There is a photographer, Peter Doyle, who sets up a black background at the reception and takes group portraits, or maybe his assistant does this. Does anyone know of any other photographers who do this? I really like this idea.
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There is a photographer, Peter Doyle, who sets up a black background at the reception and takes group portraits, or maybe his assistant does this. Does anyone know of any other photographers who do this? I really like this idea.
portraits of who? your guests?
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Would this be in addition to your regular photographer? If its not, then I don't know if its such a good idea, but if it is, you could sort of set it up like a photobooth thing but only with a live photographer.
Espo22
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Do you mean the way they do it at a prom?
smjack
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these are some pics from his site of portraits on the black background. he has an assistant with him and he takes some of the pictures as well.
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I honestly love the idea. I have seen this or lets say hear of this at someone's wedding that was $$$$. You need a entire CH to do this though because you need a extra room or large cocktail room to setup lights and a black tarp. As couples come in / guest come in you snap a portrait. Its really amazing.. just think of going to medieval times but obv. much nicer.
You can than as favors send them the portrait (put a note on table or inform them that the picture is their favor). And you get a album of the people of your wedding.
Of course the person who i heard did this had a army of photographers at her will. She had the portrait photographer with lighting assistant. One photo journ, one std photographer, videographer and two photo assistants. A bit much but i heard it was soo amazing the pics.
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I honestly love the idea. I have seen this or lets say hear of this at someone's wedding that was $$$$. You need a entire CH to do this though because you need a extra room or large cocktail room to setup lights and a black tarp. As couples come in / guest come in you snap a portrait. Its really amazing.. just think of going to medieval times but obv. much nicer.
You can than as favors send them the portrait (put a note on table or inform them that the picture is their favor). And you get a album of the people of your wedding.
Of course the person who i heard did this had a army of photographers at her will. She had the portrait photographer with lighting assistant. One photo journ, one std photographer, videographer and two photo assistants. A bit much but i heard it was soo amazing the pics.
wow that sounds a bit over the top!! This guy is very reasonably priced, alot more so then others i have seen girls talking about on here, so that is a good thing. also, from what he told me, they don't need a large space at all....just a small area big enough to fit the backdrop and a couple lights. However, I am sure that people have had much more elaborate setups for somthing like this....i can only imagine. but i agree, it makes for some great pics that you would not get otherwise.....and even great favors but i wonder what you give the guests that dont do a picture lol
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I would ask a LOT of questions b4 I would agfree to this. You don't want to miss an opportunity to take pics with your DH. It might be worth checking into. Coudl you have 3 photographers to make sure nothing is missed?
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My photog offered this. But he doesn't take the pics. It is set up so that the guests can take the pics themselves. They just press a clicker and done! We didn't do it b/c we just didn't think it necessary. But it seemed really cool and the pics that he showed us taken that way looked like people have a great time taking pics of themselves!! lol.
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WOW really they just press and thats it?? Damn that is soo cool. Maybe I will look into this if damn the road i have some extra cash. I really do love the idea.
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I've seen this done before at a wedding and honestly, I think it takes away from the wedding. So many ppl interested in taking their portraits that there was actually a line forming. I would definitely get more information before considering something like this.
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Thanks Audreygirl. I'm going to contact Roberto, he seems really great. Its even better that the guests can shoot the pics themselves. Won't need an assistant to watch over it. I think the pics would be so much more fun than those stiff group shots.
