On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:11:44PM -0600, Bill wrote: > > > > >Well, yes there is: Mothers who don't have the first clue as to > >how to go about matching skin tones between their neck and their > >face. > > > I shot a wedding a couple of decades ago where the bride and > bridesmaids had pooled their cosmetics inventories and did their > make-up out of the combined resources from several (cheap) brands. > In normal light, everything looked more or less fine, given that not > one of them knew a thing about applying facial cosmetics. > Unfortunately, electronic flash is not normal light. It has a fairly > high % of UV light, which caused the various brands of make-up to > fluoresce differently. > There were zebra stripes, swirls, mottles, splotches and pretty much > every make up fail imaginable on all 5 girls in the wedding party > (even the Flower Girl got monster make up) in EVERY picture, since > even the available light work was done with some fill flash. > Add to it a couple of drunken uncles and a jealous ex girlfriend of > the groom who showed up with the bride's kid brother (who the groom > didn't like much), and yes, I would go out on a limb and say that > there is worse. > > Much worse. > > At least you have Photoshop.
There are few things quite like wedding photography to make me glad that I can make a living from programming computers. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
