Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Robinsnes@aol.com wrote: > > I am a wedding and portrait photographer. I ofter have people at > weddings refuse to have their picture taken, even candidly. I speak with them > and attempt to elicit their cooperation. If the answer is no, I stay away or > speak to the bride and groom and request that someone from the family > approach them. This usually solves the problem.snip In my wedding days I gleefully found that fulfilling the role of the wedding photographer meant a licence to shoot people in the most compromising and idiotic situations with all the leeway in the world. Nobody thought otherwise. The role of the wedding photographer has become so well defined in many of our cultures. We had pretty much a free licence to shoot anything. "Blast 'em with our Normans" People with food all over their face. I used to get dragged into the Ladies Dressing Rooms or worse. A surreal slice of life! Mark Rabiner