Hardest Wedding I Ever Photographed
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- A South Coast wedding in 2014 proved to be the most challenging wedding I have ever photographed.
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Wedding photography, you are a braver man than I! Great job you did, difficulties aside. I couldn't think of a more stressful photography job to take on, missing those fleeting moments and one can't go back, and you got quality results. BTW, I saw one video of a wedding photographer, and the guy as doing what the couple who hired him asked while being unobtrusive. Nonetheless, the officiant stopped the service to chew out the photographer. The photographer, mortified, did HIS best to keep it from getting more awkward. I'd have been angry and then some if I were one half of the couple being wed, and kudos to the photographer for keeping his cool, he really was the bigger person between him and the officiant.
Kind of off topic, but your candid shots in this remind me of a movie called Countdown to D-Day. It's about, naturally enough, the planning of the D-Day landing in WW2. The director of the movie was running around with a still camera during shooting, and other cast and crew sarcastically remarked that he's found a hobby. But what the director was doing was taking still shots that he planned to use as intros to each scene of the movie, something that worked out to a really neat effect in the movie, it was of the cast in unguarded moments. I recommend watching it for that reason alone, but seeing what those American, Canadian and UK troops went through to liberate France is something I think we should keep in mind from time to time. Another movie, although (IMO) rather cartoonish in parts, worth watching is The Patriot with Mel Gibson because they SO nailed the lighting in that movie.
Well done Alex. This was great, plus we saw more of your work.
More like this please! 😍 Best video in a long while!!
Hi Alex: I have shot a few weddings for family members and close-friends and the pressure of doing this is incredible. Thank you so much for sharing your approach to shooting this wedding. The images are wonderful and I am sure that the bride and groom were so happy with the images that you had crafted for them. Keep well. Cheers, Keith
I tried wedding photography. I gave it up after 3 weddings. I concluded it wasn’t worth the aggravation.
Yep, too many people involved; never good.
That was magnificent! I especially loved the black and white of the bride and groom.
I photographed weddings for 20 years, it is not advisable unless you are technically 100 percent. It incorporates selling, portraiture, organising groups of people, architectural photography, food photography, macro, creative flash, (very important in winter), having a plan for adverse weather conditions, back ups of backups and all while being amiable and professional. Finally, over delivering to a satisfied customer. When it goes right it's easy, when it goes wrong is when you earn your money.
Thank you for sharing your experience on this wedding venue, although I have never photographed a wedding, I found this video very interesting and informative.
This was great! Hearing about the situations you had to deal with, how you did, and seeing the results is a such a good format. You're a good storyteller.
Alex, thanks for a great insight into wedding or event photography. The tips and priorities are so helpful. Understanding light with movement, appropriateness and even etiquette at such an occasion, is all really valuable. That is why this channel is a must for photographers. Brilliant!
Great images, particularly the B&Ws, this non obstructive procedure is totally my style. I did a bunch of weddings and loved every part. I especially love the technical aspect, adapting to the ever changing conditions.
I'm watching along and realize I'm feeling increasingly anxious about juggling lenses while keeping my B&W vs. Colour body straight. And then came the candles! 🤣
Well done sir!
Thankx for this new video ! I love the documentary style you applied here. Our son is getting married this year and they both want that style as well, so it was interresting to watch you doing it. Photos look stunning, one would'nt think that you had any challenges ! 😉 Great background info and thought patterns , Thankx !
That's why it's so important to dominate gear/flash and know light, so we can handle any situation with it, if necessary. I always carry a flash with me. These kind of situations are common here where I live.
Right?! No need to settle for blurry photos.
@@MaunoKoivistoOfficial only if that’s intended, but in that cases I normally use the rear curtain to do the job. If the photographer knows what he’s doing and the client approves the final result, then everybody wins
A friend asked me to photograph her granddaughter's wedding. I hope I never get asked to photograph another one.
Amazing story! Thank you for share this really helps me understand that the core understanding of your gear plays a part to becoming a better photographer, and leaning the fundamentals of taking a shot.
You have to get in the thick of things to really test your wit and in the end you learn from it.
I also remember my first wedding. The nerves and me looking at my camera making sure I had everything right.
Your photos so rich with life and energy. Nothing like capturing the moment and holding on to those memories for the bride and the groom.
Love what you've captured!
Great story. Definitely takes courage and a lot of skill to pull that off like you did.
Thank you for sharing that experience with us. Hearing the thought process is instructive. I hope to hear it echoing in my brain for my next challenge of that nature.
How about a timelapse of their marriage or entropy of social relations in general?
We all have to do some thinking while working :) I wish I asked you to take pics at my own wedding. Best from Copenhagen.
I enjoyed this video and the stroy you were telling.
Good stuff. Very nice.
Thanks for sharing.
Great photos, both colour and black and white. I think you had a successful day 👍
Your anecdote reminds me of the 80s, using my F3 (a museum piece which I still have). The film stock would give a limited ASA choice, then you'd work out your exposure, and after that you could concentrate on composition. It was simpler, it was creative, but by damn it could lead to some stunning disasters at proof time.
I think your wedding photos are amazing:fly on the wall amazing.
Hi Alex, great Wedding and great advice, to focus on what's important and not to overthink. There were great natural shots like when the Bride and Groom laughing, they probably forgot the camera was even there. They are the best shots, next time i go to a Wedding i will try the wide angle lens. Very enjoyable and useful video this was for me. thank you. 😊
Weddings are tough but you did an amazing job
Shooting weddings may destroy your love of photography forever
Thanks for this! Once a year, I shoot a charity party event, winter mid-afternoon to early evening. t's held in a local restaurant, and the evening lighting is absolutely abysmal. I don't use flash, so the answer is generally high iso and wide open to get the desired shutter speed. Loved your results, and I'll probably watch this video a few more times before then. Cheers!
informative contrent
Light was always a threat! Weddings are fun! But.. Your images simply great! I love 'candids' but used way too much film, or edit forever on Fluffing digital.
What do you mean you didn't bring the f0.7?
Alex I actually understand what you went through. Every Sunday I shoot pictures of our church's praise and worship service. I also shoot photos of the volunteers. First of all, I have to be careful to keep children out of the photos because some of the parents don't want their kids to be photographed. With a lit up stage and a darkened room, I don't always notice Mom standing there with a child in her arms, and the child looking right at my camera. So I sometimes have to create some pretty interesting crops to remove a child that I didn't see while photographing the service. Secondly, the media team loves to use multi colored lights for praise and worship. They also use low light. It took me weeks of taking horrible pictures to figure out the best settings to produce good quality images. I should point out that I own a Nikon D5100 (a crop sensor camera with a 16.2 megapixel sensor.) It makes shooting low light images intresting to say the least. I had to spend money that my wife really didn't want me to spend to purchase a 50mm f1.8 prime lens so I could shoot from the back of the room at f2.8, auto ISO with a max ISO 6400, and a shutter speed no slower than 1/120th of a second, and no faster than 1/160th of a second. Our praise and worship team does not stand still while singing. Finally, my camera is set up for praise and worship. The lighting is entirely different when the room is lit up, which means I have to change my settings for regular photos, and then change them back for praise and worship. I don't always remember to change the settings. So yes, I kind of understand what you went through on that day. I applaud your talent and ingenuity.
I can guess the lens’ but I would be interested to know what camera you used as I like to know what different cameras look like. *edit. Is it a Fuji?
Even your "bad" wedding photos are better than the best ones I got from the guy who did mine.
This is pretty much virtually every job I do outside the studio, B&W is great to mask hideous lighting too.
To avoid weddings make sure you have garlic a sharpened wooden steak holy water and a cross lol
for a while I really wnjoyed weddings. Then all the long days, travelling and having a family of my own got too much.
@@ThePhotographicEye it was exciting at first but after a while it does get tedious especially with the drunk uncle who keeps saying take my picture lol
I have to go back and watch it again my provider decided to dump the internet right in the middle of it ugh
Ex-goth huh? Yea right.
It wasn't quite what I wanted to create, so needed to go back to the drawing board on it
@@ThePhotographicEye Well that was not meant to throw shade on your work but the fact that you are an ex-goth, kind of like when Souixsie and Eldritch deny the label if you know what I mean. ;)
@@dr.strangelove5708 lol - I replied to the wrong comment! But no offence taken re Goth. I was at a Sisters concert last year thinking how all these goth looking people (not emo :P) probably don't call themselves goth. I was never really hardcore - never touched a bottle of Black #1 :D
Empty cup! Stop whinging. Just do the job. Nobody is forcing you do this. Just do the work. You did great! You did your best! That's it. 🙂
Was this video created to sell picdrop and earn you some cash? Sorry for being cynical - but was it?
Lol are you new to the internet?
A sponsored video on RUclips? Who woulda thunk?