Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/21
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On 2/20/04 9:51 AM, "Jon" <jon.stanton@comcast.net> wrote:
> My daughter is being married at the end of May and in in effort to keep
> everything as inexpensive as possible (Her choice & her parents delight) she
> has requested that instead of using the services of a wedding photographer,
> make available to the wedding/reception attendees disposable cameras. I
> mentioned this to a friend of mine who s a 100% working Fashion
> Photographer. He thought it was a great idea as long as "little kids" didn't
> get control of the cameras. He also offered to do some shooting if he were
> in town, but with the admonition that it was as a favor, that most
> photographers did not care for weddings.
> To the group...Are there any preferred disposable cameras? We will have both
> color and b/w available. Thanks!!
>
>
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Weddings usually consist of just about most everyone shooting pictures with
their own cameras fairly constantly. Sometimes its only half the people.
Rarely less. Handing out cardboard ones would aggravate the unfortunate
situation in at least two different ways.
They came to play with their own cameras
More clicking. Flashing.
What every happened to a wedding where people talked to each other. Ate.
Danced. Nowadays all they do is play with cameras. Haven't you been to a
wedding lately?
I haven't.
I bet they're all shooting everything with their cell phones.
Long after you've forgotten what the priest or judge said at the wedding to
get them married you've got the pictures. If you've got a video then what
was said at the alter will be remembered. The sound is more than half of it.
A tape recordist and a still photographer would do it. They won't let you do
that. "Half Nagra will Travel". Just like they didnšt let you have chocolate
cake when I first started in the wedding biz which is when I got married
myself. Most people hire the wedding photographer just about first.
Putting the pictures at this low of a priority is a mistake.
That's my very biased opinion (except that I'm right) as a photographer
whose done 150 weddings over 25 years. Which in effect means I'd been in the
wedding business for 25 years. But 6 weddings a year is nothing. These guys
do that on a weekend.
I'm just as fond, though of being called a wedding photographer as I am
"Marky Mark".
Believe me when they yell fire you'll forget your cat - forget your pearls
but will grab that wedding book as you run choking out the door.
Hopefully with your wife.
Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland, Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/
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