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      jayeads responded to Bethers 25 May

      I don't. I want one too, and like you, shootQ wasn't quite it. It's close. Also, the cost sucks. There are a million to choose from, I just haven't found the right one. Some people live shootQ, some love Tave, some like lumamoto. Let me know if you find a good one :)

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      Yep. 99.9% of the time it ends up being about themselves. They didn't like what THEY looked like in the images. They weren't feeling THEIR serious faces. They felt like they looked ______.

      I had a parent who felt like their daughter looked too sexy in the pictures - which is still sort of funny to me, considering I don't shoot that way. My guess is they were having an issue with accepting their daughter as a grown woman.

      Part of the job as a photographer is dealing with people's perceptions of themselves. That, and having a thick skin, understanding that an issue with the images may very well not have anything to do with you.

      That said, if you sucked on a shoot, own up and make it right.

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      Looked into it... Not interested. It's a great concept, if someone wants to perfect it, I'd be much obliged.

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      Depends in the time of year. Winter time is dark by 5pm, and people are still working... So it is often weekends. In the summer, all I have time for is weekdays.

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      i do, they are pretty dang fun!!! i don't use it much because i have other cameras i use for instant film

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      nope... and i guess the benefit would be paying a bunch more money than VSCO for better grain than Lightroom, and not quite getting the look of film with either of them :) it's just another tool for editing, and it has sdome interesting tools to refine your processing style, though i think they will have to do some real magic to stay viable with the kinds of presets that exist now

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      i do miss the tones and colors, like all day long. the mkiii feels so much more, um, digital. everything else about the mkiii is much better.

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      jayeads responded to GDphotography 8 Mar

      i don't really have any. bad answer, but the truth.

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      jayeads responded to HicksDL 1 Feb

      ha! ask away, friend :) i will still answer if i have before, mostly because i don't think formspring even has a search option. pretty big oversight in my opinion

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      jayeads responded to andersonshore 1 Feb

      it's your call. some do some don't. i've done both, and all sorts of inbetween iterations. usually i have had a blanket "i start at $____..." to let people know about where i am at. right now i have nothing because i am re-working that portion of my business.

      why do it? informative is good. saves you from answering $500 inquiries.

      why not? premium brands often do not. if you are looking at them, you know what you're getting in to.

      this sort of back n forth can go on for days. i honestly don't have a great answer for you :)

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      normally it goes like this

      - import
      - grab a few of my favorites that stuck in my mind and edit them for facebook, etc
      - cull the whole wedding
      - edit

      i don't like to cull/process, cull/process. i want to be done and look at the thing as a whole. this is all personal taste, of course. however, i feel like culling the full wedding first allows me to be more ruthless on my selections. a more succinct story is 99.9% of the time a better story

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      i have started listening to Over the Rhine again, after taking a few years off.

      the tron uprising soundtrack is fun

      mindy smith

      kathleen edwards

      the weeknd, on occasion

      but today... Wham! (don't even pretend you don't at least tap your foot)

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