Photos are out....

Terry, the photographer called to inform that our photos are ready so we went to his house to pick them up.

To be honest, I was very nervous about seeing those photos that he has taken. Of course, we have no doubt about his photography skills since he has already been in this line for so long and has always been fully booked during certain period. We have already shown him Joo and Jayven's ROM and that's how we want our photos to look like after editing them.

He's giving us 120 photos free but we topped it up to 180 so we had to fork out $30 more.

When I saw those photos, they were an utter disappointment to me... Out of 180, I guess there were only 10 or less that were edited to the way I wanted them to be. To give some credits, a handful of the photos were indeed well taken.

However, I do not understand by his way of editing the photos. From what I can see in the album, borders and text were added to those photos, some were given touches of special effects like blurring, fading out, etc.

They do not portray the dreamy, fairy-tale effects that I have been looking for.

All photos, a total of about 500, were given back to us in a CD-R and Henry's name was spelt wrongly on it. Instead of Henry, it appeared as Herry due to the cursive font they used.

Henry thought the photos were fine even the borders were a little boring and conventional-looking. I expressed my displeasure when he asked me to rate Terry's work and I gave a mere 60 out of 100. He thought I'm too hard to please but from my point of view, I would think that since we paid for his service, there should be some kind of expectations. Moreover, we showed him what we wanted but did not get it in the end.

I guess it's his photography style that matters. This is not what I wanted.

Sadly to say again, he did not achieve what we were looking for as conveyed to him during the meet-up way before the ROM. I will give him the benefit of doubt that it slipped his mind. I remembered Henry kept emphasising to him that we do not want all our photos to be point-and-shoot kind. There should be more candid shots that reveal the happy emotion of the people from within. A picture tells a thousand words.

I want the focus to be not just on both of us but our parents as well, for example, my parents' expression when we were saying our vows, my mom's emotions when I said my thank-you speech, etc but I saw none of those.

Instead, it was Yada who took such a beautiful shot of my parents during our solemnisation at the table.



This is part of what I have been searching for!

We will certainly view the style of the next photographer for our customary wedding and of course, the pre-wedding shoots. Maybe I should not grumble too much since you get what you paid for.