OK, here is the scoop. I was pressured hard core into using the photographer that I did. He is the husband of a girl that Chris and I went to school with and the minute and I mean the minute we went public with our engagement, she pushed him at me.
I looked at his webpage and I was very unimpressed. He would later tell me, "My page sucks." It wasn't the page...it was the work. The wedding pictures on there were not good at all. The composition was bad...and just bad. I didn't say one way or the other, I just put it off.
Then crunch time came, we decided to do the real wedding instead of courthouse and I asked her if she knew someone that could make a cake for me. She said her husbands (the photographers) sister could, and once again pushed her husband at me. I love her don't get me wrong, and I would push my husband too if the situation was reversed, but then he gets on the phone and it just went from there. He talks a good, high pressure sales game, but his work was a disappointment.
K, so he gave me a deal $400.00 instead of $700.00 or whatever, but he didn't get one, not ONE single picture of me at the alter facing Chris. He only got ONE picture of Chris with his hat on, everyone else got lots more. He didn't edit the redness out of my skin at all. Granted he cut my price...but does that mean I shouldn't get good pictures? That I have to look at my blotchy red skin for all time?
Then here is the kicker. I wasn't happy to begin with right, I didn't want the guy from the start, and I post pictures that other people took that I liked better than some that he took and I say as much. He FLIPS OUT. The pictures I liked better were with Chris in his hat and just absolute joy on both our faces. They are too bright because the small camera's activated his big flashes, but he FLIPPED OUT because someone else captured what I had been paying him to capture and he failed to do.
His main thing was that the lighting in them was bad, well no shit, but lighting isn't everything. They captured the spirit I wanted and the hat!
He would send me these long ass emails bitching about how I should be grateful because he gave me a discount and whatever, but you know what? I'm the bride, and though there were a few great pictures (of Chris) at the alter, overall I was not happy, and yet I'm the bad guy for saying this? How is this professional. I am the bride and I did not get what I wanted, and this gives him a right to bitch at me? I think not.
I love his wife, she is a great person, but I think in a way I would have been better off saving my $400.00.
Oh and he took credit for my idea when it came to the rings. Sorry honey, that was my creativity, not yours!
I will give him credit for the great pictures that I did get, but I am making public to the few people this blog will reach how very unprofessional he was and how I wish I would have had Morgan Miller do my pictures!
He also bitched and said it was my fault for having such a short amount of time to work in, but you know what? I used to model many years ago. If you are a great photographer, it doesn't matter how much time you have, you make it happen! Word to the wise, never bitch at the bride asshole.
(This picture of Chris was the one. That was the ultimate picture, one that I really really wanted, and he managed to get for me.) So kudos for that.
This picture is the one and ONLY one he got with Chris in his hat. I wasn't even looking at the camera and he didn't retake it.
(This is the picture that a NONprofessional took that I liked better. Look at the joy on our faces!!!)
So if you want great or even good wedding pictures minus a diva attitude do not use Bailz Photography out of Beloit, WI. Use Morgan Miller out of Bowling Green, KY.
See next blog for wedding cake (his sister remember) fiasco.
Eep. What crap. I guess there is not much he can do after the fact about you hating your pictures, and I am sure he gets that a lot. I DID notice when you posted photos, not a lot were there even... I thought that you did not even have an actual photographer.
ReplyDeleteI want to be a photographer, but I would not do weddings, because if you don't get it right... well... :O/
It's not the whole idea of hating the pictures, it's the fact that he was a drama queen diva, that couldn't take responsibility. He argued about everything, and I didn't want him in the first place. We will do a vow renewal someday and get a "real" photographer. One that has the right attitude and not that of a diva fashion designer.
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