So let me start off by saying that this probably wont have much to do with Joel.. I just need to vent... BADLY. As I'm sure you know, I'm a photographer. I worked a wedding last weekend, everything went great.. was there for 10 hours and took 1,700 photos. I went through them that night, and they were all on the card, I deleted a few that I didnt like. By the time I got home, I was exhausted to say the least, so I went right to bed. When I tried uploading the photos, I took the memory card out of my camera, put them in my laptop.. and it said that the files were corrupt. My heart sank.. I literally had a panic attack, but thought that there was no way that this is possible. Well.. It was possible... and a week later, i'm no further along with this situation than I was when I started. I did a ton of research online, and apparently this is common. I downlowded 2 data recovery softwares, which is supposed to be the easy fix. Neither worked. I brought the card to best buy.. they said it would be $600 to send it off to a lab, to retireve the data on the stored memory chip. I know the photos are still on there because in the data recovery programs I downloaded I could see that the card was full. I also found a guy in Australia that is $200 cheaper then best buy, and tons of people recommended him. But I was scared to send it off, and after all my failed attempts I had to face the music and tell my client after she got back from her honey moon. Ive been crying all week about this, sooo sick to my stomach, literally couldn't shake the feeling. I cried the whole time talking to her.. explained everything I just wrote.. the chances are that the files are retrievable.. its just a matter of figuring out how. Of all the times, of all the jobs for this to happen, it has to be a wedding?!?!?! REALLY? why couldn't it have been my own kids, or even someone Else's kids that I could just do a re-shoot??
Anyway, my client was surprisingly very understanding, said she knew it wasn't my fault, and just wanted to figure out how to get it fixed. Now obviously money is an issue. I have in my contract that they signed that I'm in no way liable for any faulty equipment. HOWEVER, I couldn't just leave her on the hook.. I know its not her fault, its not my fault, its just a shitty thing... I only got paid $500 for the wedding.. and I paid an assistant $100 for helping me that day.. So no matter how I look at it, I'm screwed. I offered to refund her every dime she gave me, because she said she would like to take over getting them retrieved. She didn't want the card sent off anywhere. I told her when she gets the photos back, to send them to me, and I'll still edit them. I just cannot believe that this has happened. Ive been so upset all week I literally cant focus on anything. I spent most of the money too, the day after the wedding, I was rushing out the house, got Joel a drink, and when I came back 6 hours later, my fridge was wide open... so I had to throw out everything in my fridge.. and go buy all new stuff... which ate up $200, of the $400 i had left after paying my assistant..I bought my daughter a much needed car seat..and the other $100 I spent on recovery software trying to recover the photos myself... I'm constantly saying if I didn't have bad luck id have no luck at all.. Why does this shit always happen to me?!? I'm not going to have any more of a pity party for myself then I've already had... would just appreciate some prayers that these photos can be recovered.. As much as the money sucks.. right before Christmas... I'm honestly more worried about this lady having photos of her wedding day... UGH.. FML.
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