Like most photographers and would-be photographers, I enjoy the equipment itself… the beauty of products well made. But the prices often leave me dizzy and weeping.

Among the many ways of trying to pay for all that camera gear, the one for me that inspires the most dread is the wedding assignment. The opportunity to reshoot is completely, as they say, out of the picture.

And let’s not entertain the possibility of memory card failure. But I’m sure that’s not the half of it.

I await to hear your tales of wedding photography woe…

Another wedding disaster

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It’s no bad thing to learn photography from books or online tutorials. But where it often goes wrong is that adherents tend to take that advice as absolute. They then either practise or pontificate as though straying from the rote path will lead to hell or humiliation.

No matter whether it concerns holding the camera, shutter speeds, ISO no-nos, or standard lighting setups and so on, good things can happen when you experiment… when you lose your way and find yourself again with a startling new perspective.

Just don’t do this on a wedding assignment.

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