When we attend weddings, we get a little inconvenienced sometimes when the wedding photographer steps in front of us to get that “perfect shot” of the couple at the expense of our view. What no one realizes is that he is only doing his job (though a good cameraman will try not to block out someone’s view unless he really cannot help it). He was hired by the couple to do the most important job: the one of preserving memories. What the congregation expects to be an easy job is in fact, deceptively simple. “What’s there to do except prance around looking stupid holding a huge camera with a bigger lens and making a few poses yourself to get the perfect shot?” we think.
Apparently the work in this profession involves a lot of pre and post planning that no one knows anything about, because the camera guy does such a good job of hiding it all from unsuspecting, drunk, partygoers at weddings. Besides doing what they came to do, sometimes experienced and good ones avert crises that no one anticipates, and solve issues that no one knows have cropped up. Here’s a look at some of the advantages and disadvantages that being a wedding photographer entails.
