We are telling our story of how we entered into this photography journey and how things began for us……
Our Story
The Year :2007
************The Big Lesson! *****************
So your girl got a referral from one of her clients and this project /event was a celebrity weekend event immediately I became nervous and scared and told the client I’m an amateur and that I’m not qualified to do this. He convinced me that I had a camera and knew how to take pictures I would be fine.
Ok challenge accepted
Called up my good friend and she became my photo assistant 😊
1st event
Charity fundraiser
Went around snapped photos tried to get what I could and he had me captured a few with people
1st night down 2 more to go
2nd day bowling charity event
Once again snapping pictures all around
Was able to capture a few of Atlanta celebrities…
Ok great we good.
3rd event pool party… ok this one got canceled due to the parking challenges being at a private home.
So we cleaned up the images burned them to a disc and scheduled a meet time.
Okay we’ll everything was good we met I gave him the disc he gave me the check for my services I cashed the checked immediately paid my assistant
And we good…. Until we were not Received phone call from client he started they would be canceling the check….
1st Night Event
Bowling Charity Event
I’m like huh what??!!!
Yep canceling the check because my images they could not use…
So there you have it… I did 2 back to back days of services with an assistant and got paid $0
Canceled Check
I was livid upset angry 😡 why would someone do that to me…
So after processing this awful experience I prayed about it and after that the spirit gave me the words to follow up in an email.
In my email I explained to him that I did the work he ask me to do and I told him that before you hired me I was an amateur and you move forward to take a chance on me anyways so for that alone I should be compensated.
It was then what he said next that changed everything for me… he told me my pictures weren’t bad… it was that I had too many images of the backs of peoples heads they would not be able to use those images in their magazine.
AHHHH HAAAAA Moment!
The Big Lesson was in this critique of the work I did for him .
1st thing because I was shy I was too afraid to walk up in people and ask for a picture or even take one.
It was easier to just shoot a bunch of images from a distance since I’m delivering you hundreds of images I know you can get what you need out of those images
2nd the quality of images you needed for your event.
I didn’t understand the need of the images for the assignment. Being that all this is new to me I really didn’t know how to properly capture an event.
Between being shy and lack of knowledge
Landed me with one of the biggest lessons in my journey.
So after our email exchange he then told me I was right and to call there Dallas office and have another check sent to me.
Lesson for me was.... After this fiasco I knew to capture images that people can use. Images that if needed for a magazine they would be quality
I also learned to be more assertive, you are in this business you are going to have to deal with people you cannot be shy, you just be kind and ask for the shot.
So moving forward in the special event space, I strive to give you the best quality images for your event capturing details candid and posed images. All that you will be able to use whether in a magazine on your website or marketing materials This lesson here taught me to be better and capture great images!
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