name attached to it is the stuff of nightmares and is what decided me to process and weed the negs I shoot before the client ever sees the finished product. We're only ever judged by the last work of ours that someone has seen, eh? Carpe Luminem, Michael E. Berube