I decided to stop wedding photography...

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  1. foto glam

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    it's time to explore new horizon and STOP wedding ! 'cause too much Time in a day , too much time to edit photos ... too much time to print book for ..... not to much money !!! time to shift to mini-outdoor session and give to my client a super shot !!! print on beautiful canvas.

    what do you think about that?
    suggeston critique & comment are very welcome !

    thanx in adv to all professionist here!
     
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  2. grenice

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    Overtime you will see thats the best decision you've made. Looks very nice and clean.
     
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    Great job, and I agree with grenice.....that ONE bride's mother--- was my determining moment.....
     
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    Dealing with a Momzilla is the absolute worst!
     
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  5. foto glam

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    loool absolutely yes... my last bride's mother said me why the background in photo was blurry ... OMG!!!
     
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    After being a touring musician for many years and also doing many weddings in the process I was like no effing way will I shoot weddings because I know in advance what it can be like and many times it's just pure BS. I shoot wildlife because they don't bitch at you to Photoshop their 3 chins out of the shot. :D
     
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    Your photos are just beautiful!! However, by showing us your beautiful masterpiece, you are no longer anonymous, which may or may not what you want. Just proceed with extreme caution due to the number of items that you have shared and downloaded from this website.

    We briefly touched on this not too long ago: https://p-v.club/threads/photo-critique-section.3600/#post-9857

    By the way, your Facebook photos are awesome! :)
     
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    Thank you Sir! I’ve change the url , thank u for comment top!! Much appreciate it!
     
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    Dope pictures! Thanks for sharing.
     
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    @foto glam I'm not into weddings or so but I wonder: Isn't the most important and satisfying part of wedding photography when your clients are happy? I would not care if some aunty does not understand what my style is or what my clients expect. Usually they booked you because they liked your portfolio.

    Nice portraits by the way! :)
     
  11. convectuoso

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    Scrap the watermark, too. I googled the text and came across your zenfolio site.
     
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    I'm going to have to disagree with some of these points. I did a break down of my 2018 season and of the (just over) 200k I made, 56.71401% of that was from weddings. (113k)

    Having made a custom color profiles for my cameras, my shoot > dump > cull (PM) > edit (LR) > export > upload (Zenfolio) process takes a day.. maybe a day and a half - really depends on the shooting environment at the time.

    I suspect the drain on time largely comes to having an inefficient system - and undervaluing yourself.
     
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    "2018 season and of the (just over) 200k I made"

    Please adopt me...i'm a great cook.
     
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    Wow... that is impressive! I don't mind shooting as a second shooter for you. :)
     
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    OMG that's a lot! What's the matter for being so precise about the percentage of 56.xxxxx :)
    Just curious, how many weddings did you shoot last year? And where are the other 43,28599% coming from?
     
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    QuickBooks

    Will post where the rest came from when I get back home this evening.
     
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    I believe that if there are no satisfactions it is difficult to be able to work but at the same time you must deal with the economic part...it's a question of balance.
    Perhaps the best thing would be to cut out time for "only personal" projects.
    @foto glam your work is really nice but remove logo ;) keeping to be anonymous.

    @convectuoso ...200K in 2018?! u rocks here (in forum) & out :)
     
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    Stunning m8! unfortunately in my zip code i can't be a 5k photographers even if my passion married with my work should be paid for this. there's a sort of photographic ignorance where i work and very little percentage of people really understand my work ;), let me explain my store is in shopping center where the people want spend less for more
     
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    Am I missing some pictures?
     
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    The million dollar (or in this case six figure) question, how do I make a custom color profiles for my cameras? Any tutorial available for this? TIA
     
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