Gill wrote:Thank you for your support, Eric
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Eric the Viking wrote:It's one reason I don't do wedding photography (that and the stress involved).
There are
sooooo many reasons why I'd never touch wedding photography! In fact, I've reached the point where I won't do any photography for anyone else. My photography is a hobby and having 'helped other people out' in the past I now do it solely for my own satisfaction, not anyone else's. In my experience, what begins as 'helping someone out' usually ends up as pressed labour.
oh, don't get me started on wedding photography. or for that matter any support to a wedding.
I've only done one wedding on my own (as the photographer) and I helped as a second on a couple. the ease with which you can completely destroy a day is astounding. one of the lads I helped out managed to forget all his memory cards (seems like the most basic of checks but there you go) as it happened I had 9 with me because I'm somewhat weird about this. he took something like 4000 shots in the day and evening, when I asked him why his response was "if you don't shoot it, they will ask if you did" (a shot every 30 seconds pretty much).
he handed them 500, and sure enough they asked if he had taken such a such, I think it was a table decoration (turns out I had
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I did the evening photography and day time video for a friends wedding a few years ago. As I wasn't the principle photographer I was under no obligation to get good shots and the video was meant to be an add on for her gran who couldn't be there due to ill health. the brief was simply, please film it so we can show it to her.
what she got was a fully edited wedding video with interspersed shots that the photographer couldn't get because she had a focus of the couple, so I got the family outside the church, the people arriving at the venue while the couple were in the car driving round, the kids in their sunday best, the car from a different vantage point, the entrance to the chapel from outside etc. etc. etc. because I was seen as a guest, I got shots that a photographer simply couldn't get.
she was blown away, the actual photographer took a number of my shots to add to her album and the whole family got a copy of the film.
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