Wedding Photography

southernbubby

Mon, Feb 26 2007, 11:05 am

I didn't see a thread on this topic and wonder if we should start re-thinking chassunah photography.
From my own experiences, I have found that the Isrealis have the best system. We paid about $350 for the still shots and not much more for a video and then we were given a CD from which to develop pictures and assemble our own album. There was no problem with tznius or with the photography taking up half of the day of the chassunah.
In the US we have a lot to learn. Even the frum photographers might be posing couples in ways that are not tznius or asking married couples to stand too close together. (Sometimes the mother of the chosson or kallah is niddah and should not stand so close as to be touching her husband). The price of frum photographers may make photography one of the largest expenses of the chassunah. Despite the fact that family and friends will have traveled from far and wide to spend tome with the baal simcha, he or she will be spending hours having his or her picture taken. We all want pictures to remember this great event in our lives but do we need to re-think chassunah photography?

lotte

Mon, Feb 26 2007, 11:57 am

bubby,it is interesting to see how you see things .
We got married in Israel and I always feel as if we missed something at the wedding because of the pictures issue.
The Israeli photographers are not as professional and they know nothing about the American style photos.In Israe there is also no such a thing as "picture time".10 minutes by the end of the wedding..the gantze mishpuche is all gathering..tired..and all you have to remember is pictures with 40 ppl in each... LOL

The only few "NORMAL" pics we have are those who were taken in the yichud room while people were knocking on the door:"Nu.everybody is waiting to dance with you..." Very Happy

OTOH-I totally agree with you about tznius issue and btw- I was always wondering-how come all couples were allowed to touch at that wedding day?whenever I go to relatives or friends looking at wedding pics I wonder how can it be?
I know photographers don't ask each couple:can you touch your wife now?etc...Interesting!

su7kids ↓

Mon, Feb 26 2007, 12:33 pm

We were very happy with our wedding photographer. We actually brought someone to CA from NY, because of tznius reasons, and we wanted someone who know what pictures to take, etc.

We were very happy with him, and his prices are quite reasonable in the big picture (hey, that's a pun!) compared to others, and he was very well aware of the tznius issues and he was quick. That was the most important part of the whole thing for us.

mimsy7420

Mon, Feb 26 2007, 2:11 pm

I think photography at a wedding is a very worthwhile expense. I think it's one of the most important expenses in fact, because the pictures last forever and give you memories forever. I was once speaking to a bride and she said she didn't care about anything but the invitations. shock

I thought that was weird, because honestly I look at the invitation make a mental note of the date and throw it in the garbage.

And most photographers who do the frum weddings, know not to make the chosson kallah have not tznius poses for their portraits. They know that some couples won't want to touch at all and some won't mind, and they know to ask what the the chosson and kallah are looking for. Our photographers barely told me my husband to even put his arm around me in our pictures, and I wouldn't have minded more touching pictures (DH is another matter Smile

) but I never mentioned it, so he just took the safest route.

queen

Mon, Feb 26 2007, 3:05 pm

our photographer asked if we wanted "certain" types of pictures or not.
OTOH- if chosson and kallah were nidda, I'd think photographer should be told simply- "they don't want any touching pictures...."

lamplighter

Mon, Feb 26 2007, 6:12 pm

our photographer also asked if we wanted romantic pictures and since we didnt know whta that entailed, we opted for teh more basic ones.
at my brohter's wedding, we had a frum photographer who kept telling my husband and I to move closer....well I was a nidda and I ws dead embaressed!!!!!

miriamnechama ↓

Thu, Feb 07 2008, 10:30 am

cute to see this thread Wink

well I got marriued in israel and absolutely loved my photographer.

true he was new to the job and not so experienced, but he was fine for me.. I don't like this posy wosy thing where you have to stand in position for hours... that's one thing that drives me crazy at weddings in london.. do this head this way etc.

he just let me do what I wanted.... and we had great ideas like taking pictures on the roof of the haal with teh whole view of yerushalaim.. a pix of the kosel and swiss nountains on teh walls of teh office... what could be better. he was just so natuarl it was great!!

we got all the negs, just chaval that I can't put them on disk.. also some of tehnegs got lost.. so I don't even know how to copy those into teh computer...

↑ su7kids

Thu, Feb 07 2008, 10:55 am

miriamnechama wrote:

we got all the negs, just chaval that I can't put them on disk.. also some of tehnegs got lost.. so I don't even know how to copy those into teh computer...

There are many places that will take your negatives and put the pictures onto a CD for you. Any photography studio/printing place. The kind of place you used to take your rolls of film to.

And for the pictures which negs you don't have, take those pictures to the same person and ask them to scan them for you.

↑ miriamnechama

Thu, Feb 07 2008, 10:59 am

su7kids wrote:

miriamnechama wrote:

we got all the negs, just chaval that I can't put them on disk.. also some of tehnegs got lost.. so I don't even know how to copy those into teh computer...

great idea thanks... I'd like to make a cd of them one day...