For your wedding, would you rather… - Page 5

Pheebs · 20-01-2009, 08:39

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Originally Posted by SidewinderINC

If I was to ever get married (I don't see any point in it personally, just causes a lot of hassle if things go tits up, with no logical gain if it doesn't) I'd go for photos.

Pictures capture moments in time, frozen. Video doesn't get that, and I hate the sound of my own voice too.

Ref your not sure about getting married - my Uncle, he was married on his death bed to his long term partner (he was gay... in fact I believe he was the first gay person to be married in Britain actually - they made an exception for him to have it done sooner than it was being legalised as he had days to live). Anyhoo, the reason he did it was purely so his partner wouldn't have everything taken away from him and be completely ripped off by the government when he died

It's not something he would have done otherwise but yeh... In that sense - there are quite a few benefits.

Bless him. Good man. Imagine the Four Weddings and a Funeral couple and that was them down to a tee

Mondo · 20-01-2009, 09:51

Photographs 99% of the time.

Unless the videotographer can also edit. A long contineous video of the day is a chore, what you need is to condense the entire day into a 3 minute video with music and some creative editing. Something like this

http://www.jessicaclaire.net/index.cfm?postID=389

Bottom of the page, the video will compliment the photographs and it won't really stand up all by itself IMO.

petemc · 20-01-2009, 11:51

That video is really lovely and does prove that if you got the right person you could have something good. Its not about having all the wedding filmed with your uncle drunk and stumbling around the brides maids. Its about capturing the little things that make the day in something that lasts a bit longer than a photo.

TinkerBell · 20-01-2009, 12:06

Mondo that is exactly the sort of thing I would want, a video to catch parts but not people reacting to the camera. Also the photos were awesome!

petemc · 20-01-2009, 12:12

Jessica Claire is in the top 10 wedding photographers in the US. Which is clearly cheating

Dee · 20-01-2009, 14:04

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Originally Posted by Flibster

Wedding? Hell no!

We know. You've made that clear time and time again. So why post?

LeperousDust · 20-01-2009, 15:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flibster

Wedding?

Hell no!

Surely you'd want pictures of the registry office

?

bam · 22-01-2009, 14:57

Photos, for definite, but not the traditional posed photos placed on card type affair. I got married in August and we managed to get a great photographer, we had him and an assistant from about 9 in the morning until gone midnight so we got photos of both groups getting ready (we were both in separate hotels the night before as we got married a long way from where we live).
We only had a couple of group shots as the location we had the reception we had the use of two rooms, in the smaller one the photographer set up a little studio to get good shots of everyone who went without disrupting everything else.
I think he took about 2500 photos in total that day, then he designed a book for us which got printed on thick metallic sheen pages and bound in leather.
And to top it all off we got a couple of dvds with every photo taken in highres .jpg and permission to do anything we liked with them.
He used to do fashion photography which helped getting people to do more than just stand still for the studio shots too

Davey_Pitch · 23-01-2009, 15:04

Sounds like the guy we'll be using for our wedding Bam. His name wasn't Dave was it?

bam · 23-01-2009, 15:15

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Originally Posted by Davey_Pitch

Sounds like the guy we'll be using for our wedding Bam. His name wasn't Dave was it?

Yeah it was actually, Dave Sander, an absolute star, couldn't be more pleased with him tbh.

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Film me!	2	3.77%
Photograph me!	51	96.23%
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20-01-2009, 09:51	#42
Mondo Absinthe Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2,174	Photographs 99% of the time. Unless the videotographer can also edit. A long contineous video of the day is a chore, what you need is to condense the entire day into a 3 minute video with music and some creative editing. Something like this http://www.jessicaclaire.net/index.cfm?postID=389 Bottom of the page, the video will compliment the photographs and it won't really stand up all by itself IMO. __________________ My Website / MSN / Email / Flickr / Blog

20-01-2009, 11:51	#43
petemc Moonshine Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Nr Liverpewl Posts: 4,371	That video is really lovely and does prove that if you got the right person you could have something good. Its not about having all the wedding filmed with your uncle drunk and stumbling around the brides maids. Its about capturing the little things that make the day in something that lasts a bit longer than a photo. __________________ Thats no hamster, its a space station!

20-01-2009, 12:06	#44
TinkerBell Dirty Spammer Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: In the middle! Posts: 2,454	Mondo that is exactly the sort of thing I would want, a video to catch parts but not people reacting to the camera. Also the photos were awesome! __________________

20-01-2009, 12:12	#45
petemc Moonshine Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Nr Liverpewl Posts: 4,371	Jessica Claire is in the top 10 wedding photographers in the US. Which is clearly cheating __________________ Thats no hamster, its a space station!

22-01-2009, 14:57	#48
bam Long Island Iced Tea Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 106	Photos, for definite, but not the traditional posed photos placed on card type affair. I got married in August and we managed to get a great photographer, we had him and an assistant from about 9 in the morning until gone midnight so we got photos of both groups getting ready (we were both in separate hotels the night before as we got married a long way from where we live). We only had a couple of group shots as the location we had the reception we had the use of two rooms, in the smaller one the photographer set up a little studio to get good shots of everyone who went without disrupting everything else. I think he took about 2500 photos in total that day, then he designed a book for us which got printed on thick metallic sheen pages and bound in leather. And to top it all off we got a couple of dvds with every photo taken in highres .jpg and permission to do anything we liked with them. He used to do fashion photography which helped getting people to do more than just stand still for the studio shots too __________________ Oderint Dum Metuant

23-01-2009, 15:04	#49
Davey_Pitch I iz speshul Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Liverpool Posts: 6,296	Sounds like the guy we'll be using for our wedding Bam. His name wasn't Dave was it? __________________ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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