Wedding Camera Advice

[aureliaaurita]

You probably will resent my post, but here it is.

I have made photographs at quite a few weddings. I always had an associate photographer. Between the two of us, we brought over 50 years of photography experience for our clients. I always enjoyed the day of the event and I made friends of folks at every wedding.

From the topics you covered in your first post, I believe you should consider taking a pass on doing this event.

You can get mad at my post here; that's your choice.

For many, a wedding is a once in a lifetime event. Relatives gather, some who haven't seen each other for a long time. There are certain money shots and they need to be properly made.

Enough said.

Not mad, why would I be mad?

I've done four weddings as an assistant - and one accidentally when the guy that showed up was awful, I mean, really awful, so they ended up using my photos instead for their entire album.

It was for a friend - for a token amount, after much, much persuasion - she is very familiar with me, my photographs in general AND the weddings I've done previously.

It has happened, and it went well, bar the challenges of the registrar and one certain shot I wish I'd framed differently but there was pressure to move on as they'd a baby in tow and he didn't want to hang around much beyond the two thirty second mark 😉

I promise I've not been irresponsible - people have asked me before, many times, and I've refused because I didn't feel I'd enough practise under my belt as second in line.

It was a smallish day, crowded but small, they were so relaxed they hadn't even thought what they'd like as their first dance and forgot to cut their cake.

I take your point, but I think you've got the wrong girl. It went well.

 

[aureliaaurita]

Our daughter current job is night club photographer. On this weekend we reviewed her recent work which was greeted by the club. Flash with B. Most of her portrait and club work is done in low light with flash. It is well balanced and exposed.

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she's likely had an awful lot more practise than me in such conditions.

I did get some good dancing shots, and a couple of the couple themselves but they were on the dance floor a total of about two minutes the whole evening so not an awful lot of opportunity there.