Re: [Leica] The shortest 4-letter word in photography

[Thomas Kachadurian <tom@kachadurian.com>]

ENO:

Be careful when you lack knowledge. You wrote, "Excuse the members, 
but Wedding photography is more like a pro's last resort."

Try shooting a few weddings and then get back to us about that last 
statement. I enjoy a business that allows be to shoot many things, 
and choose only the projects I know I will enjoy. I do a fair number 
of weddings even thought they represent some of the most difficult, 
longest, most pressure filled days. They can also be the most fun.

Consider this. When I shoot an editorial story, after spending a good 
long day shootiing maybe 300 photographs I'll give the art director 
40. He or she will choose maybe 12 to discuss with the editors and 
they'll use 5. That's a day or so of shooting for 5 great 
photographs. With that sort of percentage you'd be out of the wedding 
business in about a ceremony.

Also, it's well suited to using a Leica M. I don't use my Leicas 
much, but probably 80% of my Leica frames are exposed at weddings.

Tom
Thomas Kachadurian
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