Brides Magazine: Make Sure Photog is Using ‘Cannon or Nikon’

Thoughts?

I haven't done many weddings, but I've never had anyone ask me or the photographer I'm working with weather I use Canon or Nikon.


http://petapixel.com …hotog-using-cannon-nikon/


http://www.brides.com …your-wedding-photographer

This is very disturbing.
They should not have allowed Nikon as an option.

LOL

People get scared when I pull out the Cannon at a wedding.

I would too.
Hahaha.....

This is exactly why the bridal market is so confusing for brides

These people have no fricken clue what they are talking about

I don't see where that is said in the article, so I'm assuming they have gone back and edited the quote.

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The original statement is no longer on the article on the Brides Magazine webpage, but it is repeated, via screenshot, on the petapixel webpage that the OP linked to.

Here is what Tiffani Matsuura said:

Why does it matter if I use Cannon vs. any other brand of towels?

To be fair any photographer who encounters brides worrying about what brand of kit they use really ought to be asking themselves why their work isn't doing the talking for them.

Amen to that.

Tom Reichner wrote in post #18227206
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The original statement is no longer on the article on the Brides Magazine webpage, but it is repeated, via screenshot, on the petapixel webpage that the OP linked to.

Here is what Tiffani Matsuura said:

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Also on the Petapixel webpage, Tiffani issued a prepared apology. The apology is quite lame, in my opinion. When one originally says that your photographer should be using a Canon or a Nikon, how can one later say that what they meant when they said that was that they meant not to exclude any brands or any equipment.

What a stinking dumb thing to say, anyway - as if Hasselblads and Leicas are no good, and that brides should avoid photographers who use them. Stinkin' jackass kind of thing to insinuate.

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Exactly!

I wonder if Tiffani insists that Brides Magazine's website be hosted on an Apache server?

It kind of annoys me when brides and grooms have a list of questions they ask the photographer, and one of them is what camera do you use?

It is irrelevant and your published work should be the only thing that matters... Although I use 5d4 and good lenses, I would not hesitate in hiring a photographer with a mirror less Sony system..

LucasCK wrote in post #18238512
It kind of annoys me when brides and grooms have a list of questions they ask the photographer, and one of them is what camera do you use?

It is irrelevant and your published work should be the only thing that matters...

I disagree........at least a little bit. I wouldn't necessarily say that published work is the only thing that matters. In some cases, maybe even most cases, printed work matters, as well.

Also, the kind of camera a wedding photographer uses may in some cases not be as irrelevant as you think. If someone is going to hire a wedding photographer, and something they really want are big prints, say 3 feet by 5 feet, and they are going to be hung in places where the viewing distance is quite close, then pixel count and sensor size will matter, if they are looking for the types of photos that will show a lot of fine detail, such as the texture in the material of the clothes, precisely rendered hair, etc.

When viewing a wedding photographers published work, it usually isn't possible to see exactly how those images would be rendered if printed at 5 feet.

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Tom Reichner wrote in post #18238675
I disagree........at least a little bit. I wouldn't necessarily say that published work is the only thing that matters. In some cases, maybe even most cases, printed work matters, as well.

Also, the kind of camera a wedding photographer uses may in some cases not be as irrelevant as you think. If someone is going to hire a wedding photographer, and something they really want are big prints, say 3 feet by 5 feet, and they are going to be hung in places where the viewing distance is quite close, then pixel count and sensor size will matter, if they are looking for the types of photos that will show a lot of fine detail, such as the texture in the material of the clothes, precisely rendered hair, etc.

When viewing a wedding photographers published work, it usually isn't possible to see exactly how those images would be rendered if printed at 5 feet.

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I have yet to find a bride in my wedding photography or day to day life that has printed something 5' tall. Heck your lucky if they print a 8x10 any more. I know I know markets very and so do the brides, but realistically for the average bride, it really does not matter the brand of the camera or even if its full frame or crop or mirror less. 9 times out of 10 its the photographer using the camera that makes all the difference.