Shots from 1st wedding

[Jerome]

> To shoot more than that
> makes the photographer into a pest,
> and removes what little pleasure the
> bride and groom can
> hope to have during the day.

Then I guess I was one hell of a pest!

But as you alluded to, most of my volume was from two things: shooting
digital and being a novice. Between the two, I took tons of shots that
were redundant just to make sure I would have *something* that worked out.
As my confidence grows, this will become less necessary. I still serve as
an occasional "wedding caddie" for a seasoned pro, so I'll get to be
reminded this weekend of the right and wrongs of "shooting with style".

Also, so many of my shots were from across the room, non-posed and/or
inaminate objects (80 of the make-up application, 28 of the cake, 20 of
the dress, a couple hundred of stupid details like church stainglass just
because I had nothing better to do at the moment, etc.) that I'm not sure
if the bride would've noticed the difference between 300 shots and 1000.
Again, I guess that's a virtue of shooting digitally.

Then again, there were those two times during the ceremony that she told
me to get the heck out of her face with my big stupid camera. Just
kidding.