On Jan 24, 2007, at 1:20 AM, J and K Messervy wrote: > ... Any and all tips, tricks and advice would be greatly appreciated!
Once upon a time in my ill-spent youth, I had an arrangement with a local wedding photographer to do B&W candids at weddings where he did all the formally posed shots. My deal was an added value service ... the promise was to provide a small book of 50-100 additional B&W photos, 5x7 size, taken during the service and reception, out of the way of the standard fare, and get $100 per event for my time (given that this was 1973-1974, that was a lot of money for a high school kid!). Total charge for the service was $175 on top of the arranged wedding photo contract, whatever that was. I did it for about a year, about 15 weddings. Most responses to my work were positive, occasionally I got a couple of reprint orders. Once or twice I got the the compliment that they liked my candids better than the official pro shots. It proved a very low-stress way of working weddings. Watching the pro do his schtick convinced me that I'd never want to do that work in a thousand years. i haven't even attended weddings since, except on very very rare occasion for the closest of friends, never mind photographed them. What people want today in wedding photographs I haven't the foggiest idea. My inclination when people ask if I would like to do a wedding is to flee. ;-) G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
