Hired a Professional - Now need some help with the results

[DiskoJoe]

Client is not happy because of out of focus overexposed images, noob error IMO.

On the other side, client reviewed the images on the photographer website and got pretty much what was advertised.

Like johnson said, he worked 7 hours for 150$ thats ****in cheap. you got cheap.

I took 7 hours to turn out this crap. Man, i could have taken pictures this bad in 20 mins (that's including editing time) and had them on their way.

 

[ababysean]

you are nuts. I would choose a cloudy day over a sunny in a heart beat! But then again I'm chasing kids so I need to have the light work with me, and using OCF outside with a toddler, yea FAIL!

 

[ghache]

As long as they know what the heck they are doing with natural light. That sh!t is HARD!!!

that **** is not that hard, you just have to choose your backgrounds and location carefully and shoot at a time where the sun is not high up. its not rocket science.

If a client ask for a shoot in a middle of a field at 1PM and other time and location is not an option, I make sure to let the client know that this is not the best shooting situation and explain them why. especially for Familly portraits with groups.

It's definitely hard to turn down a shoot in the middle of a field at 1pm when I can just use my flashes and take the shoot and produce excellent results. I could not do that shoot at 1pm without my flashes and produce anything I'd charge anyone a dime for. It's hard.

Your right, this is why i always have my flash in the trunk

 

[Robin Usagani]

How about 1PM sunny day in alaska during the winter time? LOL.. Always low sun when it is out.

 

[MLeeK]

Now that is a setting! The colors in the daytime sky in AK in the winter can be amazing and the shoot could be a whole lot of fun! You may well need flash because of those colors in the sky-or you are likely to have some very magenta subjects due to that color that happens when the sun is cutting thru the atmosphere. Or very blue depending on the day.
I lived in Fairbanks, AK for 3 years.

 

[katerolla]

Lighting: We use natural light for outdoor portraits, always have always will. If a portrait is requested on a boat in summer, it's going to be sunny. (shocking) If we are to use a flash on the right in the images on the boat it looks unnatural as the natural light is every where but on there faces, no thanks. As far as moving the boat, this thread is the first that has been mentioned. Bad placement of sun, I'm good but I can't move the sun (really cool if I could) the location was chosen by customer, and time was agreed on by customer.The sun is where it is, the boat was where it was. The bow pointed north, no matter what time of day the sun would be an issue. I was asked to recapture a portrait exactly, that is what was done, to the customers request.

This paragraph worries me a little, first of all any one who got a DSLR for Christmas could have taken those photos on auto setting, as a professions your photos must stand out for snapshots (in this case they do not)

Second,( Lighting: We use natural light for outdoor portraits, always have always will ) a flash is your sun, learn to use it

Thirdly (the location was chosen by customer, and time was agreed on by customer.The sun is where it is) Its your job as a professional photographer to educate the customer of the harsh sun and give alternatives times

 

[Josh66]

Sorry for not making that clear. It was recently we hired a photographer to duplicate an image from 10 years ago. Unfortunately we are all over the country, so a re-shoot may not be possible for years, until we are all together again.

I was hoping with the raw files that I could fix the exposure and sharpen the image. Also my mother is really complaining about the objects in the background so I'll edit those out as well.

Let me know your thoughts: Can I them to show up directly?

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Yeah, that's bad. It looks like the were taking pictures of the boat, and you just happened to be there, blocking the view of the boat. Even with RAW, those can't be saved.

 

[MLeeK]

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OK. You have pimped yourself out for SEO here sufficiently. How about you either decide you are a member and get over this posting your website everywhere or find another forum to post it all over?

 

[naptime]

oh when i saw his website Johnson Photography Custom photography and framing specialists. We offer custom portrait sessions at very reasonable and affordable pricing. Explore photography without Boundaries. Custom picture and art framing in the Sandusky Ohio area is also avai he has the same concept of this one, D a v i d B e c k s t e a d . c o m - site by Photoidentities one of the top wedding photographer.

dont forget to visit my site guys and drop some comments.. thanks!!
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OK. You have pimped yourself out for SEO here sufficiently. How about you either decide you are a member and get over this posting your website everywhere or find another forum to post it all over?

seriously. i've never seen so many old threads revived, just so you could post a link to your website in your comment.

come on man....

 

[naptime]

oh when i saw his website Johnson Photography Custom photography and framing specialists. We offer custom portrait sessions at very reasonable and affordable pricing. Explore photography without Boundaries. Custom picture and art framing in the Sandusky Ohio area is also avai he has the same concept of this one, D a v i d B e c k s t e a d . c o m - site by Photoidentities one of the top wedding photographer.

dont forget to visit my site guys and drop some comments.. thanks!!
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OK. You have pimped yourself out for SEO here sufficiently. How about you either decide you are a member and get over this posting your website everywhere or find another forum to post it all over?

oh sorry for that.. but i dont know what SEO stands for..

search engine optimization.

posting a link to your website in every post that you make, so that google sees that there are lots of links to you, thereby making your site relavant. but in the process annoying the people on the board with your constant self promotion.

i own a business too. but you dont see me linking back to it with every post i make.

come to think of it, it's not even in my signature and i've only mentioned it once.

it's plain rude when thats your sole purpose for posting or reviving threads. and on most forums, it will get you booted.