In article <19970207055400.AAA12672@ladder01.news.aol.com>, davebunger@aol.com says...

>I read all the responses and I didn't hear what I think to be the MOST
>important rule of all. BE NICE! I don't know, you'd think this would be
>obvious, but ...
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You made a nice point about not interrupting nice moments, and
either capturing them as they happen (or going back and recreating
them...). I (my personal opinion on this) consider my job at a wedding
to be the recording of what happens (recreations are artificial,
the photos are not records of real events...) - and I try to do
this with minimal interference and direction (no, "Smile!" - or
running the event), using (as much as possible) available light
to show the event as natural-looking as possible. I hate the
traditional-type of wedding photos (that all look alike,
and which, with a little cut-and-paste with faces, need
not actually be reshot at all with every new wedding...;-).
(The gauzy-edged high-key photo of the bride staring vacantly
up at who-knows-what is my biggest pet peeve wedding cliche photo.)
I stay out of the way, but I cover just about everything at a
wedding, and shoot about 400-600 negatives doing it (people
comment about not noticing me, and about how I seem to
have been everywhere [to have covered so much],
and about how much fun I seem to be having
[when they do notice me]).
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