Re: Bad videographers and photographers
I am just shocked, it is very sad, loosing, missing or corrupting the video or photo data of something that cannot be exersized again. Most of the time, video and photographers are well prepared and bring enough tapes, memory cards, lights and other stuff to cover the event, but after reading all this my heart beat went up, how ill prepared these pros were.
I know sometimes video person could miss one or the other shot but that is just one to two minutes and if it is something important going on like cake cutting or Nikah and he is running out of the tape or cable or some other thing then he normally stop the function and inform what he needs to change and how many minutes he required. But there are some who during the wedding just keeps their camera lights on all the time but record only very selective. same goes with the photographers, they have to change batteries, memory stick and some times lense, both the camera man has to plan ahead and the party people have to cooperate with him.
I think person who is contracting should ask the videoguy to write everything on the contract very clear, and ask the original tapes of the function shoot as well as edited ones, it might cost few buck extra but it will make videographer more responsible to make video. also if you dont like his editing, later you can take those originals to some other pro to have him edit it. One girl shot three weddings for some videoguy on contract and at the end she found out that her lense or camera had some technical problems and 75% of every picture was out of focus and it happened for all three weddings and she took over 2000 images. Now videoperson didn't get any money from his clients for those three weddings in total of 19000 dollars. He asked the girl to compensate but she replied that she didn't have any written contract with the video guy and she is not responsible for any thing, now the case is in the court because the client is sueing video person the original contractor and video guy sueing the sub contractor photogrpher lady, client wants all the videos from the video person without paying and also asking the compesation for their defective pictures, so let see what the result will be.
I think we should make the list of things to ask these pros (i am one of the pros) just to make sure no one have these disasters in their weddings.