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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
08-19-2015, 04:05 PM
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as someone who second shoots a lot and have done weddings on my own... please just talk to the head photographer yourself first.
But stay out of their way, make sure you stay out of frame whenever you can and not step on their toes. Make sure the bride knows that its a real good way to anger the paid photographer and it can affect their quality of work and even the number of images they get back. I've seen so many things go sideways, especially when the bride/groom ask the guests to take as many pictures as possible.
When I shoot weddings I always talk to the bride about the benefit of an "unplugged wedding". (Why You Might Want to Consider an Unplugged Wedding) and when I got married I asked the same thing of our guests and got my nephew who was ushering to ask people to put cameras and gadgets down and then ask them to leave (we only kicked one out) if they persisted.
Personally, I don't want to look over from my wife and see the congressional all staring at our special moment behind ipads and camera phones. I want them to be with us! I would also hate to see nothing but the glow of portable devices movie lights that doing SFA instead of my guests faces. If they want a photo of the kiss, well then I can get my pro to forward you one.
Or the pro has a perfect shot lined up as the new married couple walks down the isle and all you see is everyone elses flashes like a movie runway....then your client asks if you can photo shop out all those flashes so they can see the peoples faces.... uhhhh sorry....no can do. Then they want to start a lawsuit because of breach of contract because they don't think the images are good enough... blah blah blah....
Just be careful and make sure she is aware of the problems they can cause by their request. Weddings cannot be reshot.
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