Originally Posted by Mark W  My estimation is that this is the most difficult way to earn a crust from camming. |
My worry entirely!
OK, so the day went reasonably well and I was quite fortunate in some respects. i knew a bundle of the people there and even got a thank-you from the groom in his speach for doing it
The photographer was also a friend of the family (but a real photographer to boot) which helped so there was no animosity anywhere whcih I think was good. I've heard lots of stories about videographers fighting with the photographer.
The only one I fought with was the disco guy. I had aboslutle NO CHANCE of going around to poeple and asking them to say a few congratulatory words on camera for the bride and groom. For me he got it all wrong! What's more the business has changed since I last went to a disco of any kind. No disc of any kind, just an laptop playing MP3s!!! Let's face it, his clientell was couple s and many of more senior years, yet at full blast all we had was young pop songs. Got on everyone's tits I think! Wasn't even quiet when the food came out.
Tell you people what though, for a registry office do it was better than most churches. The wedding was at the Guildhall in Windsor, wher Charlie and Camilla got wed (and Elton john apparently!). Beautiful place.
So I did a two camera shoot on my own. Set up the little camera as a catch all wider shot and I stood behind my FX1 and did the closeups with that.
have a look at the wedding car. interesting hardly does it!
I'll write more soon. not going to edit yet. Waiting on my new quad core box and Adobe CS4 to start it.