What is a Pro Camera?!

Hi,

I am afraid the OP here clearly has a 'superiority' complex..I hope all the other LCP students are not the same.

To suggest wedding photographers are somehow not 'pro' is just plainly stupid and very demeaning to many professional social photographers all over the world. Photography does not start and end with large format 'fine art' work. ANYONE who earns their living from photography FULL time deserves serious consideration AND RESPECT. It is very, very hard to break into professional photography and even harder to keep in for a long time.

I went to photo college full time, worked for nothing for various advertising photographers and finally became a pro studio photographer..so i know how hard it is..but I never came across this ludicrous 'I shoot fine art so I am superior' attitude this student seems to have. I do so despair of these London based 'art' people who have NO IDEA of reality. They should be made to work in a wedding studio in Barnsley for 6 months....

Cheers in despair Steve.

Well said Steve, I spent 4 years at Art School and my first job was working for a really brilliant wedding photographer for almost a year thereafter. Truly awful culture shock at the time and I have to say I wasn't too keen on it but looking back, I now realise what an awful lot I learned in those ten months. Not just about taking snaps under duress but learning how to handle people and a lot more besides.

Ken

WHY OH WHY DON'T THE COUPLE GETTING MARRIED CONSULT THE PHOTOGRAPHER ON THE STYLE OF WEDDING DRESS BEFORE THE WEDDING then the photographs would always be perfect i ask you what the hell can you do with a tulip style dress ???!!!!!

Even when they do consult, they don't always listen...
I had a couple complain that people in thier wedding shots, (candids -not the formals) looked squinty eyed and sweaty.
I'm thinking to myself "damn...I told you 6 months before the shoot, that 12 noon was the worst time of the day to plan an outdoor park wedding. you hired me to photograph what was there, and you choose to stick a bunch of people (most of the men in dark suits), out in the noon sun on a day where it was 34 degrees celcius in the shade, (there was no shade) and you had them facing into the sun. I didn't walk up to them and poke them in the eyes to ruin your pictures, and infact, the fact that you can see thier eyes, (high sync fill flash) is proof I did my job right. next time don't be so cheap and rent a tent (which I also advised)....

Good thing Gerri did all the actual talking.
thier formals, which were done in the shade wre fabulous, by the way.