1/2 a wedding collection

[ADavidhazy-2]

Although I posted this link on my Facebook page I thought you all
in PhotoForum might want to see what part of the result of photographing
a wedding turned out to be. This was not a "paid" job but I did play the
part of a hired photographer. The story behind the set is that I covered
the wedding of the mother of the bride about 25 or 30 years ago. So the
daughter tracked me down and requested I photograph her wedding as well.
To make a long story short I agreed with reservations. But agreed
nevertheless. BTW, in the in-between time I got out of the wedding habit.
So, the link below takes you to a single page of thumbnails of the "middle"
part of the set. Previous set was the "rehearsal" dinner and following this
was the socializing and dancing, etc. set. Total of about 450 photographs.
Dome with a Canon 5D Mark II and auxiliary flash in daylight and flash
indoors.

http://people.rit.edu/andpph/a-pix/2009-christine-thumbs-1.jpg

;)
andy

[John Palcewski]

Andy, back when I did weddings I used to tell the bride-to-be that it's a good idea to have the ceremony in the morning.  That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

 

 

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:23 PM, ADavidhazy <andpph@...> wrote:

Although I posted this link on my Facebook page I thought you all
in PhotoForum might want to see what part of the result of photographing
a wedding turned out to be. This was not a "paid" job but I did play the
part of a hired photographer. The story behind the set is that I covered
the wedding of the mother of the bride about 25 or 30 years ago. So the
daughter tracked me down and requested I photograph her wedding as well.
To make a long story short I agreed with reservations. But agreed
nevertheless. BTW, in the in-between time I got out of the wedding habit.
So, the link below takes you to a single page of thumbnails of the "middle"
part of the set. Previous set was the "rehearsal" dinner and following this
was the socializing and dancing, etc. set. Total of about 450 photographs.
Dome with a Canon 5D Mark II and auxiliary flash in daylight and flash
indoors.

http://people.rit.edu/andpph/a-pix/2009-christine-thumbs-1.jpg

;)
andy

[Gregory Fraser-2]

Nice work Andy. Just one question. Who has the foot fetish - you or the
bride? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Greg

[ADavidhazy-2]

Greg,

Good question. I guess the fault was mine .. for wanting to make sure that
there was a record of this bit of trivia from the event. There is only one
regret ... I should have moved in closer!

andy

Gregory Fraser wrote:

> Nice work Andy. Just one question. Who has the foot fetish - you or the
> bride? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
>
> Greg

[MichaelHughes7A]

In a message dated 22/09/2009 20:37:43 GMT Daylight Time, palcewski@... writes:

Andy, back when I did weddings I used to tell the bride-to-be that it's a good idea to have the ceremony in the morning.  That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

 

Surely that's the case for a wedding in the afternoon, though I suppose a morning wedding might let the bridegroom get to the soccer match in the afternoon.

 

 

On a more serious note even the fractional view of this series of events shows how far certain sections of society have gone in pushing wedding ceremonies and celebrations to the point where few can truly afford them.

 

My own wedding almost exactly 50 years ago (October 10th) was a simple affair with Nuptial Mass in our parish church followed by a lunch for 60 people - mainly relatives, nevertheless the phrase 'butchered to make a Roman holiday' came to mind.   When the guest list was in preparation and the names of distant (and remote) relatives had been duly listed my wife asked ' can we invite a couple of our friends' to bring the total to 60 - which was the capacity of the venue for a hot lunch.   PS the glue held and we both live to tell the tale. Deo Gratias.

[John Palcewski]

Congratulations!   That's quite an achievement.  Or perhaps some exceptionally strong glue.

 

But marriage has always been a triumph of hope over reason.   My experience of it was a disaster, twice, although I now have fond memories of my favorite ex.

 

 

 

 

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:19 AM, <MichaelHughes7A@...> wrote:

In a message dated 22/09/2009 20:37:43 GMT Daylight Time, palcewski@... writes:

 that's the case for a wedding in the afternoon, though I suppose a morning wedding might let the bridegroom get to the soccer match in the afternoon.

On a more serious note even the fractional view of this series of events shows how far certain sections of society have gone in pushing wedding ceremonies and celebrations to the point where few can truly afford them.

 

My own wedding almost exactly 50 years ago (October 10th) was a simple affair with Nuptial Mass in our parish church followed by a lunch for 60 people - mainly relatives, nevertheless the phrase 'butchered to make a Roman holiday' came to mind.   When the guest list was in preparation and the names of distant (and remote) relatives had been duly listed my wife asked ' can we invite a couple of our friends' to bring the total to 60 - which was the capacity of the venue for a hot lunch.   PS the glue held and we both live to tell the tale. Deo Gratias.

[David Dyer-Bennet]

MichaelHughes7A@... wrote:
> On a more serious note even the fractional view of this series of
> events shows how far certain sections of society have gone in pushing
> wedding ceremonies and celebrations to the point where few can truly
> afford them.

They rent the lobby and grounds of the building I work in for weddings,
so most Friday afternoons during the summer I get to watch them set up,
and get to watch the photographers working with the bride and groom and
others for portraits and group shots.  (Mostly I'm gone before the real
event gets started; or else so head-down in my code that I'm not
watching the wedding.)  I rarely see them set up for fewer than 200
people for dinner.  Between that and the rental (and I get different
answers on rental depending on who I ask), we're already up to $12,000
or so.

I have yet to see a man acting as one of the photographers; always seems
to be women out there with two DSLRs around their necks.

More strangely, I've never seen them using any sort of light-modifiers
or light sources for the pictures they're doing; they're working with
100% straight natural light.  That seems like a major oversight to me.

My wife and I had a very nice wedding, coming up on 27 years ago now.  
Cost us around $200, I think.  The one drawback is that almost no photos
emerged from the experience; one person had to cancel at the last
minute, and two others that should have known better both produced
useless film.  But we've never found that a huge tragedy, either.

--
David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@...; http://dd-b.net/
Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/
Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/
Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

[Bob W8IMO]

Ours is going on 45 years, 27 March.  Same deal with costs.  But we lost
the photos in a interstate move......

Bob

David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
> My wife and I had a very nice wedding, coming up on 27 years ago now.  
> Cost us around $200, I think.  The one drawback is that almost no
> photos emerged from the experience; one person had to cancel at the
> last minute, and two others that should have known better both
> produced useless film.  But we've never found that a huge tragedy,
> either.
>

--

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                          ( O O )
--------------------oOOO-----O----OOOo-----73 de w8imo@...------
             I plan to live forever.  So far, so good......

[Chris-723]

I got married on the 4 July 1962 and we were going to live in America. Things went wrong. We did go to the US but I bought a gun.... Things went wrong. The marriage was broken by a court and no record exists. We did have children too and she came back but things went wrong.

I'm on a respite holiday today at Four Marks (UK) to rest from looking after mum who is 97 and senile. Today I saw one of those Corn Circles on the A31 on the way to Winchester and took a photograph. This one is hexagonal and remains in the stubble where the weat has been cut. It looks like the weat has been plucked out of the ground in the lanes between the stalks.

Chris.



On 23 September 2009 at 16:17 Bob <w8imo@...> wrote:

> Ours is going on 45 years, 27 March.  Same deal with costs.  But we lost
> the photos in a interstate move......
>
> Bob
>
> David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> >
> > My wife and I had a very nice wedding, coming up on 27 years ago now. 
> > Cost us around $200, I think.  The one drawback is that almost no
> > photos emerged from the experience; one person had to cancel at the
> > last minute, and two others that should have known better both
> > produced useless film.  But we've never found that a huge tragedy,
> > either.
> >
>
> --
>
>                            /////
>                           ( O O )
> --------------------oOOO-----O----OOOo-----73 de w8imo@...------
>              I plan to live forever.  So far, so good......
>
>
>

[Marilyn Dalrymple]

Wonderful photographs, but even a better story, Andy.

Thank you for sharing.

Marilyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "ADavidhazy" <andpph@...>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
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Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:23 PM
Subject: 1/2 a wedding collection

> Although I posted this link on my Facebook page I thought you all
> in PhotoForum might want to see what part of the result of photographing
> a wedding turned out to be. This was not a "paid" job but I did play the
> part of a hired photographer. The story behind the set is that I covered
> the wedding of the mother of the bride about 25 or 30 years ago. So the
> daughter tracked me down and requested I photograph her wedding as well.
> To make a long story short I agreed with reservations. But agreed
> nevertheless. BTW, in the in-between time I got out of the wedding habit.
> So, the link below takes you to a single page of thumbnails of the
> "middle"
> part of the set. Previous set was the "rehearsal" dinner and following
> this
> was the socializing and dancing, etc. set. Total of about 450 photographs.
> Dome with a Canon 5D Mark II and auxiliary flash in daylight and flash
> indoors.
>
> http://people.rit.edu/andpph/a-pix/2009-christine-thumbs-1.jpg
>
> ;)
> andy
>

[karl shah-jenner]

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

"e brownsnout spookfish, Dolichopteryx longipes, is a species of barreleye
in the family Opisthoproctidae. It is the only vertebrate known to employ a
mirror, as opposed to a lens, to focus an image in its eyes"


D. longipes is unusual in that it utilizes both refractive and reflective
optics in sight. The main tubular eye contains a lateral ovoid swelling
called a "diverticulum", largely separated from the eye by a septum. The
retina lines most of the interior of the eye, and there are two corneal
openings, one directed up and the other down, that allow light into the
main eye and the diverticulum respectively. The main eye employs a lens to
focus its image, as in other fishes. However, inside the diverticulum the
light is reflected and focused onto the retina by a curved composite mirror
derived from the retinal tapetum, composed of many layers of small
reflective plates made of guanine crystals. The split structure of the D.
longiceps eye allows the fish to see both up and down at the same time. In
addition, the mirror system is superior to a lens in gathering light. It is
likely that the main eye serves to detect objects silhouetted against the
sunlight, while the diverticulum serves to detect bioluminescent flashes
from the sides and below.[1]