I really enjoyed reading about your experience, and you obviously have a lot more information and technical skill than we had going into our first shoot, and I dig the images you have posted too.

It takes a while to figure out what gear really suits you, and honestly I’m totally married to my 35mm f2, I could shoot an entire wedding day with that thing, and I can’t explain it, but it just “fits”. I also use the 14mm a lot, mostly for reception shooting because it allows you capture an entire dance-floor in one fell swoop, but it’s not a practical lens to have on your camera at all times. If you wanna go wider, I suggest checking out the Canon’s 15mm, it’s about $600 US, and though you get a little fisheye distortion, it’ll give you the wide shots you’re after at more than half the price of the 14mm.

Anyways, thanks for blogging, I’ll keep reading!

Nico

You insult the intelligence of the other people here with no reason more than your own pleasure. Resentment seems to be your thing, maybe some envy but as you say yourself “who the fuck cares” how bitter you are and why.

On the other side, great work Glenn, some of us who don’t know everything about everything actually learn from your posts.

Tbh tho, I think you made a mistake buying the 135L if you are going to be shooting weddings, I personally find primes a pain in that situation, The flexibility of having zoom lenses can sometimes be the difference between getting that ‘must have’ shot and not getting it. Also a really easy way to create awesome looking photo’s is by learning off camera flash.

oh and Jsmyth – wide angle can produce flatting portraits (possibly better than a 24-70) if you learn how to use it ;)

I would love to see some of the images you took, but if the bride and groom asked for them not to be shown, I understand.

Congrats, again.

You’re making leaps and bounds, not many people, I would guess, at the age of sixteen are photographing weddings. It’s been very interesting watching your hobby grow into a source of income so soon.

Keep taking some of these wonderful pictures, though I wouldn’t mind if you blogged a bit more as well! :-)

Jonathan

Speedlites are great, I think that is a good purchase for the future. I don’t own one yet, but I did inherit an older Flashgun to play with and have found it most useful when shooting indoors.

Alec, honestly, what are your real intentions about being so critical and mean? Is it that you want attention or traffic to your website or something? A true professional never expresses themselves in such way, but then again, your response would probably be that everyone is different and that you can act and do whatever you want.

You know, people aren’t born knowing everything so they have to start somewhere and take steps towards learning whatever it is, especially when it comes down to photography. There was also a time when you were new to Photography, and you were learning and being taught by others. You probably didn’t have such a great experience like Glenn is having now, and that’s probably why you’re acting the way you are, but then again, that’s just what it seems like to me from the way you express yourself. Just try to be nice and keep it low on the negativity. Do you even realize how many time you technically called Glenn stupid from your posts? Jeeze…lighten up.

Actually I think the pic of a guy taking a picture is rather creative.

Yeah, I thought the same thing. Great idea.

“YOU TAKE PIC-CHAR OF GUY TAKING PIC-CHAR, OH EM GEE”

It’s called being creative Alec.

Photos usually don’t go under NDA’s ;).

And Joe, Amy Winehouse is the crackwhore, Mark Ronson is the chav.

And Aidan: think before you type ;).