We give the card to him, and I pretty much have anxiety attacks for the next two weeks. After talking to the data recovery specialist, he is confident he can recover the data.
We don't want them to stress if we can get these images recovered.
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Software recovery on their end didn't work, so we took it to the next level and hired a data recovery specialist who specializes in CF card recovery.Īt this point, we decide to not tell the couple. I give them my camera and card, and they work on it that night. I explain what happened, and they are just as nervous as I am. We were gonna meet halfway since they had a wedding that same day and we were crossing paths geographically. They thanked me for the "amazing" job I did, and I leave the wedding. I maintain my composure, get the shots I wanted, and send them back to the party to enjoy themselves. This couple trusts me with all my life, and I felt completely awful. The hardest part about shooting, is trying to pretend like nothing happened. I wanted to get these in the event that I can't recover the card. I convince the bride and groom to do more portrait shots inside the mansion away from everyone.
This lead me to believe that maybe the battery had a voltage drop and caused a read and write error when taking pictures.Īt this point, I have an hour left to shoot.
Side note: When I inserted a new battery and CF card, the camera's shutter went back to it's normal speed.no slow downs. In my mind, I figured it can still be recoverable. I'm feeling sick to my stomach, but I can't show that anything happened. Mind you, he is doing this while I'm photographing everyone on the dance floor. He runs it on a second program.card cannot be detected. I tell my second shooter to take out the laptop and he runs card recovery software on it. I remove the battery and replace it with a new one, "Card cannot be accessed". At this point, I'm thinking it might be the battery. turned off the camera and turned it back on: "Card cannot be accessed". I look through the first 15 images and the camera freezes. I'm relieved and I start looking through the images. I turn on the camera, and the images show up on the viewfinder. My heart drops and I turn off my camera, remove the battery, wait 15 seconds, and reinsert the battery. I swap back to my first CF card to check out portraits and I get an error message, "Card cannot be accessed". At the end of the speeches, people start to eat. I switch cards and start photographing with my second shooter. I get to the reception and it's time for speeches. I shrug my shoulders and continue shooting. I look through my view finder, and the images are showing up fine. Halfway through shooting the portraits, I notice that the shutter starts to slow down a little bit. I was shooting with my Canon 5d Mkiii, and shooting in high speed continuous mode. The day was hectic, families were running around, but we were able to capture everything we needed and in a way that was natural and beautiful. It's too late to turn back, but I'm using my story as a way for other photographers to learn or understand how this could really happen to anyone. Now I know how I could have better prepared myself for this situation. I'm going to start off by saying that I'm not looking for sympathy.
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