Can the title WPJA be bought? What does it mean to have that title anyway? Do they need to pass an exam or something? Surely not!?
Thx. SO it can be bought afterall. At least Mendes dun work himself in forums telling others "it's not abt the budget" when he has made it.To qualify for WPJA, you have to submit a form and the panel will visit your website and view your portfolio. If your works conform to their requirements(less than 20% details or poses shots etc) than you just pay US$300 and you are one of their members liao. No exams needed.
Some of us started low because we need to get the job/portfolios/practise. The client should know that they get what they pay for. I'm sure we all started from somewhere. Even Gabriel Mendes started with $500 AD packages. Well, look at him now.
But Im sure there are others who charge reasonably cheap and are very good. I guess it all depends on your luck who u pick to shoot your weddings?
Some of us started low because we need to get the job/portfolios/practise. The client should know that they get what they pay for.
This is indeed shocking...
I thought I was one of the few who encountered friends' albums with low photography standards from their photographers.
My colleague's one is the most "yuan wang". He didn't cut on costs. Paid a supposed pro photographer in this forum "higher than average" price and who is supposedly good. But when the final products came, it was a shocker to see that the technicalities expected of him were not there.
Despite so many of us seemingly discussing and owning expensive cameras in Singapore, It's really sad that the standard of appreciation for photography here is not there generally.
I think we have a loooong way to go.
If the couple enjoys the photos, quoting a view I read somewhere in the forum, do you want to spoil it by telling them that they're actually falling short on what they should be getting?
Exactly what I think. It's a complete shocker. This colleague of mine employed a local WPJA photographer. But when I looked at the shots, it's really shocking that, as you mentioned, the understanding of exposure wasn't there at all. And many shots were just off for some reason or another. All I can say is, you can't tell before hand this was going to happen. That's how deceptive it is.
But on the photographer's website, he has all the nice flowery words like... Let me capture your Big Day, preserve your wonderful memories, your album won't collect dust, blah blah... And tis another shocker: He uses top of the line Nikon DSLRs with kick a** lenses that many here will dream of.
So please, those of you out there, if you cannot really shoot weddings, DON'T! Your equipment is nothing if you ain't got the skills. Let the real pros handle the job.
Booked online, managed to get 30% discount... 5 minutes walk to Effiel tower, let me know if you want the hotel contact
Had to scrim and save some dough to buy chocolate from La Maison du Chocolat and Pierre Marcollini for my folks, chewing on one right now as I'm typing. Item #1 of 2 on my shopping list for Paris, and I only had time to buy them while the couple were doing their 2nd makeup in the van.
Oops, OT.