I shot a wedding this past weekend, and it was one of those wonderful LEARNING EXPERIENCES.
I was there as a guest, and a photographer, so I had to put on my imaginary photographer hat when I got there, reduce the urge to chat with all my friends, and take pictures. In my urge to not bias my sample of candid subjects solely towards people that I knew, I tried to remember to take pictures of strangers… it’s funny, that confused look people get when a stranger walks up to them with a big lens and they have no idea who you are.
I ended up creeping along the ground behind the bride and groom during the ceremony to get pictures. I remember thinking to myself, “Exactly how much am I distracting from the ceremony right now?” and deciding to just screw it and keep doing what I was doing. If I’d been thinking, I would’ve remembered that dude-in-a-gorilla-suit-on-a-basketball-court psychology experiment and deduced that probably none of the guests even saw me. I also started crying during the vows… thank god for image stabilization.
I would like to congratulate myself for getting good shots of the very strongly backlit bride and groom. We’re talking backlighting of -26.74 apparent magnitude. That was one freaking sunny day. It’s interesting to look at some of the pictures and see how much blue light from the sky and green light reflected from the grass and trees was hitting the subjects.
One unique aspect of this wedding was that there were so many people there with consumer-level DSLRs (probably most bettter/newer than mine) that I felt like I had backup. I couldn’t worry too much about missing something when there were 20 other nice cameras pointed at the same thing. This is just another sign that we ARE approaching The Future!
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