this situation happened to my wife's boss's daughter. Not so bad lah but she engaged a freelance photographer which she know has a DSLR. End up the photos taken just like normal photos taken by point and shoot cameras, no feel at all.

my wedding event photographer who has shot some of my friend's wedding too, was introduced by a photog friend. Cannot simply trust any guys who just own a DSLR nowadays.

about the ratio - i think it is inevitable for newbie (like me). It is better to shoot more (especially trying different setting, angle, style) than shoot less. Honestly, i shoot about close to 1,600 photos during my 1 week overseas trip to China early this month. Only about 500 shots are good, another 800 is ok after some retouching, the rest is to be discarded. But i do learn a lot from the 300 photos that being discarded, will definitely take note of these lessons on my next trip.

as a hobbyist, i just shoot my private photos. I did once do wedding photography for my wife's good friend on the wedding day but not on commercial basis, just tag along with another photographer. Luckily the photos all turns out not bad and my wife's friends like them very much - but not pro like those professional shots lah but better than normal PnS.

This post has been edited by Cynox: Apr 23 2012, 12:11 PM