A Lesson Learned

Tonight I was hired to follow Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra lookalikes to take photos with guests at a corporate event after-dinner party. The goal was to have the photos ready for the guests immediately during the event. As usual, people loved getting their photographs taken with Frank and Marilyn, who are excellent celebrity look-alikes. People also love that their photographs are ready right away, and that they look so good. Technology can be sweet. We used our instant print system with wireless transmission during the event. 

At the end of the photography time, when I was printing the photos I was mobbed by people looking for their photograph. Quite the mob scene! But there was one problem, and that leads to the lesson I learned.

The production company had their photographer at the event as well. He was taking photographs sometimes with me, and sometimes on his own. So the guests were all wondering where those photographs were. They didn't want to hear me say that "the other photographer" was not with me. They don't care. It doesn't make sense to the guests at all.

My lesson is that I should have either offered to print his photographs, or I should have made sure that we stuck together and took the same photos. I really should have been on my toes, I should have put myself in the position of the guests. They don't know what's going on, they just get very dissapointed when that great photo with Marilyn Monroe is not printed out with all the others.

In the future, I'm going to do my best to be proactive about this!

(Submitted by Rand Larson)