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Randall Ainsworth wrote: In article , wrote: Finally, a word to everybody except Mxsmanic. The small but sincere photo studio I work for has been in business for a quarter of a century, and done thousands of weddings. (I'm the neophyte, with only about 250 under my belt.) And we've done every one of them in 35mm. In all that time, we have never spent a dime on any form of promotion or advertising other than business cards. Word of mouth keeps us hopping without it. I know that it's tough for you to believe that you don't know everything, or that your way of doing things isn't the only way. But it's so none the less. Put another way, excuse me if I don't really care how big your cameras are or how far you can **** with them. Any way you cut it, 35mm weddings are amateurish. And one would think if he had 250 weddings experience he would have known how to shoot "dark skin". -- In my book its another pointless post from another nameless nobody. I hope it made you feel better. -- LOL. |
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Randall Ainsworth wrote: In article , wrote: Finally, a word to everybody except Mxsmanic. The small but sincere photo studio I work for has been in business for a quarter of a century, and done thousands of weddings. (I'm the neophyte, with only about 250 under my belt.) And we've done every one of them in 35mm. In all that time, we have never spent a dime on any form of promotion or advertising other than business cards. Word of mouth keeps us hopping without it. I know that it's tough for you to believe that you don't know everything, or that your way of doing things isn't the only way. But it's so none the less. Put another way, excuse me if I don't really care how big your cameras are or how far you can **** with them. Any way you cut it, 35mm weddings are amateurish. And one would think if he had 250 weddings experience he would have known how to shoot "dark skin". -- In my book its another pointless post from another nameless nobody. I hope it made you feel better. -- LOL. |
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Mr Ainsworth.....
I've tried to be nice,but I find your attitude to be a pain in the ass.... Not everyone can afford somebody who shows up with a Hassie or a Bronica. Frankly, I'm tired of your "It's my way or the freakin highway ".attitude As I've said in the past,very few people ever enlarge a wedding photo past 8 by 10 or rarely 11 by 14. The few times someone told me in advance they wanted a big blow up, I brought a Mamiya Press or in the one case they wanted a 40 by 50...(yes, a 40 by 50 to go over the mantel...what nightmare that turned into!) I brought a 4 by 5 Speed Graphic and 10 holders with ISO 100 print film. Your attitude is that there is only one tool for weddings..the one YOU use...Look, if you use 120 format cameras at a wedding, your film and processing costs are about 3 times what 35mm costs. A lot of young couples simply can't afford that. If you had your way, it'd be a crime to shoot a wedding on 35mm. Instead of ****ing about this guy shooting in 35mm,why don't you give him some useful advice? My advice would be to shoot some test shots and figure out how to bias the exposure or to shoot on manual and meter the flash using a flash meter.. wrote in message ... I've been shooting for a long time, but suddenly I find myself facing an unfamiliar situation, and I could use some advice. I happen to live in a part of the country that has very few black people. Lots of Latinos and Polynesians, but very few black. I have been booked to shoot a wedding at which the groom is a very dark-skinned African. (No, he's not African-American. He's from Ghana.) And I'm told he has very dark skin. Same presumably goes for his family. The bride will be wearing white, which means the range between her dress and the groom's skin tone could be pretty significant. I will be using Nikon 8008 and/or N90 cameras, in program mode, with flash. I generally shoot Portra, with a rated ISO of 160, but I set the camera for 100. So what's the best course of action? Wash out the whites to get the dark skin tones? Keep the whites and risk losing the groom's face? Just let the computer decide for me? Any wisdom from someone who's handled this kind of shoot would be greatly appreciated. |
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