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Hurt/annoyed with our photography
A little background story... our photographer was a girl I went to highschool with. She was just starting her own business and offered us a really great deal on our engagement and wedding pictures. I had seen some of her work and it looked good to me, so I figured why not. She did our engagement pictures and we were really happy with them, but then she did our wedding and we weren't crazy about the pictures at all. Honestly, a lot of the pictures our guests took turned out better. I never said anything to her though because like I said, she was kind of a 'friend' and gave us a good deal.
Well she just remodeled her website and every other engagement session/wedding she's done is on there, but there isn't a single picture from either our engagement session or our wedding. Clearly this means she's ashamed of the work she did for us or else she just thinks we're ugly lol. It kind of hurts my feelings that we're not on her website anywhere, especially since we were the first couple to give her the chance to do an engagement session and the first couple to book our wedding with her. Am I being a brat for kind of being hurt/annoyed at this?
Re: Hurt/annoyed with our photography
I understand where you're coming from. I know I would take it personally that she didn't have anything up, but it's probably more that she doesn't think it's her "best" work (being new), and you want to put your best foot (photographs) forward.
I also think we set ourselves up to be disappointed with the pictures. We put SO much effort into that day, and wanted the photographer to catch every moment. We also got a good deal ($900 vs the $1800-2500 locally), so I haven't said anything to our photographer about it. I'm really glad a couple of other hobby photographers where there (a friend and an uncle), because I feel like she dropped the ball. Blah. Thankfully there were HUNDREDS (maybe 800-900 with pro, friend, uncle, and photo booth) to choose from, so I was able to put together a good album. Putting the album together made me feel better about the pictures. So maybe an idea?
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I sort of know where you're coming from. Our photographer wasn't a friend, but was ranked #1 in the city....they do a ranking every year based on votes. A few of our friends had used her and she gave us a deal.
Well she totally dropped the ball with our pictures. From the pictures themselves to editing and getting them to us based on our contract time frame. She also just recently did her webpage and one picture from our wedding is on the whole thing while there are others that are featured more than once. Best part...the picture isn't even of US. It's a detail shot. Nice blow to the ego lol.
I never said anything because of the deal she gave us. Plus what can she do to the pictures now, you know? She can't go back and get the ones needed, etc. I guess you get what you pay for.
I made an album, like Jena, and put the best pics I could find in it. I love the album...so glad I did it myself and didn't spend $300+ through the photog.
I think you have a right to be hurt that your pictures aren't up. I always hate when my photographer posts previews of other brides on FB and says amazing things about the pictures or the location or the wedding and he never said anything that nice about ours. Our photog actually put the wrong names on the blog when he posted our engagement pics, it made me feel like we were just another couple and not a couple he wanted to put his best foot forward for.
I think this stuff is super frustrating when it comes to the wedding because that was a one shot deal. We can't go back and recreate the ceremony to get more pictures. We got married in a mansion with a grand staircase and the photographers didn't take pictures of me coming down the stairs, I can't redo that!
I think you may be being overly sensitive. My photographer didn't post any of our wedding photos on his website, blog, or FB. But, I know that he doesn't post every.single.wedding, either. I wouldn't take it to heart.
I thought you were going to ask her for all of the photos unedited because you didn't like the editing?
Maybe I am, but she has in fact posted something from every single other session she's done lol which is what made me go, 'huh?'
Nah, it wasn't me who didn't like the editing, that was someone else. She didn't edit the pictures badly, and there were a few we liked, but certainly nothing that made us go, "WOW".