u/palinsafterbirth

Most likely going blue, but would love to hear your thoughts

Working wedding photographer here with about 35-40 weddings a year. I typically send my first batch through Aftershoot, for every hour I am at the wedding I spend twice as much editing/fine tuning/triple checking, send the entire gallery (1100ish photos) through denoise, but I am still on a 2019 cheese grater.

I am not asking editing advice but I know I will need to update sooner than later because of OS intel service. I am just seeing if I should spend the money on an M5 or if it is just going to be too much. TIA!

I feel like I post here once a week, but what a season! So just finished my 5th straight meeting with a client (not 5 meetings with them, but 5th straight with this issue) who's wedding is coming up in a few weeks and they said "can we get a photo with each person in our party". Like are people just not doing this anymore, god I still feel young at heart but some of the shit newer photographers are doing is making me feel old/saying "wait, is this just a traditional trend"

I work as a wedding photographer and have had a steady assistant for the past 5 years. They are amazing and a super hard worker but this past year you can tell they are stressed/acting unprofessional on wedding days. I obviously enjoy working with them but we had a job yesterday where they straight up said to me “it’s so hard being here right now”. I want to tell them that if they need a break take one but they are also not in the best financial situation where I pay decently but their other jobs don’t. How would you approach this without sounding condescending?

Kicking off peak season here in New England and deep in editing mode, but wanted to hear others processing timeline? My turn around is 4-5 weeks, and will look at about 3 weddings a day spending about 2 hours in each either fine tuning/removing things/ect, and look through it about 5-6 times.

What are others process in peak/just all around toning workflow?

Don't get me wrong, I am super thankful for a lot of places I work at, and I am about to enter my 100th time at a venue that has been very good to me but the clients I am getting there just aren't it anymore. I love the staff and I love the venue but I am considering only taking a select number there a year from now on, have others dealt with something like this before and if so how many weddings do you take a year at a similar venue?

We have used one for a few years and to be honest service has gone down hill. Ideally we are looking a quarterly cleaning with one super deep clean once a year, TIA!

Thorne was my go to for years and really loved it. They unfortunately don’t make their vegan pea protein anymore and have been striking out on anything that can replace it. Some I find make me too bulky and others just don’t fill me up, any recommendations are appreciated!

We had a wedding about 3 weeks ago where the couple wanted to all the photos in the South End out here in Boston, anyone who also works here knows the beautiful charm of the brown stone buildings. It was a pretty sunny day, found a bit of shade, but completely forgot brick makes everything red. I've spent possibly 4 8 hour days fixing a very spray tanned couple and their very Irish families in front of bricks for separation. I knew better than to do that, but hey we all make mistakes even 20 years in.

This month I have had 4 weddings thus far with just weird scheduling/planners overcomplicating very simple things. From overstepping the couples request of doing all extend family photos before the ceremony/couples being over cautious with choosing a first look location where guests won't be but 45 min away/to couples insisting on getting ready locations an hour away from the venue but renting only 1 party bus to make the rounds and refusing to talk about the possibility of traffic, just seems like its an overall weird vibe year.

Anyone else just leaving meetings being like "oh there is such a simpler way to do this"?

Been in the mood for some katsu and admittedly disappointed with the place near me (Maki Maki Woburn, and yes I know Woburn isn't proper north shore). Willing to drive for some good Katsu though!

My guess he says “surprise me” and it’s Perna with the King Of Jizz face