Music concert - everyone recording with their phone out.
Fireworks display - everyone recording with their phone out.
Bride comes down the aisle - everyone recording with their phone out.
It’s just pointless. You ruin your own experience of the event because you’re watching it on a screen instead of experiencing it directly, and you ruin other people’s experience too.
And the wedding one I’ve seen far too many times.
What do you think the official wedding photographer is there for? When the bride and groom watch their wedding video back they want to see a room of their happy family and friends, but instead they’ll get a video with rows of people staring at their own little rectangles and pointing them at the bride as she comes down the aisle.
Do yourself a favour and live in the moment sometimes, please.
I still remember when I saw the Mona Lisa in person. Everyone was facing the opposite direction, using selfie sticks to take a photo of themselves with the tiny painting. Just around the corner was an entire wall sized breathtaking artwork. I think that about sums up humanity.
I would say pretty much wedding I have been to in the past 10 or so years has had a no phone/camera policy during the ceremony. Before the ceremony starts, the officiant comes to the mic and reminds everybody and let’s them know their is a professional photographer and everybody will get to see the photos online later.
The rest of the wedding? Go wild. We actually had some app with a QR code that guests could scan when they arrived. Then between 5pm and 10pm (or whatever the time of the wedding was) - any photo they took was uploaded, and we got to see all of the photos everybody took plotted on a time line. If you didn’t want to use it, fine with me, I know how people are with privacy. But I thought it was cool.
Music concert - everyone recording with their phone out.
Fireworks display - everyone recording with their phone out.
Bride comes down the aisle - everyone recording with their phone out.
It’s just pointless. You ruin your own experience of the event because you’re watching it on a screen instead of experiencing it directly, and you ruin other people’s experience too.
And the wedding one I’ve seen far too many times.
What do you think the official wedding photographer is there for? When the bride and groom watch their wedding video back they want to see a room of their happy family and friends, but instead they’ll get a video with rows of people staring at their own little rectangles and pointing them at the bride as she comes down the aisle.
Do yourself a favour and live in the moment sometimes, please.
I still remember when I saw the Mona Lisa in person. Everyone was facing the opposite direction, using selfie sticks to take a photo of themselves with the tiny painting. Just around the corner was an entire wall sized breathtaking artwork. I think that about sums up humanity.
I would say pretty much wedding I have been to in the past 10 or so years has had a no phone/camera policy during the ceremony. Before the ceremony starts, the officiant comes to the mic and reminds everybody and let’s them know their is a professional photographer and everybody will get to see the photos online later.
The rest of the wedding? Go wild. We actually had some app with a QR code that guests could scan when they arrived. Then between 5pm and 10pm (or whatever the time of the wedding was) - any photo they took was uploaded, and we got to see all of the photos everybody took plotted on a time line. If you didn’t want to use it, fine with me, I know how people are with privacy. But I thought it was cool.
Phone cameras are a godsend when I need to remember.
They are a curse when I want to remember.
I try to always make a point when recording to have the phone down as much as I can manage, so I can actually watch the event with my special eyes.