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BE VERY VERY CAREFUL PEOPLE.
I WENT TO HIS SITE.
ON THE FIRST PAGE IS A SUPPOSED LINK TO A NIGERIAN PAYPAL APP FOR ALL TYPES OF MOBILE PHONES.
Since Paypal has deem it fit to brought forward PayPal to Nigeria on the 17th/06/2014 to boost Nigeria online marketing, one of the best ways to make efficient and effective use of this service is to download Paypal app for your mobile operating system....

RED FLAG WAVING, RED FLAG WAVING, RED FLAG WAVING.
BELLS RINGING, BELLS RINGING, DING DING DING DING

And his first post here wants to know the favourite camera you have and its cost. DING DING DING DING

Looks like his post here is just to get traffic back to his website where the probable scam app has just been made "legal" 3 days ago.

Oh yeh, and another mobile app to shop with your phone.

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BELLS RINGING, BELLS RINGING, DING DING DING DING

Mogul, your post was both humorous and pointed. Just because a couple can't afford an $80,000 wedding, and can just barely scrape up enough funds for a back yard BBQ and an old prom dress, it in no way lessens their love for each other, their desire to start a life together or the sanctity of the marriage they are entering into. The wedding day, and what the events of the day represent, are no less important to them than to the couple who can afford an expensive affair. Whether they are serving Chateaubriand or BBQ pork butt, they want the day commemorated in pictures, and anyone who has been tasked with the important job of taking those pictures should be encouraged and helped by people in this group to do as good a job as possible.

Love and commitment are the same, whether you are a multimillionaire or just scraping by, and any photographer who is just trying to help should be treated with respect in this forum, regardless of their level of photographic proficiency.

There are a lot of threads here that are based on the subject of weddings. It seems to be a standard assumption that most of these events are WEDDINGS, formal affairs with the bride in a $5000 dress (or her grandmother's dress) and her attendants in really ugly handmade dresses; the groom and groomsmen are all wearing rented tuxedos. The affair includes two sets of parents who've been married 25-30 years, grandparents, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, family friends - and the bride and grooms' parents' employers. There's a wedding planner, a florist, a baker, a caterer, a bartender, several servers, one poor left-out forgotten friend who is assigned the "honor" of getting everybody to sign a guest book that will never be seen after the wedding day (unless subpoenaed at a later date) there might be one or two old boyfriends or girlfriends invited by someone with a sense of humor - and there's a photographer or two or three. The WEDDING takes place in a church, or a garden or a beach (didn't anybody bother to say, "No heels, wear sandals or flats"? The photographer for this event had better be a local professional with a lot of equipment and crew to match. The bride's mother, who is IN CHARGO of the WEDDING is certainly the photographer's boss, and Heaven help the photographer who doesn't follow her directions in spite of his/her having successfully shot 200 weddings in the past oyear. And every darned picture WILL be perfect!

But, what about those other weddings. The bride is wearing a borrowed dress or a white or pink dinner dress, her maid of honor is in a miniskirt from high school, the groom is in a suit or sport jacket (hopefully with a tie) and the rest of the guests are dressed business casual to cut-offs and sweat shirts (some inside out). The venue is a cow pasture, a wedding chapel or, if this is a "formal" wedding, the small chapel of an otherwise large church; it might even be a JP's office or a jury deliberation room. The wedding planner is the minister's wife, the flowers are from Home Depot, the cake is a special order from Piggly-Wiggly, the caterer is Buba's B-B-Q ("Roast Pigs our Specialty"). The photographer is that cousin from out of state who is asked casually (15 minutes before the wedding) if he happens to have a camera (knowing, of course, that the guy/girl has a trunk full of gear, but not knowing that it's all dedicated to BIF, landscapes and patches of Lupine and Poppies along the freeway). This is the guy who is going to end up shooting the entire wedding, reception and subsequent arrest of half the guests for being drunk and disorderly. This is also the guy/girl who is going to get the reputation as the "family wedding photographer" and will be asked to photograph the next event, whether it be a wedding or a WEDDING,

This is also the member who is going to post a thread here asking, "what camera/lens should I use and can you recommend a shutter speed/aperture/ISO?" And half the responding members will try to help this poor soul and the other half will tell him/her that if he/she doesn't already know, he/she is crazy/stupid/masochistic for asking in the first place. Of course, the member is not going to get paid ("take some of that roast home with you") or thanked ("you took some good pictures; that's a mighty fine camera you have there"). And some of you are going to delight in destroying any hope this person has of getting out of this with anything but a promise to photograph Cousin Harriet and Cousin Beau at their wedding in July (yes, they're marrying each other - and it has to be in July; she's due in August). Thanks for the help!