Greek Baptisim

[Car2n]

On late notice, I'm shooting a greek baptisim tomorrow.
I'm shooting the baptisim of an early thirties woman in a greek church.
What should I expect as part of the tradition so I can be somewhat prepared to look for certain things while shooting?
Thanks

[SuzyView]

I moved this to TALK as you don't have images to SHARE yet.

[vk2gwk]

First... it takes a while and it looks pretty unorganised.... :)
The baptims I shot for my family was for smaller children (5 and 7 years old). They had to undress to their swimsuits and were dipped into a large vessel and later sprenkled with some sort of ointment.
Lots of symbolism, incense, kissing of images and statues of saints and lots of chanting of which you won't understand a word!.
Have fun - I enjoyed myself.

[bigrob]

If they had spent less time kissing so many images we wouldn't have nicked their marbles :lol:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_Marbles