Thanks Tim. I'm still processing pics. Several hours worth of work yesterday, more today. But I enjoy it. I'm doing a lot of fine tuning of color, investigating different crops, and doing some retouching where necessary. I fixed the groom's overly long trousers:-). Paul the Tailor On Dec 9, 2006, at 8:45 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote:
> No harm in blowing it. > The bride is supposed to cry. > > A fine relaxed atmosphere in the photos, BTW. > > > Tim > Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Paul > Stenquist > Sent: 8. desember 2006 06:55 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: PESO: I don't shoot weddings > > I shot a few weddings in the seventies, and I was cured. The > organizational work was a big pain in the ass. You really have to be > devoted to the whole wedding shoot scenario to make it work. It can't > be an on again, off again thing. > > That being said, a very good friend, who happens to be my all time > favorite model, was married this week. This was one of those tax- > deduction gotta get married now things. They're going to have another > wedding next summer, with a real wedding photographer. So since this > was just a warmup, I offered to shoot it for them. I knew they didn't > want to spend money on a wedding photographer. I've shot hundreds of > magazine articles and numerous events, but weddings frighten me. It > only happens once, and if you blow it, the bride will cry. > > Fortunately, it went well. The ceremony was at a courthouse. It was > a justice of the peace ceremony, but the presiding judge let me > shoot what I wanted. Fortuitously enough,. my house and studio are > only a couple of miles from the courthosue, so I whisked bride and > groom to my house and shot a few studio shots. Finally, there was a > dinner at a Polish restaurant in Hammtramck, Michigan. (I had some > duck blood soup. Yum)/ > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5304990 > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5304992&size=lg > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
