Drinking is probably a bad idea 99.9% of the time. I for one don't become 'more fun' when I've had a few. I become a less capable photographer.
RobertLynn wrote:
No and no.
Hell, there is alcohol offered at events that I photograph (MMA), and I do not drink then. If I bring an assistant (for my journalism work), they are told not to drink. If they were to drink, they would be let go on the spot.
glort wrote:
It's going to take a hell of a lot more than one or 2 drinks to make any difference to what I do and as for legalities, like a said a few pages back, forget the Internet forum paranoia, show my where it has ever happened that someone got sued for having one or 2 drinks.
You truly don't get it, do you?
Professionalism. You've made it clear what it means to you, so can we all please move on?
I get how judgmental, unrealistic and uptight a lot of people are here with nothing to support their paranoia.
. I'm guessing no one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to reply so if you want to move on, please do so and the rest of us can discuss the topic as we wish.
My contract-- I haven't shot a wedding in a few years-- always had a line with these two conditions:
- Photographer will not drink alcohol or smoke during the wedding.
- Photographer will be provided with a meal during the wedding.
So when the guests ask you to drink, and that happened quite a bit (I was also invited out a couple times AFTER the wedding, which I didn't do; GF wouldn't have approved of that!), it's pretty easy to say, "Sorry, I can't." Nobody is offended.
Chris Beaumont wrote:
You think I'd lose work for it? Jesus,
what a funny thread. and now Jesus gets brought into the thread. so . . .
He did turn water into wine at a wedding and i assume He had a taste to enjoy what He created. I wonder if He was the photographer if He still would have done this?
my take on this thread. i shoot a couple weddings a year and officiate a couple as well. nothing wrong with a drink if done responsibly. the photographer needs to use his own personal judgement.
This could be the photographer currently practicing that I look up to the very most. He definitely condones having a drink at a wedding with the B&G, and I think his credentials speak for his credibility.
Read the paragraph titled "Be Yourself," particularly the second to last graph.
mccallmedia wrote:
This could be the photographer currently practicing that I look up to the very most. He definitely condones having a drink at a wedding with the B&G, and I think his credentials speak for his credibility.
Pretty much par for the course.
Forums are full of unknowns and largely inexperienced people pushing their personal views and mantras even though they are completely at odds with what the people that have been in the business for years making money day in, day out doing what these people are telling everyone not to do.
Like you, I listen to the people with the proven runs on the board not those that at best have a hack at being shooters on the weekends. The real pro's don't have hangups about what people might think or sweat the what if's that never happen, they let their work and personality speak for itself.
I know one guy here that it has it in his contract that he must have a bottle of wine on his table.
Seeing he's been in business 20+ years and has always been one of the busiest shooters in the city, Having a drink dosen't seem to have done the damage to his reputation that many here are preaching with such gloom and doom.
I have seen this personal opinion against what happens in reality thing on lots of different subjects and intrest group forums, just another aspect of the internet being what it is.
NAVPHONE wrote:
OK, what about smooching a bridesmaid or two? They always offer, but never before they are totally hammered
It's OK, but only in Australia and the UK.
