As wedding videos go this was very very good and wedding videos usually bore the **** out of me.
BUT.......
OK, heres my problem, and before I get started I will admit to being guilty of the following - `best of` videos and galleries on photographers/videographers websites are in no way representative of a `complete` wedding. You/we are picking moments from multiple weddings and putting them to a piece of touching music, maybe throw a few black and whites in there and voila! you have a great marketing tool - however the problem I have found is that its actually rather hard to deliver a singular product that is truly representative of the work in ones gallery or showreel. And thats not necessarily the fault of the photographer/videographer. The issue lies with all these showreels/slideshows that adorn the wedding photographers websites.
For example - I could easily put together a 20 image slideshow paired with a touching piano concerto (maybe something like a nice light Debussy in D minor with that soaring major lift halfway though?) and it would look awesome, you can tell a story nicely - 2 bridal prep shots - a groom standing at the front of a church looking nervous, that first look as they see each other etc - but you try to deliver to a client 20 shots of their day, they are going to go ****ing mental! They want the group shots, they expect photos of every single person doing something emotional/funny/whacky etc.
They have an idea of how their wedding photos will look in their head, but they fail to factor in they are getting ready in a travel-lodge, or the registrar will not allow photos during the ceremony - or the room where they are doing the speeches is darker than midnight in a mineshaft so you are bouncing light off walls to at least add some depth, or they want those amazing portraits but `we can only give you five minutes before we have to sit down to dinner`.
Even the wedding photographers amongst us here like Raymond for example - he posts his very best images of the day - I would be `muy interesado` in seeing a complete wedding from him, warts and all - its not a knock on, god no, but I have worked with many photographers and shot a huge number of weddings myself to know that in every wedding they are a number of images that are just averagely OK.
Now I am in a fortunate position whereas the majority of my clients opt for an album package, which allows me to show my interpretation of the day - and during the sales pitch (even more so now) I say I don`t scrapbook an album - that is - fill it to the brim with photos just for the sake of it - I use phrases such as `we need to allow the images room to breath` etc..
However a recent example is actually a wedding I shot with your very own Jake/Phate - its one of my favourite collections of the year, we managed to delivery 610 photos, all lovingly processed and telling the story of the day really well. The couple have contacted me and said they LOVED the images, but was there anymore or was that it?? Its damn annoying as there is NOTHING we missed out in terms of events - granted we may not of taken portraits or even photographed all 130 guests there, but it is a solid set. I am looking forward to doing their album shortly to show you don`t need thousands of images to capture the day.
Anway, I have gone off-topic and hjjacked this thread with my monologuing. Its also 03:15 in the morning and I am knackerd!
I`ve actually just read though the post above and don`t think I managed to et around to what I was originally trying to say. But pick over what is here if you like.
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. Not sure if that's a good or a bad thing based on your quality comment (though the cameras shoot in 1080p, but it's only uploaded as 720p at the moment)! We are buying a 5DMKII for our top-end package as a third camera, but we normally use and this was all shot on Sony Z7s.
