[Leica] First wedding

[michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema)]

Thanks Ted,

I actually enjoyed myself very much. But this was a very friendly and 
nice couple. I hope to do a few more but realise they won't be all like 
this one. Also the pay is not as good as it was in your times. It more 
looks like the photographer is paid less when compared to all the other 
people. Which is strange because the pictures are they will have left 
after 20 years. Although i don't make an album, I just give them a dvd 
with pictures, I still have to edit them all and do small adjustments to 
make them printable. Takes about the same amount of time as the actual 
shooting took.


Cheers,

Michiel Fokkema

Ted Grant wrote:
> Michiel Fokkema showed:
> 
>>>> Hi,
> 
> 
>> Not really my first wedding, but my first paid wedding.
> 
>> A few pictures of a  very enjoyable day with a lovely couple.
> 
> 
>> http://michielfokkema.wordpress.<<<<<
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Michiel,
> 
> Very well done through out. Interesting depth of focus and sharpness
> accentuating the smaller elements. There are a couple of candids I
> particularly like.
> 
> Weddings through all my years were and are the biggest pain in the butt you
> could imagine. I began a charging method of doubling the price every time I
> was asked just to deter people from asking..
> 
>  
> 
> In other words, back in the early '50s I charged $25.00 dollars for a white
> album with 12 B&W prints. Yep hard to believe but that was usually a friend
> and what everyone figured was not bad for a beginner and some pros.
> Eventually I got away from them until I was hired as a staff photog and
> found myself every Saturday thrust into this horrid assignment of hell!
> Usually 2 a day!
> 
>  
> 
> When I began my own business I swore I'd never do another wedding, OOPS!
> When I finally relented my deal was..Money talks! It would be $1000. which
> they would pay me at the end of day in cash!! And I'd give all the B&W film
> to the best man with instructions where to have it printed and get the
> album. I had nothing to do with it period. Didn't phase them, people still
> kept coming a $1000 a pop and I did no processing or printing. 
> 
>  
> 
> Too many and it became a big pain in the butt again, so I upped the price 
> to
> $2000 with me still turning over the film at the end of the day to the best
> man and have a nice honeymoon. Damned if they still didn't keep coming. So 
> I
> doubled it to $4000 and that deterred many, but we all know when people are
> so romantically inclined to marry, money doesn't count. :-)  Finally I just
> cut it off as I found them more stressful than covering a war scene!
> Mother-in-laws and twitchy brides AAAAAAAAAAAAahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! :-)
> 
>  
> 
> However me old son you've done an excellent covered with interesting 
> images.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> ted
> 
> 
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