newrmdmike and thebeginnings adventures at a vietnameise wedding

newrmdmike · Mar 28, 2007

so me and daniel shot a wedding together a while back, and we thought it would be amusing to post shots of each other from the wedding . . . after 20 hours together that day we have more than a few shots of each other.

heres me the day before scoping out the church and trying to talk this dog into modeling.

hmmm this may be a well documented wedding, i see 6 cameras in this shot.

this is me messing up dans shot by confusing everyone, notice half the ppl are now looking at my camera, haha.

dan, in the bottom right . . .

we like to have a very personal friendly . . . well just look

i even caught him chimping!

dan being welcomed into the reception

dan, competing with the videographer for a spot.

this is great, hes leaning on that guy, and is tired so he has to hold the cam strap w his other hand while holding a 480. . . dan, it may be time for a bracket or somthing.

heres are print sales going down the drain to some amatuers

Rayna' · Mar 28, 2007

love your headband dan!

JimmyJaceyMom · Mar 28, 2007

Haha you guys seem like lots of fun! Looks like a long hard days work. So sis you already post the real ones form that day? I bet you got some awesome ones!

newrmdmike · Mar 28, 2007

more to come!

newrmdmike · Mar 28, 2007

no, we havn't posted any real shots yet, don't expect that for a few weeks, we've been putting off processing a bit

JimmyJaceyMom · Mar 28, 2007

cool, can't wait to see. And can't wait to do weddings either.

thebeginning · Mar 28, 2007

newrmdmike said:
we like to have a very personal friendly . . . well just look

^ chyeaaaah

newrmdmike said:
i even caught him chimping!

^I think the word is blinking...haha. and what is this 'chimp' word you speak of?? :lol:

newrmdmike said:
dan being welcomed into the reception

^ dude. I was just being funny... for some reason the word 'flamboyant' comes to mind...:shock:

newrmdmike said:
this is great, hes leaning on that guy, and is tired so he has to hold the cam strap w his other hand while holding a 480. . . dan, it may be time for a bracket or somthing.

^hahaha yesss! actually I wasn't leaning on him...but we'll pretend I was because that's funnier.

newrmdmike said:
heres are print sales going down the drain to some amatuers

^how dare you, that's blasphemy!!

thebeginning · Mar 28, 2007

here are some from me...

let me know if you want any off here mike

waiting for the reception to begin (shall we say):

shootin a bridal portrait:

mike looking confused in the balcony:

dangit, mike!

downtown houston:

with his girlfriend/our awesome assistant:

can't touch this:

aaaand of course:

thebeginning · Mar 30, 2007

bump

I think we might have scared 'em away, mike

LittleMan · Mar 30, 2007

I find it funny that y'all are messing up each others photos by being in the frame... :lol:

Rayna' · Mar 30, 2007

more please!

karissa · Mar 30, 2007

Haha,... to fun!

RMThompson · Mar 31, 2007

I personally dont find it fun at all. I mean, I assume you had time, but were you shooting this wedding professionaly? I would assume you were and if so, the attention should be on the bride and her party. What if you were getting a shot of your buddy, and you missed out on a great shot of the bride?

I dont have the most equipment, or make the most money, but I would never play around at a pro gig.

thebeginning · Mar 31, 2007

RMThompson said:
I personally dont find it fun at all. I mean, I assume you had time, but were you shooting this wedding professionaly? I would assume you were and if so, the attention should be on the bride and her party. What if you were getting a shot of your buddy, and you missed out on a great shot of the bride?

I dont have the most equipment, or make the most money, but I would never play around at a pro gig.

haha are you serious??

first off...yes we were shooting this professionally. second, who said weddings couldn't be fun? in fact I find it better in almost every situation to try to lighten the mood as much as possible. you need to maintain a level of respect with your clients (in this case a bride and groom) but they need to like you as a person as well. I know when and when not to act 'fun'. None of the shots you see here caused us to lose any critical shots (and we got a lot of critical shots...over 30 gigs worth). If they would have, we would not have taken them. The only ones that even get remotely close to that were the ones where we were in each other's photos by accident. that happens. all the other shots were shots taken when there was nothing else to do (like when mike was taking the bridal portraits, I was not needed), test shots or shots taken when we had a break (between the ceremony and reception there was a 4 hour break. we had already completed the detail shots in the reception). none of these shots took more than a single second to compose and snap, anyway.

i respect your opinion and how seriously you take your clients (I too take my clients extremely seriously) but I also know that there is a point where there is 'too much serious', resulting in a stiff relationship between client and photographer.

JimmyJaceyMom · Mar 31, 2007

I would think that as a professional you would know which clients appreciate a sense of humor and which prefer that you do your thing quietly. I think they have to be comfortable and so do you, if a photographer were too serious it may make some nervous.. even on my wedding day I was not keen about having cameras on me (we didn't even have a photographer) but I think these two would have put me at ease about that!