The case I’m going to deal with today is a little more worrying than the cut price weekend warrior norm, the photographer was, allegedly, a full time pro, charging a fair price for the privilege.

Without boring you with the finer points the clients were unhappy that a large number of the day’s activities were lost in translation, that is, the small number of so called images captured were badly composed, badly focused, incorrectly exposed and displayed all the flair of a supermarket budget brand box, and that was the moments the photographer actually remembered to take pictures of.

There are several options for clients who find themselves in this situation, the most common, bizarrely, seems to be, ignore it and show off your images to all and sundry, letting them know ‘you’ think they are fantastic, and hope that no one notices the truth! Secondly, argue, sue, and bad mouth the photographer into giving you some kind of recompense – good luck. Third have a look at your insurance policy and discover stupid photographers are not covered by way of clause 89.g on page 478. And finally the forth option which involves the most work, but, you may well get the images at the end of it…….. re-arrange ‘the day’ yes I’m aware this is in essence impossible, but hear me out, since this is precisely what happened with our recent ‘rescue me’ clients Suzzie and Richard.

After a great deal of pleading with the wedding venue (Comlongon Castle), the kilt shop and a florist, ‘the day’ was re-scheduled, All of the important people re attended (the bride and groom) and a new photographer was commissioned (that’d be us) to get ‘the’ shots, we of course had ample time booked to recreate the day (an hour and a half!) and were only cut short by the early arrival of bridezilla for her late afternoon wedding at the same venue (much to the dismay of the excellent staff )

Some images of ‘the day’ are below