First Wedding....

Lmphotos · Mar 24, 2013

I did it. I shot the dreaded friends wedding......I learned a couple things along the way.

1.Weddings move fast....blazingly FAST
2. I am out of shape
3. My arms hurt in places they have never hurt before
4. Everything I was worried about I should not have been worried about
5. Everything I was NOT worried about I should of been worried about
6. People who pay pennies for photography do NOT care about photography
7. Family formals are a disaster....
8. There is always a family member with a camera (or in this case a tripod and parks himself right in front of me in the aisle.)
9. Did I mention weddings move fast???
10. Finally church restrictions are dumb.

With that being said yes this was my first wedding, it was paid but I made less than minimum wage when all said and done. Here is just a couple so far I have opened trying to sort before I have to go into the other job tonight

mishele · Mar 24, 2013

Congrats on making it through your first big day!! Will you do another? lol

imagemaker46 · Mar 24, 2013

I like the first shot very much.

Lmphotos · Mar 24, 2013

mishele said:
Congrats on making it through your first big day!! Will you do another? lol

I had a lot of fun but man it is WORK!

tirediron · Mar 24, 2013

Lmphotos said:
mishele said:

Congrats on making it through your first big day!! Will you do another? lol

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I had a lot of fun but man it is WORK!

Great emotion in the first shot. I think the second could stand a little less brick wall.

Lmphotos · Mar 24, 2013

tirediron said:
Lmphotos said:

mishele said:

Congrats on making it through your first big day!! Will you do another? lol

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I had a lot of fun but man it is WORK!

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Great emotion in the first shot. I think the second could stand a little less brick wall.

It is a lot I did it in B&W too. They wanted "Urban" in a little country town but did not want to drive anywhere this is the side of the parish center it was about the most urban thing I could find lol

SCraig · Mar 24, 2013

Lmphotos said:
It is a lot I did it in B&W too. They wanted "Urban" in a little country town but did not want to drive anywhere this is the side of the parish center it was about the most urban thing I could find lol

Crop it in portrait mode and lose a lot of the brick on the right side.

Mully · Mar 24, 2013

Work ..... Who said photography was easy?

tirediron · Mar 24, 2013

Mully said:
Work ..... Who said photography was easy?

Me!

But I lie a lot!

Lmphotos · Mar 24, 2013

Mully said:
Work ..... Who said photography was easy?

Well to put it in my thought processes I am a nurse in the ICU where I am on my feet for 12 hours straight, lifting sometimes 300 + pound people, mentally exhausting job.......so yes I thought it would not be as physically as demanding as it was. Plus when I say "work" it is just an expression we say around here.

Lmphotos · Mar 24, 2013

Adding to the above list as I shift through more of these photos I shoot entirely too tight.....

pixmedic · Mar 24, 2013

Can you expand on what you should vs shouldnt have worried about that got switched around?

Lmphotos · Mar 24, 2013

pixmedic said:
Can you expand on what you should vs shouldnt have worried about that got switched around?

I was extremely worried about lighting, using all my flashes at once, the ceremony grabbing shots I thought I would miss being in a dark church etc. I practiced these things over and over and over again because I was so worried about it. These things went flawlessly.

I was not worried about the formals or posing the bridal party.....This was an epic disaster. The bride/groom/party did not want anything to do with pictures!! They all just wanted to go to the reception and party I talked to them into about 30 minutes worth of pictures and most of the time they were so uncooperative I was not ready to deal with that. But, today when I talked to her and showed her a sneak peek (the brick wall one) she said she loved it and glad they did them! (now I am thinking I should of talked them into more :S) In a nut shell I just thought they would care about their "posed" photography a bit more than they did it was hard for me to be put on the spot and do them all in 30 minutes.