They should have had a section about newbie photographers who expect an unobstructed view for 60,70 feet away on critical shots, with 100 to 300 guests present, and who are totally out of position to get the important shots because they are too timid to take up a decent position where THEY can actually "get the shot". The photos in that article were pretty weak...like the woman in jeans photobombing the groom and best man...c'mon...that's a posed formal photo, with a person going for an obvious, funny photobomb...what kind of a professional shoots such an awful wedding photo? The photo could easily simply NOT be snapped. Motion the woman "OUT!" and do not shoot if She's Trying To Eff-Up The Shot. But then again, a newbie shooter might actually allow some joker in a shot like that. A "professional" wedding shooter would not even bother shooting a shot like the one with the woman and the groom and best man...unless she was totally, 100% oblivious to the background.
I used to shoot weddings. Part of the idea is that as the photographer of record, you are there to get the shots. If you get "closed out" on a ceremony shot because somebody pops up in the aisle and you're 60 feet back, hiding with a 70-200 and sniping, it's obvious that you're not really doing the kind of thing needed. If there's been an Uncle Bob or two in the 40-60 minutes prior to the ceremony, he should already have been sized up. It's a matter of having the confidence to be the professional who was hired, and getting yourself in the proper position to GET the shot. As a wedding photgrapher, you need to recognize what's going on, and what the guests are like. No excuse-making.
Again, the shot illustrating being blocked by a single guest in the aisle..c'mon...the photographer's hiding wayyyy in the back at ground level,shooting down the aisle, and expecting NOT to have ANY obstruction, ever? That would have been somewhat unrealistic in the 1980's and in the 1990's. Today, that's pretty dumb. The photog would inthat case do well to walk right up to Uncle Bob, whisper, "Excuse me, slide over a bit," and make a pushing gesture with the left hand, and take up her shooting position, and shoot from Uncle Bob's distance.
Again, nice article, but the photos show a lot of utter inexperience on the part of whoever snapped those images. Like so many Huff-Po articles, kind half-assed. I read Huff-Po every day, so I am familiar with this kind of fluff piece type of web "reporting". THe article also probably represent the frustration of the self-taught shooters with a year in photography, and no idea of how to be assertive.