Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Looking back: Lightbrush Photography (updated)

I'd recommend Lightbrush on the first sentence.

Why? In a nutshell, because they take amazing photos. Well I know it depends on one's taste, but to me, this vendor can find the coolest angles with beautiful shots. Plus it comes with a very affordable price.

On the day, they arrived early at PTIK's guest house where we did most of the preparation. Mas Pepy, one of the owners, himself was on duty, along with several others. My first impression was that they were fun to hangout with, and did not make you feel awkwardly under the spotlight.

While Mbak Tanti did my face and hair, Mas Pepy and his team never took a break from taking pictures. This went on until the end of the night, seriously. There's gotta be thousands of pictures in those cameras.

However, there's this glitch that, to me, is pretty major. They forgot to come to the technical meeting.

I know right.

Mbak Indri, Mas Pepy's wife who does the marketing and behind-the-scene stuff, apologized over and over again. It was an honest mistake, so I let it go. And then, just before the reception, there was an incident of miscommunication; neither Lightbrush or PTIK had prepared a cable to connect the jimmy jib, which we rented from Lightbrush, to the screen, which was from PTIK.

Had they come to the technical meeting and discuss, this wouldn't have happened.

But still, I got to give the credit to Mas Pepy, who handled the incident calmly and quickly made a decision. Magically, a connector appeared and all was good again, even though there was a blackout on the screen because we had to wait for the cable.

Update: The CD arrived yesterday and there were 2,061 photos inside. Two thousand and sixty one. I put it on slideshow and didn't finish looking at the pictures after two hours. Lightbrush took every single moment of the wedding, taking me back to Nov. 19. Thanks to the photos, now I know what the wedding looked like. Plus, they put another CD with a highlight of the photos. Later on, Mbak Indri told me it was a bonus because they had missed the meeting.

Overall, I'm giving 5 out of 5 stars for Lightbrush's photo quality, but 4 out of 5 stars for their service because of the technical meeting and cable incidents. Video will be out in about two months, so I can't rate it until then.

In the meantime, here's some of their work. Mbak Indri is available at 081802046374.