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A series of TikTok videos about a girlfriend’s dissatisfaction with her photographs has sparked a debate online, with professionals offering recommendations on how to hire a photographer.
By Anna Grace Lee
When Alexandra Weinstein won her wedding photographs in Anguilla in November 2023, she enjoyed them all. Initially.
A few weeks later, after reviewing all the photos and thinking more, she felt it was all about the retouching look and she wasn’t happy. She felt that it made her makeup look dull, her teeth yellow, and the ocean floor. grey.
A few months after an exchange with her photographer, she took to TikTok to recount her experience in a series of videos that together have garnered millions of views. He said he asked for edits to some photos, but when he didn’t like the updated versions, he asked for the unedited and unedited images. The photographer shared some, which Weinstein herself edited to make them more compatible with her vision.
Ultimately, Ms. Weinstein asked for all the raw photographs and the photographer offered a price that she and her husband considered unreasonable, after first paying about $8,000. She posted on her Instagram Story something like: “You shouldn’t be in the wedding industry if you’re not looking to please a client,” Ms. Weinstein shared in a phone interview.
“And I sent him an email saying, ‘I hope you don’t need me to give a negative review of this situation,'” said Weinstein, 30, who lives in Tampa, Florida.
“As a first girlfriend, you do it blind,” she said. “You don’t know what the right questions to ask are. ” She said she discovered the photographer on Instagram, they talked, and he sent her a Pinterest board with concepts. in what she wanted.
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