Unless I missed it in this thread somewhere, I've seen no one comment on the staging of the ceremony afterwards to compensate for either the lack of flash during or no shooting at all during the ceremony. I've had pretty good success and complete cooperation from the clergy in this matter thus far, doing the actual ceremony shots in this manner. I realize it fails to capture the moment of the ceremony, but is much better then getting nothing at all, or grossly blurred, off colored pictures. I see the biggest problem as being unprepared for what your going to encounter on that day. I like to go to the church about the same time of day as the proposed wedding and burning a roll of film while experimenting with filters and the like and maybe even an extra roll of tungsten balanced film as well. I don't need to get prints at this point, since scanning is enough to tell me how they are going to come out. I've even had clients purchase some of these preshots if they like the churches architecture. There is of course no guarantee that the ambient lighting will be the same on any given day, but I feel I definitely have an advantage this way. It also helps me to set up all the must get shots in my head ahead of time. The clergies have then had an opportunity to tell me their wish list and as a whole been much better to work with when I took this extra step. When your getting paid to do a shoot it is your responsibility to do everything within your power to make this job a complete success.
Dave > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, William Robb wrote: > > From: "Amita Guha" > > > The Presbyterian church where we got married (200 year old congregation) > > > didn't allow photography during the service, but we knew about that well > > > in advance. I was actually kind of happy not to have the distraction. > > > During a wedding we attended shortly after, there were cameras going off > > > all during the ceremony and it seemed to wreck the mood. > > > > My experience was that a no photos during the ceremony policy only shut down > > the working photographers. There will always be a number of pew warmers who > > don't observe the ban, I suspect on the theory that there isn't a hell of a > > lot that can be done about them. > > OTOH, a pro who doesn't listen can be barred from shooting there in the > > future.
