Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/19

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Subject: RE: [Leica] 1st Wedding assignment --- should I ?
From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 04:22:32 -0500

> I would go in as a backup  shooter and maybe the whole experience 
> will be a pleasant one as well as very  educational one.

This is the most sensible option, if it's one.

- - Phong

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> DFangon@aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:55 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 1st Wedding assignment --- should I ?
> 
> 
> In a message dated 11/18/02 9:59:12 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> tedgrant@shaw.ca writes:
> 
> << Oh mother of  whom-ever.... hire someone experienced to shoot it if you are
>  asking questions like this,  >>
> 
> ROFLOL!
> 
> Ted is very kind trying to inject humor into it, but IT IS a tremendous 
> responsibility.  And, it doesn't take much to turn the whole thing into a 
> total fiasco.  Batteries running out at the wrong time.  Films not being 
> properly spooled because one is in a hurry to get ready to restart shooting 
> because things are happening at a fast pace.  Failing to adjust the ISO 
> setting after you change film from 160 to 400.  Making the wrong turn from 
> the church to the reception thus holding everything up.  
> 
> Even after you thought you came off unscathed, you arrive home and when you 
> open your bag, you can't find your 35mm lens and you can't remember where you 
> placed it after you changed to a 90 mm lens to get some tight shots of the 
> couple.
> 
> A whole bunch of things happen even to the most experienced wedding shooters 
> out there,  think what can happen to a novice.  I would go in as a backup 
> shooter and maybe the whole experience will be a pleasant one as well as very 
> educational one, but to take the whole burden of responsibility without 
> having done it before is very risky business.
> 
> Be glad you asked advice and be thankful there is a Ted Grant to tell it like 
> it is.
> 
> Dante
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