Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]hey folks -- last week linda and i went to her cousin mike's wedding and, as i sometimes do, i tossed a leica and a 50 1.5 into the car and took a couple of pictures in between challenging the best man to "just one more shot, you sissy." my own personal perception is that i probably got better shots than the pro they hired. but that's just my own casual observation. he seemed to somehow be missing everything -- but in any event we get a call from someone in the family who says "can we see the pix you took?" and my ethical dilema is ... if i show them the pix now, it'll most likely screw the real photographer out of a lot of reprints -- after all, why spend $80 on an 8x10 when your cousin has one just as good and he's willing to give you the negatives. so my inclination is to put off letting anybody see anything for at least a couple of months, and then just make them a wedding present of all the negs. i think it's rude to get in the way of the real photographer, and it's even ruder to undercut his bread and butter. but at the same time, i get to look like a real rube to the family -- and also, what's my obligation to them? why should i be siding with someone i don't even know?.... what would you do? what's the wedding ettiquitte? i'd like to hear from anybody who actually _shoots_ weddings too. maybe i could just give them 3 8x10's now and in a couple months send them the rest? and in case anybody's interested in the awesome power of a canon 50mm f 1.5 in ltm on a leica m6: http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/5-12-01-wedding/ kc (not that you could pay me to look at someone elses wedding pictures even if robert capa took them)