Bristol Wedding Photographer - Albert Palmer

Cadbury House, Bristol Wedding Photographer

0 Comments Published by Albert Palmer on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 10:47 AM.

Well I'm waiting for 2462 photos to render in Lightroom so I thought I would write a quick blog post. It was a really nice wedding in Cadbury House, just outside Bristol. A great venue and the lighting was pretty good. It was a much better venue to photograph a wedding in than others I have visited in the area.

Whilst I was there I got chatting to a few of the groom's friends about video and whether I would offer it at weddings. My answer was no.

I keep hearing people say that video is the future, that we will shoot clips of video and take a few of the good frames out to use as stills. However I just don't see it happening. Or rather I don't want to see this happen!

As much as I appreciate video and the technology that allows us to use it in a DSLR I think it would be a nail in the coffin for the skills that make us great photographers. It used to be that very few people were interested in taking the pictures because it was technically quite difficult. For some reason I quite like this idea but it is also great that photography is accessible to everyone. If it wasn't I probably wouldn't have started. But nowadays you don't have to think about exposure or focusing because the camera does it all for you in a microsecond. Whilst I appreciate this and certainly wouldn't be able to get half the shots I do without it I feel like we're in a good place.

I strongly believe that the end result is all that matters and how you get there doesn't matter. But a changing of the genre isn't something I'm not so sure I like.

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