On 7/8/2013 1:11 PM, Bill wrote:
Well, yes there is: Mothers who don't have the first clue as to how
to go about matching skin tones between their neck and their face.
I shot a wedding a couple of decades ago where the bride and
bridesmaids had pooled their cosmetics inventories and did their
make-up out of the combined resources from several (cheap) brands. In
normal light, everything looked more or less fine, given that not one
of them knew a thing about applying facial cosmetics. Unfortunately,
electronic flash is not normal light. It has a fairly high % of UV
light, which caused the various brands of make-up to fluoresce
differently.
There were zebra stripes, swirls, mottles, splotches and pretty much
every make up fail imaginable on all 5 girls in the wedding party
(even the Flower Girl got monster make up) in EVERY picture, since
even the available light work was done with some fill flash.
Add to it a couple of drunken uncles and a jealous ex girlfriend of
the groom who showed up with the bride's kid brother (who the groom
didn't like much), and yes, I would go out on a limb and say that
there is worse.
Much worse.
At least you have Photoshop.
bill
Ha! At some point, you just have to join the drunken uncles, I guess.
One thing I do have going for me is that I've always intended to keep
family portraiture and wedding photography to an absolute bare minimum
-- usually only as a favor for a friend, unless I just happen upon one
of those irresistibly interesting families one encounters from time to
time. This particular shoot I'm just going to have to chalk up as a
learning experience/object lesson and try to cheat my way to creating
presentable images when I'm done with them.
I guess I need to get to work on that checklist Larry suggested when I
get done with these.
-- Walt
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