Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/26

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] Doing your Kid's Wedding
From: jon.stanton at comcast.net (jon.stanton@comcast.net)
Date: Tue Apr 26 14:02:44 2005

Frank,
>From first hand experience...My daughter was married just a year ago. I 
>thought I might be able to do some shooting "fawgittaboutit" You will be 
>way to busy coordinating traffic, shaking hands following your wife orders 
>etc. We had 2 wedding photographers...one was the official guy that did all 
>the formal stuff...poses etal. He shot with a Hassy, charged by the hour 
>and gave us all the negatives. The other photographer was a close friend 
>who is a working pro....shoots models. He took about 6 rolls of 35mm 
>shooting through a small Contax...His shots with about 3 exceptions were 
>all great...the 3? Simply out of focus.  He managed to be a fly on the wall 
>catching dozens of great scenes....Just a wonderful eye...The shots I was 
>able to get off? Outside of church, church courtyard...no opportunity for 
>anything else. Enjoy the moment of your child's wedding...

Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Doing your Kid's Wedding)