But...I'm sitting here editing her newborn photos. The hospital in which she was born has a contract with a professional photography company that, I believe, employs freelance photographers (just an assumption). We were given an advertisement with some amazing photos, looked at the website with even more amazing photos, and I figured, that's it! All I wanted was a disc of the images and there was no sitting fee, so we'd only have to pay for the disc as opposed to a privately hired photographer's sitting fee as well as fee for disc or any prints. I believe some pros don't even offer a disc, which would be a no-go for me because I want full printing rights until the end of time. It's just simpler that way. Plus, I don't trust the work of professionals; I just haven't had good experiences. Not with photographers, necessarily, but professionals all around. So, I like to have a disc handy to make my own edits, if necessary. And necessary it has turned out to be!
First, I was put off by the fact that this woman used a flash. I have a newborn...two day old baby who was just enveloped in darkness. You're going to blow a flash in her face? The ad said "natural light" not flash photography. In my opinion, a flash is hideous anyway. Natural light photos have such better quality, better dimension! I overlooked it at the time, though.
Second, when we received the disc of photos, I wanted to cry. The quality was the worst I'd ever seen. Her camera had to be at least as good as mine, which takes amazingly detailed photos. So, why did it look like, literally, a 1 mp camera was used as opposed to 8 or higher? I wrote to the company to complain. I was so upset! My baby was no longer a newborn when we received the disc! I wanted a large print of at least one, but a 4x6 would be the largest acceptable unless I wanted the ugliest photo possible.
So, the photographer sent a new disc with the unedited photos. Much better, but still disappointing because of the flash. Shadows existed where they shouldn't, bits and pieces were blown out white, and detail was nonexistent when it should have been great. There was at least more detail than her edits, though. And why is that? Because she over-airbrushed the photos. She airbrushed my newborn baby! Babies need that amount of airbrushing? Really? Her hairline was gone, it was so overdone!
At the time, I had already been deep into my own constant photography of Gianna, so I didn't make the time to edit the original photos--to correct the lighting and color that the flash ruined. As Gia napped today, however, (I use the past tense because, at this point, she has woken up. Haha) I decided to try to make a dent. I got one finished ;) Oh well! It's phenomenal in comparison, in my opinion...and took probably an hour.
And, one day, I'll have reworked them all :)
If I could do it all over again, though, I'd hire my own photographer after extensive research. Trusting a company to actually have all equally talented professionals is ignorant. Of course they took the best photos they were given and advertised those! There have to be as many less talented photographers employed by them as well, though. Silly, financially poor Kelly. Next time...except it still kills me that I don't have the absolutely most amazing pictures this time :( Gia deserves them! And I think I do too :-P
Anyway, time to feed the moo! Talk later...which hopefully means soon, hehe.
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