Would you shoot a wedding with a cell phone?

lance70 · Mar 10, 2017

Has anyone tried shooting a wedding with a cell phone? There is a gentleman at a local bar who said he's getting 7 grand for shooting his friends wedding and using his Galaxy S7....

pixmedic · Mar 10, 2017

have you ever seen the results of cell phone pictures taken in low lit churches?
i have.
not pretty. not pretty at all.

besides, who charges their friend $7k to shoot their wedding with a cell phone??
im calling shenanigans on this one.

Designer · Mar 10, 2017

lance70 said:
.. a gentleman at a local bar ..

Had he been drinking?

Gary A. · Mar 10, 2017

I have two answers:

1) All depends on who is getting married; and
2) For seven thousand ... sure ... (and I'd even give them the phone at the end of the day).

lance70 · Mar 10, 2017

Good point

was just checking, maybe it was more common than I thought, had to ask.

Designer · Mar 10, 2017

lance70 said:
Good point was just checking, maybe it was more common than I thought, had to ask.

Someone made a video about doing this. I don't have the link now, but you can find it. Because the phone is so good, don'cha know, and he's so good, also don'cha know.

vivdub · Mar 10, 2017

Here is some one who shot the wedding using iPhone
Photographer Uses Only His iPhone To Shoot Entire Wedding And The Results Are Magical

smoke665 · Mar 10, 2017

Fact check

At a local Bar.
Charging 7k with a cell phone
Doing it for a friend

Yup, pretty safe assumption this is the alcohol talking. Lots of alcohol!!!

pixmedic · Mar 10, 2017

vivdub said:
Here is some one who shot the wedding using iPhone
Photographer Uses Only His iPhone To Shoot Entire Wedding And The Results Are Magical

I think the term "magical" might be stretching the definition a little...
the shots were ok. a lot of the color looked washed out and over processed, almost instagram filter style.
which is fine i guess, if you like ruining what was a wonderful venue full of color and detail.
the pics look fine in a small size on my computer...but enlarge them a little and see what happens...

didn't see any shots of the ceremony? everything was shot either before or after the fact it seems...
probably because that was the only way the photog could get close enough without being in the way, and because he was
using a handheld LCD light to get exposure.

props for doing it though.
I believe that he also shot with his DSLR gear...so it wasn't just iphone shots the couple got.

table1349 · Mar 10, 2017

How to Spot Fake News

pixmedic · Mar 10, 2017

gryphonslair99 said:
How to Spot Fake News

I don't get where your going with this

table1349 · Mar 10, 2017

Same principals apply to the drunk in the bar. The current term for what we used to call a bald face lie is Fake News.

smoke665 · Mar 10, 2017

@gryphonslair99 But in the words of :

pixmedic · Mar 10, 2017

gryphonslair99 said:
Same principals apply to the drunk in the bar. The current term for what we used to call a bald face lie is Fake News.

ooooh...i thought u were talking about the indian wedding link

Derrel · Mar 10, 2017

The Indian wedding, a three-day event, looked okay to me. Very theatrical images. The iPhone 6s Plus has plenty of megapixels and a good lens, ample DOF, and is what 18 years ago, would have been called a "High-resolutuion, digitial imaging system." And something that, had it been available back then, would have been priced at around $10,000 or so.