[Leica] The wedding photographer rag

[Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>]

On the other side of that coin, a friend's son got married recently.  Their
pictures too were all b&w, 35mm, mostly available light, PJ-style, not posed
or cliched.  They were also poorly composed, out-of-focus, badly exposed,
and and gave very little sense of the event.  All of this while using AF
cameras, zoom lenses and TTL flash, too!  Of 12 36-exposure rolls shot by
the husband-and-wife team, the couple had a problem choosing 18 shots for an
album.  The could have used a few more posed, cliched photos for their
$8,000...

To add insult to injury, the photogs simply gave the couple the exposed,
unprocessed film and said see you later.  I guess they weren't too concerned
with copyright issues, what with getting payment like that for the quality
they delivered.

As an ex-wedding photographer, performance like this infuriates me more than
I can say.  Good wedding photographers have my undying respect - it takes a
very particular sort of person to do that kind of photography well, week
after week after week.  They are indeed a rare breed.

Paul Chefurka

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Disfromage@aol.com [mailto:Disfromage@aol.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 11:56 AM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] generations about "photographers"
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>In a message dated 5/15/00 8:25:56 PM, you wrote:
>
><<1 in 100 Wedding photographers. Darn hard to find the good 
>ones! They are 
>mainly
>> an insult to photographers and photography. But the good 
>ones are out 
>there! If
>> you are lucky and live in a larger town.>>
>
>I agree about most wedding photographers...but.  A friend of 
>mine recently 
>was showing me photos of her daughter's wedding.  They were 
>all black and 
>white, available light and PJ style-not posed and not cliched.  I was 
>impressed, both with the photographer, and my friend and her 
>family for 
>wanting that kind of record of the wedding.  It really was 
>refreshing to see. 
> 
>
>Richard Wasserman  
>