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10-20-2011, 12:55 PM | #1 |
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I still get paid pretty good for weddings based on my portfolio, but I agree with you wholeheartedly. Hell, most of the expensive equipment I use like my remote flashes, flash bracket, battery extender, etc. etc. are mostly for show just so I can look more prepared than the other 8 people who showed up with the same DSLR camera body as me!
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10-20-2011, 02:34 PM | #2 | |
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10-20-2011, 11:22 AM | #3 | |
put it THIS way
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it seems to me that there are only 4-5 focus levels in all of there sample pictures. Its not like a manual focus ring, for example, where you could have every possible level of focus. It may have some applications, but, at this stage, it is not doing everything it claims it can do, or it should do. Plus, no interchangeable lenses.
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10-20-2011, 11:45 AM | #4 |
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350 pictures to 8gb? Isn't that 22mb a picture?
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10-20-2011, 02:45 PM | #5 |
Hold mah beer!
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I like random uncle. He gets the shots the couple didn't know what was happening and the photog doesn't have the family knowledge to even realize the significance and take the shot.
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10-20-2011, 03:14 PM | #6 | |
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That being said, depending on the uncle or friend with a fancy DSLR, whether or not they really know how to use the camera is another story entirely. I had a DSLR for two years before I started this bachelor program. I'm not even a full year into it, but I'm already shocked at just how much I did NOT know about my camera and how to compose photographs, how to work with models, how to use lighting, et cetera, ad nauseum. So much to the point where coworkers have asked me to shoot their weddings, and while I agreed to do it, I refuse any payment they offer because I don't consider myself a "pro" just yet.
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10-20-2011, 04:19 PM | #7 |
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No, a good wedding photographer knows the family dynamics, who is who, who is dying soon, what events are significant, so on and so forth. Certainly not to say random uncle can't get some great shots though.
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10-20-2011, 04:56 PM | #8 | ||
Hold mah beer!
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BS - sorry, you can't memorize the entire guest list and know exactly what is going on. If you do, you must only shoot a few weddings a year for people you know. That's all I was saying was random uncle sometimes get the shots that the couple will love the most.
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10-20-2011, 05:39 PM | #9 | |
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As to the interactions between people, it seems that a fair number of wedding photogs don't do candids. They stick to the rote routine shots, with their personal touches to them, and leave it at that.
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10-20-2011, 05:49 PM | #10 |
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Since there seem to be some camera people on here I have a question. High-speed cameras or slow-motion cameras (whatever you call it). Can you get a camera that'll take or shoot a video where you can slow it down for high-detail slow motion stuff (like you see on mythbusters). Or are they out of reach expensive becuase you have to get a MIT engineer to whip one up for you. I'm not needing one that'll let me watch a nuclear explosion unfold over a 5hour period. But kind of like the Isle of Man TT slow motoin stuff or what they used on Jackass 3.
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