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Anonymous
ugh. I've got this wedding to shoot next weekend, but it's a bit of a drive so I won't be able to check out the location until before the wedding. So I do a quick google search to see if there are any other wedding photos available online at the location I could check out to see if there is anything that works particularly well there.

what the fuck is up with people these days. "hey, let's get our wedding pictures really saturated and with a huge vignette on them. That'll look awesome in 10 years"
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>> Anonymous
I was at a function a couple of weeks ago and overheard a wedding photographer talking about his work. I wasn't eavesdropping, he was ranting loudly enough half the people there could have listened to him. He was complaining about the work sucking and having to make creative decisions he didn't like to sell his work. He said the one photo of his which he hated, but which the majority of prospective customers loved was a selective desaturation where the flowers were in colour and the bride and groom b&w.

I'm not sure what the point of that was. People are morons and don't realise that it will look crap in a few years time. Also photogs who go for this gimmicky crap are idiots.
>> Anonymous
I think they were just trying to remove the wheelchair guy from the photo, pockmark as he is.
>> Anonymous
>>181588
photogs that go for this realize that the clients are paying their bills.
>> Serenar !m827jEgWi.
>>181588
Yeah it really seems to me like the photographers don't have a choice. Half the time the people paying have zero taste, but what they say goes.

Of course there are some photographers that have no taste themselves and they STILL rake in big bucks. Sigh.
>> Anonymous
>>181588
Whatever sells. To OP, make sure you talk to the couple and ask them what style they prefer and bring some examples. Even if you really hate to vignette, it's not your wedding. Besides, if you don't like them, it's not like you'll be showing them to anyone else. Just make the couple happy.
>> Anonymous
>>181593
The happier the couple/client is then the more likely they're going to recommend you to their friends and thus, more monies for you.

Whatever it is, most every style becomes passe because essentially it captivates a generation or a time period. As people, we want to be able to distinguish themselves from others and so, they embrace something that is dissimilar to the previous people. Effects like vignetting, lens flare, cross-processing are constants in the field of photography, however, it's the popularity and its allure in the time that really drives the photographers to play around with it more. If you appreciate photography, you should realize more about what was done, how it was approached and whether or not the photo is executed well. Biases against one thing or another should not exist. On a personal basis, someone can find all sunset photos to be boring. But certainly, one can be taken much better than another.