Should I Feel Guilty??

I know I probably should feel guilty but I don't. I know your probably wondering what about.

Friday night I photographed a PartyLite ceremony. As in I was the photographer. As I was getting paid to do it not just as a favor but was hired specifically to take photos of the event.

I know kinda repetitive but I had to get my point across.

Now to the rest of the story.

The night was going good until this one person got there with their camera and no consideration.

This gals husband was constantly in the way. I kept backing into him. I had to compete with his flash. He kept telling everyone to look at him. Totally not cool.

Finally there was a point where I had a couple of minutes and this couple was behind me and so I told them that I was thinking about getting their camera for a backup camera and asked if I could see theirs to see if it would be a good fit. The wife looked insulted but the husband didn't know any better and let me look at their camera. Stupid guy.

I got a hold of it and 1.) turned it on Raw 2.) set it to Manual and 3.) set their flash compensation as far down as I could. 4.) turned the lens to manual focus
1.) They won't be able to open the files because they don't have a photoshop program or something similar.
2.) They didn't know how use it on Manual
3.) When the flash would fire it was so dim it was like a candle.
4.) This was my favorite. I could have changed it in the menu to manual focus only but thought maybe this they would have a fighting chance anyway of finding the right button.

I didn't feel one bit guilty. The rest of my night there went great.

They had been asked to stop by the person the event was for so they should have stopped but they didn't. The least they could have done was to stay out of my way.

Before I left they were in the corner both huddled over the camera and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. The camera was new enough that they had the little manual that comes in the box with them.

Me being the 'nice' person I am went over and put all the settings back like they should be. I didn't bother to tell them about the raw I figure they would figure that out when they got home. I did change it back to jpg though so that the photos of her kids will come out.

I was steaming. I know it wasn't a nice thing to do but I don't care and given the same circumstances I would do it over again just earlier in the evening.

I'll get some photos of it up this evening or in the morning Mason has been running me ragged. I'm afraid we hit the terrible twos with a vengeance.