richardgaywood wrote:
AceAceBaby wrote:
Grim... wrote:
but with the brief "make people pose as little as possible"
Apparently one of the most dreaded phrases a wedding tog can hear.If DBSnappa reads this you may get some entertaining stories regarding wedding photography.
You rang
Actually, I don't have that many anecdotes unless you count the fiasco of my brother's wedding which you've heard a 1000 times before, or so you told me. But for the cheap seats, my brother asked me to do his wedding pictures, stating that he didn't have much money, but only wanted a couple of dozen candid shots of friends and family anyway. Thsi turned into the following.
The night before the wedding the bride to be's mother turned up with a list of over 60 group shots she wanted done.
The best man, who's job it is to corral people on the day, amongst other things was about as useful as a lace condom, only less pretty.
Went into the church in glorious sun, came out to very dark overcast skies and insistent rain
The reception hall had really dark burgundy carpets and flock wallpaper in the same colour, which though I had lights with me, a couple of 1000k monoblocs, that carpet wallpaper combination is like a 8x neutral density filter, with added contrast for good measure.
So I set up in a corner trying my damnedest to get something that didn't look like it'd been shot on a instamatic because of the massive contrast caused by all that light swallowing upholstery (which proved to be impossible in the end, I simply needed about 12kw of flash to work with those colours swallowing light) while everybody else fucked off to the bar and stoically refused to come and have their picture taken apart from a few maiden aunts. Did I say the best man was a useless cunt. I still have to resist the urge to call him a wanker to his face nowadays.
And as for having no money, they spent £900 on the wedding cake. I gave up in the end and they got shit pictures which they didn't pay anything for.
And my brother in law still hasn't paid me for the 'how long will it last sweepstake' he suggested as I got closest with 4 years
Anyway. Oh, you wanted to hear about celebrity weddings...
I don't have any "interesting" anecdotes about those, unless you count the time I called the editor of OK and threatened to "bounce him off every flat surface in the entire building" because of him being a stupid spineless arse kissing cungt. But that's another story. He still avoids me to this day