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p.3 #6 · p.3 #6 · "I've shot less than 5 weddings and this is my best shot!" | |
I'm just bowled over. I can assure you back when I started shooting weddings in the '60s (as a teenager) that very few pros could have matched the quality of work displayed here.
I went off to photo school and moved back home. I did mostly commercial/industrial and didn't advertise for weddings, but ended up working far more weekends than I expected. My heyday was late '70's/early '80's. I shot what would now be regarded as "traditional" wedding photography, using medium format and multiple lights even for candids. Our film back then was ISO 125. I usually would take a roll or two of 400 when it became available, but even with medium format 400 speed film had golf ball sized grain (this was before grain was "trendy").
I'm so envious of the tools available to you now. Back then I longed to be able to shoot in the style seen here, which captures the emotions of the day far better than the old style.
People fuss about how easy the mechanics of wedding photography has gotten, auto focus, zoom lenses, auto metering, etc. Yes, there may be some who do wedding photography with no more skills than it takes to work an Instamatic, but this thread abundantly demonstrates how creative photographers can be when they aren't having to constantly fiddle with aperture, focusing, meter reading and the like. Brides and grooms can get a far better product now, than when I was shooting weddings professionally.
Hats off to all of you, especially Chuck for starting the thread.
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