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Are these the worst wedding pictures ever? bungling photographers miss out faces and forget groom's parents

Person + SLR ≠ photographer.

Please, people.... don't do weddings unless you have a lot of experience shooting events in a lot of conditions. Stop ruining people's most memorable days!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... rents.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... -ever.html
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If only couples would do as much research on their photographer as they do on their sugary, lard-laden cake and silly bridesmaid dresses with matching shoes - this would happen a lot less frequently. Couples, for whatever reason, think that an appropriate place to cut costs is on the folks with the camera.

What a mess! :down: :cry:

The 2 things I get the most sick of being asked.....

1) OMG! Why are you so tanned? Have you been on vacation? NO!
2) Photographers are so expensive - would you do our wedding? NO! And an extra special dose of NO - based on the words you chose to ask me!
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I probably get asked for every family/friend wedding... and I say the following...
I won't do it, because I just don't have the experience it takes to do the task justice. But I will help you find the right person for the job.
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We spent more time finding the right photographer than everything else combined. ok, that could be a slight exaggeration but we realized that nobody is going to remember what the food tasted like 30 years from now, but we'll still have our wedding album.
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cbobcat49 wrote:We spent more time finding the right photographer than everything else combined. ok, that could be a slight exaggeration but we realized that nobody is going to remember what the food tasted like 30 years from now, but we'll still have our wedding album.
Cameras hadn't been invented when I got married, or I would have done the same.
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but did you at least hire someone to chisel illustrations into a stone tablet?
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Matt wrote:but did you at least hire someone to chisel illustrations into a stone tablet?
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