Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Amen. Those pins still hurt. From very limited experience, I think you have to be smart, invisible, charming, technically perfect, and able to anticipate everything a minute before it happens. Then you have to be in two places at once, insert yourself without ruining the moment, capture fantasy rather than the reality, and charm your way out again. I can't imagine how I ever thought I could do it. The worst was the first. It was a wedding and reception in a dark church. I decided to shoot 'chromes (when you goof up, its best to go all the way). The pastor watched me patiently testing the lighting during practice the day before, and then turned the lights down on the morning of the ceremony and announced that flash would not be permitted in the church. (Good Idea, beautiful ceremony, nice music, flash would have intruded, but...) No, the really worst part was showing them the proofs and having them select all the bad ones. After that, I stuck a few more pins in the voodoo doll myself. Mike Quinn Mark Rabiner mused: > Weddings are looked down upon by other photographers but the real reason is NO > GUTS. They don't know what TRUE FEAR is and don't want to know.> I shot about > 100 weddings in 20 years the truth comes out. Nothing beats those > deviled eggs and polyester dresses! > No redos' with weddings!!!! "Fly'em back in!!" Everything has GOT TO WORK! > Anything less that technical perfection and being more than two places at once > results in the family making a little photograph voodoo doll which gleefully > gets pins put in it for the duration of the known continuum.