Anyone shooting editorial, commercial, advertising, fashion, corporate, journalism, etc. would cringe at the thought of shooting a wedding.
I've experienced this a few times at weddings. Recently some guy walked up to me as I'm shooting and said "I don't know how you can stand to do it. I worked in advertising photography for 20 years." I start to tell him about all the great things about shooting weddings and approaching it as though it was a photojournalism story, but before I can get 10 words out he quickly puts his phone to his ear, resumes a conversation he stopped to belittle me, then turns and walks away.
camerausername wrote:
I've experienced this a few times at weddings. Recently some guy walked up to me as I'm shooting and said "I don't know how you can stand to do it. I worked in advertising photography for 20 years." I start to tell him about all the great things about shooting weddings and approaching it as though it was a photojournalism story, but before I can get 10 words out he quickly puts his phone to his ear, resumes a conversation he stopped to belittle me, then turns and walks away.
Next time tell him he's a disrespectful jerkoff and before he can rebut your statement just walk away.
Part 2 is up now. He has a video at the front talking more about his intended foray into the wedding genre and the rest of it is his response to The System.. It's good if you need a pep talk but skipping it won't change your life.
Considering the amount of 'PJ' wedding shooters (i.e. cheap wannabees without a clue) who don't seem to manage it leaving the couple with nothing to put up on the wall, for once, I think they may have a point.
Lol....so many former "commercial " photographers who are now wedding photographers when they swore they would never do it. Funny how putting food on the table trumps ego any day of the week.
marti.g3 wrote:
Lol....so many former "commercial " photographers who are now wedding photographers when they swore they would never do it. Funny how putting food on the table trumps ego any day of the week.
i didnt swore by, i was intrigued by weddings and wanted to do them (maybe the girly thing), but was raised to not want it
i decided on my own when even though i had more moneys in commercial sector it was becoming more and more stress and started to hurt my feeling about photography as a whole. there were meetings or even jobs with 20 bored uninspiring people on the set after which i heard my inner voice saying "gotta find me another job then this ****** photography". i was even thinking about getting some 9-17 job. Then i just discovered that it is not photography what i hate, but just one branch of it :-).
and of course i was dumb to all my photo buddies.
weddings are much less moneys but so rewarding... I never found me wanting to go back.
Funny enough, once i had comfort of denying high profile jobs, i found that most of those jerky people would actually bend little towards my needs just to get me there. But i am out and i am happy.
