Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, Colorado

blue-ultra Loc: New Hampshire

I saw that on TV. I told my wife that is the reason I don't do weddings anymore. Everyone has a camera and everybody thinks they are a photographer... While I would not do that to a women, the thought has crossed my mind on those occasions where you are hired to "get the shot" and some person with a point and shoot and now cell phones jumps in front of you!!!

Dun1 Loc: Atlanta, GA

Good for her. A wedding photographer friend of mine said a few weeks ago he was taking all the required photos of the families after the ceremony had taken place. He became constantly upstaged by phone camera users, and others with cameras. Every time arranged the participants, and composed the shot some other camera person would either jump in front of him and start shooting. He figured the after a few shots they would step aside, nope. He finally told the wedding coordinator and both families, "I will not take another shot until all of the people stop taking photos with their cameras, the limos you hired out front waiting out front of the church, the limo supervisor said your clock is running, and when your times has expired they will drive away." Amazingly he was able to complete the shoot without a great deal of interruption. The clock was also running for him and his two assistants, as they had another wedding to photograph also.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Love it. Photographers are hired — paid — to deliver the goods. Hopefully the bride posted a “no third party photography during ceremony” policy.

AirWalter Loc: Tipp City, Ohio

Todays population seems to have a rudeness that shows itself in everything They do. It's that Me, Me, Me thing showing it's ugly head. I don't blame the photographer for pushing Her out of the way one bit.

DebAnn Loc: Toronto

Interesting. I had a similar problem this last weekend when photographing my niece's wedding. I was the official photographer. The bride's father had asked if he could be the second on this shoot and I agreed - giving him a formal photo requirement sheet. Problem was, he brought along his current wife who had apparently learned to use a DSLR a few days before the wedding. She got in my way constantly, standing just behind and off to the side of me so I couldn't see what she was doing. Of course, there are shots where the subjects didn't know who they should be looking at and there were extra flashes going off at inappropriate moments. Even the bride's father acted badly. At one point he took the bride and groom off the photo site when I was gathering a large group and I had no idea where they'd gone. I'm currently composing my response to him since he had asked me to photograph another daughter's wedding in November. I'm not doing it if his wife has her camera in tow.

Cyberkinesis70 Loc: Northern Colorado

This is the reason I quit wedding photography a long time ago. I contracted to do a wedding. The bride and her mother were told that their friends could take all the pictures they wanted after I was done. It was agreed to and I collected payment. This was back in the film days. Well apparently, the friends didn't get the memo. I would setup a shot and have the strobes positioned and just as I would release the shutter, one would jump in front of the camera and trip the strobes with their Instamatic cameras. They ruined most of the wedding pictures. Mine were underexposed, but not beyond repair. A little dark room magic would have saved them. The friends pictures were overexposed for the most part. In any case, when I showed the proofs, the bride bitched and moaned that they were too dark. She wanted her money back, telling me her friends pictures were better. I gave her money back. Then she wanted the negatives and the proofs. I told her they were my property as stated in the contract. I burned them right in front of her. She cried about not having pictures for her album. Sorry, use your friends prints they are way better. So, that was my last day as a wedding photographer. I suspect it is even worse now.

sirlensalot Loc: Arizona

Pushing her was much too kind. lol

fotoman150

Recently I was photographing a wedding and an amateur directed the bridal party away when they were supposed to go into the reception. and I didn’t catch it until he had the whole bridal party in a dark stage in an auditorium photographing them for his portfolio.

Since then I have strict rules and I tell the bride to pass on house rules to the guests.