Do you take your DSLR if you are a guest at a wedding?

[Sagitta]

One adbvantage of bringing your gear (or even your point and shoot) is that you can be where the pros are not, and catch shots that the hired pros will not. Having been through the whole 'getting hitched' thing myself, I was actually grateful for the extra cameras floating around and even did the 'give every table a disposable' thing (which, by the way, was a collossal failure since everyone took shots of the reception from across the hall giving us dozens of underexposed flash shots LOL).

When I went to my sister's wedding a few years back, I brought my powershot along, and grabbed some wonderful shots that her pros never would have since I was there early to help set the place up. I'm kind of proud of how some of those shots came out, and didn't regret taking shots while there in the least.

If I was toting a DSLR along, I think I'd do like others suggested and just bring one decent zoom and leave the camera on auto all day. The idea of being a wedding guest is to have fun - and if that fun is taking photos, so be it.

FWIW, I've never seen a pro get upset at people who bring cameras along to a wedding, and I'd think anyone who WOULD probably has chosen the wrong career to get into.

 

[Jaemie]

Weddings? I leave myself at home.

 

[PicMaker]

Tell you why I take a DSLR, its because I use nothing else. Camera without a viewfinder....forget it.

 

[tirediron]

Weddings? I leave myself at home.

Best. Answer. Ever!

 

[jake337]

Do you bring food to the reception? No, they paid for a photographer just as they paid for dinner.... just go and have fun.


p!nK

I am not sure they are comparable...the food lasts less than 24 hours(depending on your constitution)...the pictures can last a lifetime.

And FWIW, anybody with kids does bring food to the reception...at least some sort of snack. Turns out, the wedding feeding schedule isn't often in key with the kids.

Having a guest take snapshots at a wedding simply isn't that big of a deal...no reason to make it out like it is one.

Yes and for me taking pictures is fun so.......

 

[TheKenTurner]

I'd take it.... but I wouldn't get within 10 yards of the working photographer. It's all kinds of fun to phoograph people when they/I am drunk of their/my ass.

If you read this poorly, it could be "when they're drunk out of my ass."... Yeah.

-ken Turner