WHEN IT ALL WENT WRONG ! Photographing Kirk Norcross

I clicked 'delete all' at the end of the shoot

I thought 'kill me now'.

Mr google saved my life and calmed me down, i read that you can recover lost images using some software you can download! ..................

I found some free software I downloaded for free but after reading some reviews on recovering photos I was a bit unsure on whether I could trust it. I just found out I can get the images back I didn't want to use a dodgy software and loose them totally forever.....

It was saturday the morning after the shoot and I decided I would go up to the studio where I was supposed to be meeting my tutor steve and some other students to check out this hire studio that had recently been introduced to us.. When I got there I told Steve what had happened and he seem to think that it could be done but wasn't 100% sure.

One of the city and guilds students, Eric, told me that he was done something similar in the past and he knew a man who had some software that would recover everything that had been shot on the memory card. He rand this man up (Pete) and told him the situation I was in and how desperate I was to recover these images. He said I was welcome to come round with my memory card and he'd have a look for me.

So I left the studio and away I went to find Pete, my life saver, the computer wizard, Eric's mate to see what he could do :)
The process usually takes about half an hour to recover all the images, however it took an hour and a half due to the amount of photos found on the card. Because the memory card was the colleges, you can image how many times it had been used and how many photos had been took on it since it had been purchases!!! OVER 4000!!!

Because I had work in the afternoon Pete kindly finished the process for me and changed the images from raw into jpeg because I he knew I was printing them off at Jessops  after (they only print jpeg images) he sifted out all my photos took from the night and put them on a dvd for me.

He didn't want any money for doing this and after a small argument £30 was forced on him for his time and effort. MANS A LEDGEND!  ...

Here are the images I printed for the club, Each photo was 7x5 and had the logo on the bottom right hand corner... which took me a while because I'm not sure on how to do it as a whole on all my photos without doing it individually. I think you have to save an action on photoshop them upload all the photos at once... not too sure, but ill be looking into that this week for future reference.

I've never done a job like this before with so much pressure. Each girl paid £30 to 'meet and greet' Kirk Norcross. They had a photograph champaign and about 30 seconds talking to the star. Due to the amount of time the club had kirk for and the amount of girls wanted to meet him I had to literally take one photo and on the next girl.. This caused a few problems because I had no time to check the photo for such things like there eyes being closed or the composition....

I have learnt ALOT of things from this shoot.

1) to NEVER EVER press delete on the camera, even if you are only deleting one photograph, you are a click away from loosing them all - save the deleting until ALL photos are backed up.

---- More professional photographers with bigger budgets would have a laptop downloading images immediately after the photograph is taken.. and a team checking the photographs for imperfect images.

2) Don't panic, keep calm and there's always a way out (if you have the right attitude and contracts)

3) Always have a back up camera, spare batteries, tripod(never know if its going to come into use)
Always prepare for the worst. You camera probably wont stop working, BUT WHAT IF IT DOES?

4) I WISH I GAVE KIRK MY PHONE NUMBER!