Comments on: Who Gets Excited About Wedding Photography?

By: Sergey Bogun

Sergey Bogun — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:29:24 +0000

I think It would be very interesting to watch and to learn anything new about it!! I was invited at my friend’s wedding to make some photos a few weeks ago and I wished this post had appeared little bit earlier to help me =)))

By: Patrick Hall Admin

Patrick Hall Admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:14:09 +0000

Florin, that is why I enjoy weddings so much. Anyone can make a compelling photo when you have hair, makeup, models, and an iphone ha! In all seriousness, weddings are tough work and you can incorporate commercial, fashion style lighting, portraiture, macro (with the rings), and in a sense sports shooting because you are constantly reading people and having to track focus quickly. I’m convinced that an amazing wedding photographer can do it all and it def helps people figure out what field they’d like to ultimately go into. Plus it pays better than any other field in photography I’ve found yet. New wedding videos are on the way for sure!

By: Florin Cojoc

Florin Cojoc — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:05:59 +0000

hi, I really think that wedding photography is very difficult because you never have time to think (at least this is the case in Spain where I live) and because you’re not working with models that are getting paid to pose…I both love and hate it but I’m sure I’d like to see somm wedding BTS.
Florin

By: Ghislain

Ghislain — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:57:56 +0000

86% who wants to see this, told ya it was a thing to show buddy! :)

By: Nathan Shanahan

Nathan Shanahan — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:56:22 +0000

A loaded poll, I didn’t want to vote “weddings are lame” but at the same time I am much more interested in seeing behind the scenes videos from fashion and commercial shoots.

By: Picture Zealot

Picture Zealot — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:12:52 +0000

Wedding photography has become more ‘fashionable’ since I was doing them a couple of decades ago.

I’m sure there are many who shoot them and don’t want to admit it because their goal is some other type of photography.

Plus there are so many aspects that overlap with other types of photography.

So I think a lot of people would love it.

Jeff

By: Elisha Yopp

Elisha Yopp — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:18:13 +0000

I think it would be awesome if you did some wedding BTS videos.

By: c.d.embrey

c.d.embrey — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:08:19 +0000

@Patrick Hall Admin

There are other things beside wedding, portrait and events in the photo world. Things like editorial, advertising (both print and tv commercials). I’ve been doing this for a long time and if it all went away I’d get out of photography because I don’t like doing drudge work. And to me weddings, portrait and events are drudge work. As I said before YMMV.

By: Patrick Hall Admin

Patrick Hall Admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:33:42 +0000

Embrey, are you really saying you’d work for $7 an hour taking orders at McDonalds when you could be making 20x that working one day a week and having free time and money to do any other type of photography you want on the other 6 days? You must be a harder worker than I; I have a hard time eating McDonalds yet alone working there for a day.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:31:47 +0000

c.d.embrey –
I never meant to imply that you or any photographer who doesn’t do wedding photography is a snob. I said those who sneer at it are snobs. It’s understandable to not enjoy a genre, it’s another to look down on it. I trust you’re the former not the latter.

No offense intended. Just different strokes for different folks.