Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I do consider wedding photos to be terribly dull and actually showing people your wedding photos, well, it's a crime against culture, but Johannes's recent post about weddings and photography ... well, whatever, here are some shots i grabbed at a friends wedding. forgive me for being pedestrian. http://www.asc.upenn.edu/scrapbook/1999/richandmaureen/ people constantly ask me to shoot their weddings and i always say "no, it's not my thing, i shoot UFO hoaxes and models wearing humorous get-up's and garter belts with holga's: that's my thing and i do it okay. you want a wedding, hire a pro, they do it all the time and they know what they're doing. you get a yellow rubber prom dress and a japaneese sword and a pink corvette stingray and a life size barbie doll and a boyfriend who looks just like fidel castro in 1965 and you want some photos, you call me, we'll talk ... that's my thing." ... but since i always carry a camera with me, i always end up taking _some_ photographs at the weddings i attend -- usually they're drunken bridesmades barfing in hotel parking lots, (i tend to gravitate towards that kind of action) but on a good day one or two of my shots look like something that b.d. colen might have taken on a bad day so i'm happy with them. a couple of these turned out okay, but on the whole, it looks like something a retired dentist would have shot, so don't expect too much, i'm out of book on this one. they're all w/ a leica m6 and a jupiter 35 2.8 on ilford hp5 at 400 asa, developed in hc-110 dilution b and scanned on a nikon coolscan 1000. leically yours, kc