Little BBC film about smart phones ruining weddings

http://www.bbc.co.uk/n​ews/magazine-34871181

I donno if this like belongs in this particular part of the forum but w/e


The video dosnt really even scratch the serfice of the issue. Its just kinda fluff. There needs to me a real debate video about this bc it is a very multisided issue lot of ins outs and what-have-yous to explore. Its a super interesting topic.

I thought it was marriages that ruined weddings.

DThriller wrote in post #17795467
I donno if this like belongs in this particular part of the forum but w/e


The video dosnt really even scratch the serfice of the issue. Its just kinda fluff. There needs to me a real debate video about this bc it is a very multisided issue lot of ins outs and what-have-yous to explore. Its a super interesting topic.

Well, it's about weddings so I posted it here, and I did say in the title it was a little film, but it has been an area of debate on here for quite a while, hence why I posted it. If there's a more suitable section then let me know and I'll ask admin to move it. It was more to show that picture of the poor groom having to lean to get into his own wedding picture, sums it all up very well..............

PineBomb wrote in post #17795469
I thought it was marriages that ruined weddings.

LOL

only made it a few seconds into that video. When someone thinks they have something worth saying but don't think the viewer deserves the increased quality of a cheap dedicated mic, i want to blow something up.


fwiw, the wedding talk section might be better, but i think it's pretty common mistake to post in one (sharing) rather then the other (talk).

PineBomb wrote in post #17795469
I thought it was marriages that ruined weddings.

Oooo Shots fired

welshwizard1971 wrote in post #17795471
Well, it's about weddings so I posted it here, and I did say in the title it was a little film, but it has been an area of debate on here for quite a while, hence why I posted it. If there's a more suitable section then let me know and I'll ask admin to move it. It was more to show that picture of the poor groom having to lean to get into his own wedding picture, sums it all up very well..............

This is the photosharing section and there is a photography talk section with weddings as a subsection.

Thanks, admin, some housekeeping, can it be moved please?

I think the one photographer in the video got it right, as wedding photographers its not our day, its the bride and grooms day and the guests day. Its not like its that hard to work around the phones.

there arent any cellphones during the formals and those are he pics that I have control over, the rest is just a documentation of the day.

guests want to capture an image like we know we can get and post it on Facebook so everyone can fawn over it, let them have their fun.

Two sides of the coin. I agree with both. It's would only be a problem if it really stopped me getting the shots. I thought this was the wedding talk forum, and that the other forum was the business forum .

I am not a wedding photographer. I would think that guests getting in the way would be a problem if you the photographer are not able to get specific photographs that every bride and groom expects to be in the package. If you don't get a photo of the bride walking down the aisle how much of a problem would that be for you? Cutting the cake? First dance?

guests with cameras, phone and tablets can be annoying to those working to make the wedding memorable - not just us photo guys, I see tunnel-visioned guests interfere with wait/bar staff too - but I don't worry about it anymore... guests show up to have fun, and if their idea of fun is being attached to their devices, then so be it...
20 years after the wedding, the bride will have no recollection of all those devices being there

I usually don't mind guests with phones/tablets but the ones that are a real pain are uncle bobs, the wedding photographer guest that shows up with a full gear loadout and the overzealous vendor photographer that steals attention of the B/G during critical moments.

I had all 3 showed up at the last wedding gig I did. Lets just say that I never had the back of my head photographed as much as that before

I'd say that it takes a ton of patience to be a wedding photographer these days. Patience that I don't not possess.

I think this is posted in exactly the right place

AS a wedding photographer, i can tell you that this is a problem that is NOT going to go away and its getting worse every year. You better be prepared if you plan of photographing weddings. You have 2 feet so get ready to use them. Think quick, and get some good reach. We have a 300 F/2.8L so we can shoot into the ceremony and isolate from the distractions.Its just a fact these days. Your not going to get around this.

Talk to your brides and grooms about this and do the best you can. I dont photoshop out I Phones, tablets, ext. They are part of the ceremony. Everyone is right on this subject. Its a PITA for photographers to deal with, its part of our culture now and guests want to get pictures, its not gonna stop.

So my advice is learn to work around it when possible, talk to your clients. If they dont want i phones in their pictures, have the officiants make an announcement before the ceremony starts and tell the guests to put them away.A fully prepared photographer can work around this. We now have officiants tell guests before the ceremony starts to turn off the cell phones because the couple hired a professional photographer and they DONT WANT I-PHONES in thier photos. has happened several times

Your gonna gave to deal with this. Getting on FB and whining about it is not going to solve the problem. But it does bring awareness to the problem

have the talk with your clients