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Never use your wife as an assistant!
One good reason....you can't fire her! I had a minor job yesterday. Just a few group shots, some individual. Really wasn't a big deal at least not enough to hire an assistant. However, I did need someone to fill out paperwork at the site. So I asked my wife is she could give me hand for a few hours. Bad Move! After the first fifteen minutes she became an expert on how to crop a photo for best effect. After twenty minutes she knew all about color balance. After one hour she began to tell me how shoot the photos. All I wanted was for her to keep track of the paper work on site! It's very hard to shoot while biting your tongue. The pain can become quite uncomfortable. Dec 17 06 11:09 pm Link Perhaps you should have taken your wife aside and asked her politely to let you do your job. I'm sure that would have been very frustrating. Perhaps next time you decide you need to take soemone along and you figure she can handle the job tell her beforehand what it is exactly that you need her to do and then inform her that it would be greatly appreciated if she would stick to that job. Let her know that if she does anything else it will cause you to lose your focus. The photog that i currently work for takes his wife to almost every shoot he goes on and it works really well for the two of them, but they spoke before about what the boundaries were. Best of luck on future shoots Dec 17 06 11:23 pm Link You should have handed her the camera and told her to shoot! In all seriousness, I have a buddy who often uses his girlfriend as an assistant. They have a great relationship and she admits up front that she doesn't have any photographic talent, so they make a good team. Dec 17 06 11:26 pm Link It is obvious the two responders ARENT married.. LMAO Good job biting your tongue.. you did the right thing.. Dec 17 06 11:28 pm Link Haha, you can be right or be happy. Dec 17 06 11:35 pm Link I just worked today with photographer who had his girlfriend there as an Makeup artist. Cool combination she directed some of the shots and as well as gave ideas for poses and angles. Interesting really he seemed very receptive. It was cool seeing a couple who artistically drew from eachother to get a shot. You may want to be a little opened minded as well to her ideas... Many people are stuck in there own habits and ways of shooting which may or may not be a good. Good Luck with it though. Hopeful it will do more good then annoying for ya  *sandra Dec 17 06 11:40 pm Link UIPHOTOS wrote: Exactly! Dec 17 06 11:45 pm Link Eric Haywood wrote: Is it because your wife is more annoying then your girlfriend Dec 17 06 11:47 pm Link FKVPhotoGraphics wrote: I bet you she makes a good roast beef though.. Dec 17 06 11:49 pm Link Wow, I'm married, and my husband has never tried to take over my shoots. He's helpful, and considerate, and only points out things that would make me more efficient. I only took it the wrong way a couple of times when I first started out. Now I couldn't imagine doing a shoot without him (which I'll have to this coming week. He's going to be here in KC, and I'll be in OKC for a shoot!) Dec 17 06 11:53 pm Link I at one time had a girlfriend who loved to be able to assist on my shoots.. I took her to most of the ones I had while we were dating. It was a blessing and a pleasure to have her at my side on shoots. She got in to doing some modeling.. and then went on to do some adult videos. I havent seen her in years (in person), but I have some of her XXX movies. Dec 18 06 12:12 am Link |
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