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From: Mr. Strat on 12 Jul 2010 22:03 In article <2010071211102316807-christophercampbellremovethis(a)hotmailcom>, C J Campbell <christophercampbellremovethis(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > He blocks the videographer from filming the entire wedding retreat. He > doesn't know where the fountain is. As Robert Cole pointed out, he is > using a flash with a diffuser pointed straight up -- hardly helping him > at all. He walks backwards for a long distance without looking where he > is going. > > He deserved what he got. Agreed...the guy is an amateur...
From: Robert Coe on 12 Jul 2010 22:37 On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:48:13 -0400, Bowser <Canon(a)Nikon.Panny> wrote: : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9HD5GZooPQ I don't think anybody's mentioned it yet, but watch the body language of the 5-year-old flower girl in the last half second of the video. :^) Bob
From: Robert Coe on 12 Jul 2010 23:01 On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:32:29 -0700, C J Campbell <christophercampbellremovethis(a)hotmail.com> wrote: : On 2010-07-12 13:42:31 -0700, DanP <dan.petre(a)hotmail.com> said: : : > On Jul 12, 7:35�pm, George Kerby <ghost_top...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: : >> On 7/12/10 1:10 PM, in article : >> 2010071211102316807-christophercampbellremovethis(a)hotmailcom, "C J Campbe : > ll" : >> : >> <christophercampbellremovet...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: : >>> On 2010-07-12 10:48:13 -0700, Bowser <Ca...(a)Nikon.Panny> said: : >> : >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9HD5GZooPQ : >> : >>> He blocks the videographer from filming the entire wedding retreat. He : >>> doesn't know where the fountain is. As Robert Cole pointed out, he is : >>> using a flash with a diffuser pointed straight up -- hardly helping him : >>> at all. He walks backwards for a long distance without looking where he : >>> is going. : >> : >>> He deserved what he got. : >> : >> What the hell was he doing with that Canon 'cannon' on his shoulder. Usel : > ess : >> for that particular event. Showing off, I guess... : > : > Just an idea, would you consider covering the walk with a long lens : > from the other end of the aisle? : > : > DanP : : I might. The thing is, can you imagine in your wildest dreams the bride : and groom buying any of those frames? I can't. Let the videographer : shoot them. The bride and groom will buy the video. They will now! ;^) : I am all for documentary wedding photography, mind you. But a repeat of : the same shot over and over is not the way to do documentary. The : photographer should be getting other angles, other perspectives, and : different framing. His tightly framed pair of faces with a bit of : church all around them is fine -- for one or two shots. But that is not : the whole show. He needs to move around more relative to the subjects : and he especially needs to be invisible. It's a pleasure to watch a good wedding photographer in action. The most recent time, I didn't get to see him do the ceremony - had to babysit my grandson - but watched him intently during the reception (except, of course, while I was doing my own shooting). He was indeed very nearly invisible, and always in the right place at the right time. Because I was so busy myself, I never got to see his pictures. But my daughter, a good photographer herself, told me that they were superb. (FWIW, he used a Canon 5D. This was before the 5D2 came out.) Bob
From: Robert Coe on 12 Jul 2010 23:07 On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:45:35 -0700, C J Campbell <christophercampbellremovethis(a)hotmail.com> wrote: : On 2010-07-12 12:03:52 -0700, tony cooper <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> said: : : > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:10:23 -0700, C J Campbell : > <christophercampbellremovethis(a)hotmail.com> wrote: : > : >> On 2010-07-12 10:48:13 -0700, Bowser <Canon(a)Nikon.Panny> said: : >> : >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9HD5GZooPQ : >> : >> He blocks the videographer from filming the entire wedding retreat. He : >> doesn't know where the fountain is. : > : > Font, not fountain. That's a baptismal font. : : So it is! Well, he baptized himself, eh? : : It also seems to me he could have dressed appropriately for a wedding. : Too many photogs out there looking like slobs. Interesting point. I thought all wedding photographers dressed in black. I've been told that it's to prevent any reflected light from colorizing the bride's dress. Bob
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 13 Jul 2010 10:20
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Robert Coe <bob(a)1776.COM> saying something like: > >Interesting point. I thought all wedding photographers dressed in black. I've >been told that it's to prevent any reflected light from colorizing the bride's >dress. Most unobtrusive wedding 'togs I've seen have been suited up to blend in. Not looking like a PJ from a war-torn front line. |