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Yikes! While it's kinda scary to me to imagine switching my photographer so close to the wedding, I think you should go ahead and do it. $1000 an image? Are they embossed in gold? That's a little silly. Getting the rights to the images is really important to me too -- I chose a more expensive package just so I could get the rights to both my e-pics and wedding photos. I can't really wrap my head around the fact that she doesn't release the rights to her photos AT ALL. If your boudoir photographer is available and you're happy with the images she's provided thus far, I say go with another photographer!
Yeah, I was expecting to have to pay something for them, but to me $1000 is ridiculous. What kind of "Friend" is this? I understand she makes her money on reprinting photos, but if we buy nothing (like now) what is she going to do with them? She'd be much better off selling me the rights (for a reasonable amount of course).
The other photographers have the rights included in their packages, so I think that's what I'm leaning towards. FH is on the fence.
Not having the rights to the pictures would be a dealbreaker for me. To put it in perspective, my photographer is much more expensive than yours and the rights to all of the wedding pictures cost $500 - or are free with the purchase of a wedding album. You really don't want to be resentful of your photographer on your wedding day since she will be with you every moment. I would research the alternatives and if you are comfortable with another photograper, make the switch. Did you like the boudoir pictures? Does that photographer have experience shooting weddings? When you interview photographers, try to make sure that you look at whole albums they have shot since even a mediocre photographer will take the occassional good picture - especially with a 1,000 digital images and photoshop. Good luck!
I would in a heart beat if they will cooperate with you in terms of the digital photos you are after. 1,000$ per digitial image is absolutly unreasonable! I'm not sure how she stays in business at those prices. I have seen photographers charge steep fees for digitals before around 1,000$ but it was for ALL of them not PER PHOTO. EEEK!
I would dump her. $1,000 an image is INSANE. Since your other photographer is available on your date, I'd say that's fate's way of telling you to get rid of her!
If she is being this unreasonable now, what is she going to be like AFTER she has your money? I think you should eat the deposit and change photographers. If you can't ever afford to GET your wedding photos, what good are they?
I would dump her, def not worth the stress! I am getting all the rights for my photos included in the price I paid for my photographer, which was a little more that $1,200.00 and she is WONDERFUL! Fate is telling you to move on and it sounds like you have a "Plan B" and a "Plan C" to choose from. Good luck!
Dump her.
1. Over 3k package that doesn't give at the least limited rights for personal use and personal distribution.
2. $1000 for an electronic version
That is an utterly rediculous business plan. Even high end photographers whom I know and are friends with, though charge 5k, offer the limited rights and affordable print options!
I've been following this post and I really hope you do decide to change! Ten years from now, the photographs will one of the best keepsakes from your wedding. This woman, your "friend," is crazy. A la carte, the printing rights to BOTH our enagement photos and all wedding photos is only $1500.
Thanks for all of your advice everyone. FH emailed the photographer and fired her. I have a meeting with my first choice for the back up plan tomorrow night. Seems like it's going to work out for the best.
Hopefully his friend understands and isn't to mad at FH for firing his mother-in-law.
Whoa!!! Friend's Mother in Law!! Well at least you got that off your chest!! you can breathe so much easier now!
we had a similar problem, except our friend showed up to our eshoot 2 hours late and was not open to our suggestions.
I would eat the $300 deposit and go with someone who will work with you and your budget.
I agree with Bunnylove08. Forget about the $300 you put down and go for someone who's open to working with you on what you want. There are a lot of photographers out there, I'm sure you'll find one that's available..and one that you'll like even if it's just a month out from your wedding. Best of luck!
I'm sorry, but get rid of her. Most wedding photographers that we interviewed (below and around her price point) gave us all of the digital images. I was under the impression that ALL wedding photographers did that - they can use the images for their promotional purposes, but they "belong" to you and you can do whatever you want with them.
When my mom found out an album wasn't included in our photography package, she was shocked (I guess they used to include albums). I told her I thought what we were paying for was rights to any potential wedding pictures. So, I'm not sure what exactly this woman thinks you would be paying her for - is she spending $1000 on supplies and time per picture?! Ridiculous.
nowadays with facebook and twitter and flickr and all sorts of online things, its becoming more and more the norm to provide the client with digital files instead of prints, or digital files with option for prints, or at least the option to purchase ALL the files with one fee....charging by image is a bit crazy!!! especially1000 bucks...maybe it was a typo and she meant to say 10 cents...but even still lol
Technically, the copyright and thus ultimate ownership of the photos remains with the photographer, but the usage is allowed tot he client as per the contract terms. So any photos we give to our clients remain our copyright
if it was the norm to charge 1000 bucks per photos, i think wedding photographers would be the wealthiest people on the planet....lets see, for average all day wedding, thats........400,000 dollars!! sweet!!
I'm glad to hear that you dropped her! That is just the most ridiculous pricing I've ever heard of! You definitely did the right thing; I would have had her out the door in a heartbeat!
Try http://www.plumtreestudio.com/
We used them and loved their style, friendly nature and professionalism. Best value in town from what we found!
We actually went with Laurelle Photography. Here is here blog: http://laurellephotography.wordpress.com/ right now our wedding is the one on top (thompson wedding)
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Here I am less than 40 days before the wedding thinking EVERYTHING is fine and all planned. I guess everyone needs some drama in their wedding planning, right?
Here's ours:
We hired a "family friend" to be our photographer. I wasn't too sold on the idea from the start, but went ahead since FH thought it was fine. She is not giving us ANY break on the price (over $3000) and she said it was not her policy to release the rights to photos at all, which was important to me. When I pushed a little more, she said she'd "work with us". Flash forward to this week. We had our portrait session for our Signature portrait a month ago, she posted them online, and I picked a photo. I also wanted to find out what she'd charge me to buy 3 out of the 30 or so photos digitally so that I could use them for a wedding announcement. First she offered some really expensive ones that she does, but then said if I wanted an electronic version it was going to be $1000/image. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I flipped, but instead of writing her back and giving her the bird, I had FH write her. He explained our situation (a lot of family not coming - we wanted things for websites) and asked for only 25 photos of the wedding and the three I requested. She still told us no basically - it's not her policy.
So here's our delima, do we keep her? If we don't all I'm out is the $300 deposit (at least I didn't have to sign a contract). I emailed my boudior photographer and she's available (for a third of the price nonetheless), so she's an option. A co-worker also has a son that does wedding photography and he might be available too. Would you make the switch?