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From: "Paul Stenquist"
Subject: Re: Survey: Your Favorite Wedding Photos
Bull bleep. It's obvious someone here hasn't shot a wedding in a long
time.No wedding photographer I know uses a tripod for portraits. And some
of them get 8K per wedding. Do you use a tripod in your studio? I
certainly wouldn't. It interferes with composing and spontaneity.
I shot my last wedding last May.
My wedding career probably netted me about a thousand weddings
I did reporatge style weddings before they were called reportage style
weddings. The advent of 35mm cameras led to reportage style weddings, so I
was shooting that style as long ago as 1972 or so.
But for formal photography, which by definition is not "reportage style", we
used a tripod. We did it then, and the smart people still do.
And yes, I use a tripod in my studio. The chief photographer in our studio
uses a tripod in the studio.
We have two other photographers as well, one uses a tripod, one doesn't.
One persons work always needs to be rotated slightly in one direction or the
other in post production to make his pictures look straight.
You wanna guess which one?
If you can't compose a picture with a camera on a tripod you are, IMHO, a
shitty photographer.
Frankly, I get really tired of the "I know someone who charges a pile of
money doing it wrong so it must be right" line or reasoining you are so
quick to spout off with.
I know a guy here who charges through the nose for renovating houses. A
couple of years ago a house he was putting a basement under collapsed into
the excavation because he hadn't supported the building properly when he
jacked it up.
It cost a family their home and almost killed the crew working under the
building.
Charging a shit pile of money doesn't mean you aren't a fuck-up, it just
means you are a good wanker.
Consider yourself told.
William Robb
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