Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:33 AM 3/28/01 -0600, brougham3@yahoo.com wrote: >My wedding photos came out ok. Just ok. I wasn't a happy camper that he >told us at the last minute that his assistant would be doing most of them. >You have to start sometime...but not at *my* wedding. Well, actually at my >wedding, as it turned out. :) > >If I had it all to do over, I'd stay away from portrait/wedding >photographers and go with a commercial photog, like Mark says. OK. You weren't happy with your experience with your Wedding Photographer's behaviour (and you shouldn't have been with a bait and switch...that's why you should read the contract before you sign.) So because you got burned by a disreputable wedding shooter, we are all beneath consideration and you suggest that any prospective couple should seek out a Commercial Photographer to shoot their wedding instead? Had it occurred that not all Photographers are listed as Wedding Photographers because (as has been discussed at length here on the LUG in the past) not all Photographers can shoot weddings, enjoy shooting weddings and/or have any experience shooting weddings? No, I'm not slighting Commercial Photographers, I wouldn't suggest that someone hire a Portrait/Wedding Photographer to shoot a Stock Prospectus or a Catalogue Layout either....that's why most photographers specialize. Being a wedding shooter (like being a photojournalist) is a cross discipline genre. In just about every wedding a good photographer should be able to shoot, editorial pictures (candids and the increasingly popular "PJ style" wedding), formal portraits (of couple and family and chosen guests), environmental portraits (mostly of other vendors) and product shots (rings, cake, presents, etc...) all in mixed and changing-by-the-minute light. While any given photographer may excel at getting the photographs that you want for any job, we all have strengths, weaknesses and preferences. That is why shopping for a wedding photographer to find someone with whom you feel good and whose work you like is so important. I'm curious and baffled, would you also suggest someone with prostate problems consult a gynecologist for relief? Carpe Luminem, Michael E. Bérubé http://www.GoodPhotos.com