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Posted by Bob Ford on 04/16/06 21:49
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:15:53 -0500, "Steve King"
<steveSPAMBLOCK@stevekingSPAMBLOCK.net> wrote:
>"Bob Ford" <imagesinmotion@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>news:3n6542lsr8etdqjh44aoq0o0qg1bn7ntdp@4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:12:14 -0700, "Richard Crowley"
>> <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote:
>>
>>>"Bob Ford" wrote ...
>>>> BTW, are you really sure you want to get into wedding gigs?
>>>> I shot stills of weddings for many years and it was bad enough back
>>>> then but the way society has changed.....are you really sure you want
>>>> to put up with "Queen for a Day" and worse yet, HER MOTHER!
>>>> I wouldn't touch weddings with a long pole and in my 20+ years in
>>>> video I think I have taped 3 and those were all for personal friends.
>>>
>>>And some of us go so far as to become distant from friends
>>>who are planning weddings. Anything to avoid that burning
>>>hades of video production genres. Apparently Mr. Ford has
>>>more social sensibilities than some of us. :-)
>>
>> Last time I shot stills of weddings was over 20 years ago and our
>> society was very different then.
>> Once in awhile I would encounter a difficult bride but from the
>> spoiled brats I see now I would only do wedding videos if I was
>> starving.
>> Short of that I choose to maintain some degree of my sanity. Just
>> putting up with some of the retail customers we have in the video work
>> we do now is bad enough.
>> Bob Ford
>> Images In Motion
>> www.imagesinmotion.com
>
>I feel the same way; however, I have a new respect for wedding video
>companies. My video editor has been working with a wedding specialist, when
>the guy is overloaded. This guy has it down to a science. He has an iron
>clad contract, which details everything. He promises no quicker than 6-week
>delivery after the wedding, for which he charges a premium. Eight weeks is
>normal. If the customer doesn't deliver still photos by the contract
>deadline, as an example, for every day late the delivery date is moved a
>week. Half up front. Remainder before he turns the camera on on wedding
>day. (Wish all my clients paid so promptly.) Budgets from $3k to $5k with
>typically a half-dozen projects per year in the $10k range. He keeps three
>editors busy at FCP stations. I mean that it is a real business. Not my
>cup of tea, but his policies minimize the grief.
>
>Steve King
Steve:
In the days I shot stills of weddings I encountered a few fellow
photographers who refused to shoot weddings even back then.
My standard answer was "it's because you don't know how to shoot
wedding"
I had some policies of my own that worked very well for me and I made
good money shooting weddings. One of my policies was that when I
started arranging and shooting the formal altar shots, no other
picture taking was allowed. It was much more difficult to make copies
of photos back then and the formals were a large part of my sales
volume. I could shoot a full set of altar shots in a maximum of 15 to
20 minutes so we could move on to the reception.
I agree, not my cup of tea today but God bless those who are willing
to do it:-)
>
Bob Ford
Images In Motion
www.imagesinmotion.com
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