Wedding Surprise!

kshapero

kshapero

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Last week I was at wedding. One of my pet peeves is to check out what equipment the wedding photographers use. There were two photographers and one videographer. All told there 5 camera bodies. All five were Nikon D750's!. I asked one of them if they are all part of the same crew and he told me each are one of free lance on their own. What coincidence! No Canon's and no Nikon "pro" bodies. Really says something about the D750. Me, I had an M3 with Tri-X.
 
My son got married a few weeks ago. The photographer had the latest Canon FF, and the two videographers were using Sony A7's.
 
I hope they managed to stay out of each other's way! Also, that guests were looking at only one camera when group photos were being taken. Sounds like a recipe for confusion.
 
Usually on a multi-photographer shoot like that, the second one does candids, while the first one does all the ceremony and set-ups, and coordinates with the videographer. Not unusual for all of them to be freelance, sometimes the main photographer is tasked with finding the others since they may be familiar with ones they have worked with before. A friend of mine once asked me to sub for him on a wedding with the very same set-up of two stills, and video. I did all the candids.


PF
 
farlymac said:
Usually on a multi-photographer shoot like that, the second one does candids, while the first one does all the ceremony and set-ups, and coordinates with the videographer. Not unusual for all of them to be freelance, sometimes the main photographer is tasked with finding the others since they may be familiar with ones they have worked with before. A friend of mine once asked me to sub for him on a wedding with the very same set-up of two stills, and video. I did all the candids.


PF
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That makes sense. It was just rare to see 5 bodies at an event with all of them being the same brand and model.
 
To me the obvious question is:- were they all male? (Asking about the opener; I can guess from the above... )

In the good old days when beer was 2d a pint etc, I'd take my wife who used an Olympus XA or XA2 for the candid shots. She was allowed places I was banned from and, obviously, the little baby XA's don't frighten people...

Regards, David
 
kshapero said:
Last week I was at wedding. One of my pet peeves is to check out what equipment the wedding photographers use. There were two photographers and one videographer. All told there 5 camera bodies. All five were Nikon D750's!.
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As a D750 user, I say... That's awesome! :D
 
Last wedding I attended a couple weeks ago, the wedding photographer crew (there's always a crew these days, never one photographer anymore) were all outfitted with Canon DSLR's and were shooting both stills and video.

I was shooting a 1936 Kodak Duo Six-20, but then, I'm a luddite.

Best,
-Tim
 
I have shot a few weddings (all Canon DSLR). One I even did video for (also Canon DSLR)...it's not what I do normally.

I'd LOVE it couples were bold enough to ask for B&W film only photos. If that became a thing, I think I would start doing weddings.
 
kshapero said:
..Really says something about the D750..
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The files from the D750 are amazing.. they're so malleable it's beyond belief. You can really work on those files without getting artifacts. And set to 14bit lossless, there's so much detail and dynamic range, that you can do wonders with the shadows..
 
kshapero said:
Last week I was at wedding. One of my pet peeves is to check out what equipment the wedding photographers use. There were two photographers and one videographer. All told there 5 camera bodies. All five were Nikon D750's!. I asked one of them if they are all part of the same crew and he told me each are one of free lance on their own. What coincidence! No Canon's and no Nikon "pro" bodies. Really says something about the D750. Me, I had an M3 with Tri-X.
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I got married a couple of weeks ago, both the photographer and our driver had full frame Canon DSLRs.

I shot a couple of rolls of Natura 1600 on a Pentax ME Super
 
our photographer actually will be shooting with an XT-2 The engagement photos turned out better than I expected.

Whenever I attend weddings I will often bring along my M5 or in the past my M4 and it always seems to turn the heads of the photographers who are shooting at the wedding.
 
farlymac said:
Usually on a multi-photographer shoot like that, the second one does candids, while the first one does all the ceremony and set-ups, and coordinates with the videographer. Not unusual for all of them to be freelance, sometimes the main photographer is tasked with finding the others since they may be familiar with ones they have worked with before. A friend of mine once asked me to sub for him on a wedding with the very same set-up of two stills, and video. I did all the candids.


PF
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I don't see anything wrong with that, I just never heard of it. I only did 4 or 5 weddings and did them by myself. I usually had my Fujica ST901, and Yashica TL Super as backup, then the Super Press 23 with a 65mm and 100mm lens. No video, although I did do that exclusively one time as a special request. I got roped into that by the chaplain who officiated.

Imagine, all film, except for that video. Guess I am dating myself, huh?
 
When I was hired to be the photographer for an event like a wedding, I always had an associate photographer. For me, the best surprise was no surprise.

The most important tool is the person using the equipment.
 
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