They had no idea what they were looking for either. That is typical for charity events. They tell you one thing then when it happens it is something else. The tell you they want slides and they will get the film, then hand you a couple of 12 exposure rolls of Kodak Max (literally). You speed 100 hours doing a sound sync slide show of 140 slides for them and then they are too cheap to buy a 140 tray and tell you to use the 80 slide tray that came with the Ektagraphic Viewer, that you arranged for them to get rent free. That of course means you have to resync the whole thing. Now you are beginning to see why I do that invoice thing, at least when they look at it they realize you not cheap, but are doing them a large favor.
Caveman's comments are good advise. Usually, you would set up the main camera on the tripod for a set shot, and let your assistant shoot those. The models should have it made clear that if they are not on the spot there will be no nice shot for them. The free camea shots you should do, they take more experience. Then comes the hard part, edit ruthlessly, and put the post production time for it on the invoice. Next time, if there is a next time with these same people, you will know what you need to do. The problem is most photographers who volunteer for this sort of thing are so pissed afterwords they never volunteer again, not realizing that it is only after they know what is happening that they will know just what they have to do to make it work Why did I say to put all that post production time on the invoice, after all you aren't getting paid for it? Well, next time you say, "Look, I had to do a lot of post production on this last year, because no one paid any attention to my instructions, this year I will not be able to do the post production stuff for free as I am really booked up". Get the point? Mostly they will, or they will decide they don't need you. That is okay too, because what you get from these kinds of things are experience, and exposure. But, the exposure doesn't do you a bit of good if the results make you look bad, so if they won't cooperate you don't need to work with them. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Basically, I kept a lot of stuff in I would normally throw out. If it > were up to me, I'd just keep the single best shot for each outfit, but > I have no idea what these people are looking for since they didn't > tell me.
