I walked through the door of my home returning from my first ever photoshoot. It was for my neighbor who had just gotten a new puppy. (She hired me more out of pity than anything else, because my photography skills were about as good as my violin playing skills at that time.) I ran upstairs to the computer, imported the photos, and edited them.
Later that evening I was talking with my parents about how happy I was with my photos, when suddenly I blurted out,
"I think I'm good enough to photograph a wedding."
With the proud heart of the uninitiated photographer, I thought that I could photograph a wedding... by myself. My parents hemmed and hawed their way out of saying that I, of course, was not ready to shoot a wedding. Undaunted, I walked away from that conversation still thinking I was good enough.
Since then I have had various humbling experiences that have shown me that 4 years of photography and a few weddings later I am still barely good enough. (One of the weddings the bride and groom had already gotten married, so it was really just a big party, and the second one I was second shooting for. So I really have never shot a real wedding alone yet).
Still, to this day, my dad brings up that I thought I could shoot a wedding after my first photoshoot.
Here are a few photos from my very first photoshoot to cement the fact that I was not ready...
Enjoy my shame:)
ZL
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