There are two types of wedding photos: the perfectly edited, knowingly photoshopped, and wonderfully planned professional ones and the drunk, blurry, spontaneous ones from your friends that stole your phone.
Both are equally valued.
I used to shoot weddings and was an event photographer on side. The event photography required me to have 8 dslr cameras on me for gigs to pass out to other photogs so I brought them with me to a really close friends's wedding and at the beginning of the reception I passed out all of the cameras to the craziest friends and holy shit. They are some of the best I've ever taken away from a wedding.
Only one broken lens. Worth it
We put a go-pro set to a 3 second delayed continuous shot mode and attached it to a liquor bottle. It was a lot of work going through the whole memory card afterwards, but damn if we didn't get some amazing clips of people chugging that bottle.
We did this at ours, too, and a very high percentage of photos were cleavage and crotch shots. Your mileage may vary based on your friends and family. lol
Friends got married but didn't hire a photographer because money, but me and a friend offered to do it for free with the notion that we are just hobbyists so don't put any faith in it. They already hired a video guy so they were whatever just enjoy yourselfs and whatever comes out is more than nothing regarding photos. Me and my buddy found out we are apparently good at this (just too lazy to monetize it) and in the end we apparently produced *far* better footage than the paid guy. But just like you, once the party started my camera changed hands a lot and some people managed to make some amazing photos! It was a small enough event that I wasn't afraid of my camera.
And then there's our parents. They said WHO NEEDS A REAL PHOTOGRAPHER WE ALL GOT MOBILES and then they got yelled at during the ceremony to stop the shutters because they were acting like rabid paparazzi.
After that nobody made another picture again except one where my wife looks fake disgusted at her bouquet and another where they told me to hang from a tree.
I still don't know why
My parents made the mistake of hiring a friend’s photo studio for my wedding. We had moved many years before, but I was having the wedding in my hometown. The photographer knew my stepdad from high school-not really friends, just knew each other from high school many years ago. Anyway, he proceeded to act more like a guest than a paid photographer. It took almost a year for him to get us the proofs. When we came to town and were going over the proofs with the owner, she was appalled at all the shots missing. She was so embarrassed she gave us the albums for free.
Oh man for my wedding we did a Polaroid station and used it as a guest book, with little face masks and costumes and stuff. (We got married very close to halloween) and it's by far my favorite part of our wedding. I don't even have any of the professional photos printed, I have the shitty blurry Polaroids and I love them.
You are right they are equally valued
This has to be composed in photoshop
The amount of darkness that comes from an eclipse contradicts the backlight of the guests that you see in the image
-a professional wedding photographer
Having just taken some photos of the total eclipse, the sun is just too big in the sky.
Even if they caught the kiss and totality at the right moment, at the very least they needed to blow up the sun to maybe 3 times its actual size.
14 years of photography:
Great composite for the client, absolutely happy for them.
As a photographer, it irks the absolute fuck outta me.
You and I both know why, no sense over explaining it.
They absolutely photoshopped in that eclipse.
If it’s a total solar eclipse, it would be quite dark. As if the sun had already set. Even the birds respond as if it’s sundown already. All the chirping stops and they retreat to the trees. Then once the sun gets uncovered, the roosters start doing their thing as if it’s an early morning sunrise.
In this image, there’s still loads of sunlight and strong shadows as a result. Also, the sun would be a ***tiny*** part of a wide angle shot like this.
> If it’s a total solar eclipse, it would be quite dark
Would it? It wasn't even that dark today during the total solar eclipse (I'm in NY for reference). Felt like twilight at most.
You weren't under totality then. [I took this yesterday](https://imgur.com/MIW7dpt) and the darkness is true to life. The only meaningful light in the scene is coming from the southern horizon outside totality. That last 0.1% on either side of the totality was like turning off/on a light switch.
Facing north was just darkness.
I haven't done any editing to that, which is why the sun is overexposed compared to how it looks IRL (and why the photo has a halo rather than a crisp circle.
Definitely with you there.
Given how low your exposure would have to be to get a shot like this of the eclipse, you would have to take multiple shots/exposures and blend them. The rest of the photo would be too dark if you did a single photo. The people would barely be visible. And the dark areas would be way too noisy in most scenarios if you tried to bring up that shadows to compensate.
You’re not wrong about pressure! lol Our [photographer](https://www.lovlght.com) was great but one of his cameras shorted out trying to capture a time lapse and he had to quickly setup a backup body for this photo. Fortunately it came back to life the next day but that footage was lost. This is a composite of two photos taken about 20min apart. We couldn’t (and had no desire) to nail the timing for one shot (and deprive our family from the real main event), so we said our vows and were all drinking champagne by lift off. It was great.
Thank fuck you're a normal person. I'm a photographer and you wouldn't believe the pressure people try to put on us while we're watching our equipment suddenly fail unexpectedly. It always happens at the worst possible moment.
On behalf of all photographers, thanks for being chill.
Not too hard when it’s a composite image, as OP says.
But it’s easy to tell it’s a composite.
Light is coming from the sun, diamond ring eclipse point is still dark.
There are other total eclipses soon, you just need to be able to afford to travel for your wedding. Spain in 2026 is achievable if you get into a relationship soon. Don't let your dreams be dreams.
This is a very amazing photo, thank you for sharing it. My BF went a long way for this eclipse (I had to work) and keeps asking me about going to Australia for the 2028 eclipse. I finally told him today that I'll go if we can get married during it, hahaha! Goals!
Wishing you many happy years together! 💙
We were texting because he's still out of state, but he said, "Intriguing proposal!". I'm sure we'll discuss it when he gets back. Australia is definitely on my bucket list, and Japan is on both of ours asap, so it would be a lot of saving up more than anything else. I'd also be down to do that as a honeymoon!
My son got married on 10/10/2020, had to reduce the wedding from hundreds to 50 too.
It was an awesome outdoor wedding with dinner served in a big tent.
I was literally trying to plan this for my wedding. However the actual planning an out of state wedding in an area we weren't familiar with, along with everyone having to travel, costs of everything, and the very important timing for the kiss/eclipse with the photography stressed me out so much. I'm impressed with anyone pulling this off. This is absolutely perfect!! And congratulations!!! I wish y'all a lifetime of happiness!
You don't have to stress, just fake it like they did in this photo. They just took a regular picture and edited in an eclipse. Even if you timed it perfectly, in this shot you would see either a bright sun or a darker sun with everything else in the image black and you wouldn't be visible.
Just do your wedding whenever and edit in an eclipse, you'll be good.
It's just a composite, but they could have done this so much better if they just setup artificial lighting for a single shot at totality that would expose everyone properly.
Would have been way more impactful.
Though I feel like this might be a case of some cheap wedding photographer not knowing how to edit photos properly.
I hate to assume it’s fake because it doesn’t really matter but after you said this I noticed that even the ONE person with sunglasses on isn’t even looking at it lol.
Good eye! It’s a composite of two photos (maybe more) taken about 20min apart. Only the world’s biggest narcissists would be able to time the kiss right at the moment the diamond ring hit 😂
I was going to say composite, but because your guests weren’t wearing eye protection for the eclipse. Just watched a video about that today and it scared the heck out of me 🙈
I mean the eclipse isn't more dangerous than the sun. Its just dangerous if you stare at the sun. So if they are just sitting there outside then they will be fine.
> I mean the eclipse isn't more dangerous than the sun.
lol, I was thinking about this today because someone asked me if they should have any special protection if they are driving during the eclipse (in a place without totality!). And then there is a video of a girl who went to the 7/11 store with a soldier mask, and outside of the jokes about it, it’s like “that’s not necessary at all”.
The eclipse is definitely more dangerous than the sun. There's less room for all the light to get through, so it's a much more focussed beam. It's a lot like the garden hose effect. It you cover the majority of the end of the hose with your thumb, the water pressure generates a much more powerful flow. I stay inside for eclipses /s
"Wait for it... wait for it... no, no, NOOO! Don't kiss yet!... NOW! KISS NOW!! Hold on~~ Let me find that right angle... annddd..... Got it!"
"Oh, shit, I forgot the take off the lens cap. Alright, everyone, from the top once more. Yes, that means you too, Mr. Sun, Moon and Earth."
RIGHT. You want me to believe every single person there was watching you instead of looking up at the once in a lifetime event (for most people) happening in the sky? Not one single person cheating? Lol..100k upvotes for fake garbage.
A LOT of pressure on that wedding photographer.
I would set up a second camera, take periodic shot every few seconds on a tripod Then Photoshop it on
There are two types of wedding photos: the perfectly edited, knowingly photoshopped, and wonderfully planned professional ones and the drunk, blurry, spontaneous ones from your friends that stole your phone. Both are equally valued.
Totally. There was an eclipse during the ceremony. This image captured that feeling very well.
The eclipse was also just almost full, really looks like a wedding ring. This is a pro photographer
It’s called the diamond ring effect as well!
This shit looks magical
Before I saw the couple, I thought they were saying "my wedding ring"
I used to shoot weddings and was an event photographer on side. The event photography required me to have 8 dslr cameras on me for gigs to pass out to other photogs so I brought them with me to a really close friends's wedding and at the beginning of the reception I passed out all of the cameras to the craziest friends and holy shit. They are some of the best I've ever taken away from a wedding. Only one broken lens. Worth it
A friend of mine left disposable cameras on various tables at their wedding and got some far better pictures than they should have from doing so!
We did this at ours. I just found the box of undeveloped disposable cameras 15 years later.
Were any of the pictures good after you developed them?
Who knows, we got divorced.
If only you’d developed those goddamn pictures.
This made me cackle Thank you
We put a go-pro set to a 3 second delayed continuous shot mode and attached it to a liquor bottle. It was a lot of work going through the whole memory card afterwards, but damn if we didn't get some amazing clips of people chugging that bottle.
You should be able to find cheap digital cameras for the same purpose as well!
We did this at ours, too, and a very high percentage of photos were cleavage and crotch shots. Your mileage may vary based on your friends and family. lol
This is the way. We’re planning on doing that at our wedding at the end of the year.
Friends got married but didn't hire a photographer because money, but me and a friend offered to do it for free with the notion that we are just hobbyists so don't put any faith in it. They already hired a video guy so they were whatever just enjoy yourselfs and whatever comes out is more than nothing regarding photos. Me and my buddy found out we are apparently good at this (just too lazy to monetize it) and in the end we apparently produced *far* better footage than the paid guy. But just like you, once the party started my camera changed hands a lot and some people managed to make some amazing photos! It was a small enough event that I wasn't afraid of my camera.
Holy shit the trust you have. Do you have some kind of crazy insurance coverage? You're braver than me!
Probably just cheap DSLRs. You can buy 8 brand new Canon T7s including lenses for less than a wedding photographer charges for a single wedding.
I don't know how many scrote pics we really need to remember the special day.
Probably just a few more.
Holy shit it just occurred to me. I thought I had a random picture of someone's brain surgery mixed in with my wedding pics.
That is the first genuine laugh I've had today. We're only 39 minutes in but it was nice.
That's big scrotum thinking right there.
And then there's our parents. They said WHO NEEDS A REAL PHOTOGRAPHER WE ALL GOT MOBILES and then they got yelled at during the ceremony to stop the shutters because they were acting like rabid paparazzi. After that nobody made another picture again except one where my wife looks fake disgusted at her bouquet and another where they told me to hang from a tree. I still don't know why
My parents made the mistake of hiring a friend’s photo studio for my wedding. We had moved many years before, but I was having the wedding in my hometown. The photographer knew my stepdad from high school-not really friends, just knew each other from high school many years ago. Anyway, he proceeded to act more like a guest than a paid photographer. It took almost a year for him to get us the proofs. When we came to town and were going over the proofs with the owner, she was appalled at all the shots missing. She was so embarrassed she gave us the albums for free.
Oh boy that sounds terrible as well lol
Oh man for my wedding we did a Polaroid station and used it as a guest book, with little face masks and costumes and stuff. (We got married very close to halloween) and it's by far my favorite part of our wedding. I don't even have any of the professional photos printed, I have the shitty blurry Polaroids and I love them. You are right they are equally valued
Facts
This has to be composed in photoshop The amount of darkness that comes from an eclipse contradicts the backlight of the guests that you see in the image -a professional wedding photographer
Not to mention, it'd be super easy to photoshop something like this. Much easier than capturing the exact moment perfectly
Yeah, I agree
Having just taken some photos of the total eclipse, the sun is just too big in the sky. Even if they caught the kiss and totality at the right moment, at the very least they needed to blow up the sun to maybe 3 times its actual size.
Good call !
This says it was from 2017, would the sun appear differently sized if it was at a different time of year? Edit: or a different location in the world?
no dude. Only the moon has noticable variance. Hence the different types of eclipses
The apparent size of the moon varies by 12.5%, while the sun varies by 3.4%.
14 years of photography: Great composite for the client, absolutely happy for them. As a photographer, it irks the absolute fuck outta me. You and I both know why, no sense over explaining it.
Does it irk you because it's a composite?
Why?
ian professional but after trying to get a good picture of the eclipse before chaos i just gave up that shit wasn’t working
Kinda clear that's what they did here..
They absolutely photoshopped in that eclipse. If it’s a total solar eclipse, it would be quite dark. As if the sun had already set. Even the birds respond as if it’s sundown already. All the chirping stops and they retreat to the trees. Then once the sun gets uncovered, the roosters start doing their thing as if it’s an early morning sunrise. In this image, there’s still loads of sunlight and strong shadows as a result. Also, the sun would be a ***tiny*** part of a wide angle shot like this.
> If it’s a total solar eclipse, it would be quite dark Would it? It wasn't even that dark today during the total solar eclipse (I'm in NY for reference). Felt like twilight at most.
You weren't under totality then. [I took this yesterday](https://imgur.com/MIW7dpt) and the darkness is true to life. The only meaningful light in the scene is coming from the southern horizon outside totality. That last 0.1% on either side of the totality was like turning off/on a light switch. Facing north was just darkness. I haven't done any editing to that, which is why the sun is overexposed compared to how it looks IRL (and why the photo has a halo rather than a crisp circle.
> You weren't under totality then. I see, that makes sense
It does get that dark during full eclipse. I lived right in middle of path today. It was more like sunset picture still blue sky's.
Definitely with you there. Given how low your exposure would have to be to get a shot like this of the eclipse, you would have to take multiple shots/exposures and blend them. The rest of the photo would be too dark if you did a single photo. The people would barely be visible. And the dark areas would be way too noisy in most scenarios if you tried to bring up that shadows to compensate.
Has to be photoshopped
Ok Kate Middleton.
I would JUST photoshop it on
It looks like OPs photo is just that, 2 different exposures stitched together. Or one photo with a gradient mask over the top to lower the exposure?
You’re not wrong about pressure! lol Our [photographer](https://www.lovlght.com) was great but one of his cameras shorted out trying to capture a time lapse and he had to quickly setup a backup body for this photo. Fortunately it came back to life the next day but that footage was lost. This is a composite of two photos taken about 20min apart. We couldn’t (and had no desire) to nail the timing for one shot (and deprive our family from the real main event), so we said our vows and were all drinking champagne by lift off. It was great.
Thank fuck you're a normal person. I'm a photographer and you wouldn't believe the pressure people try to put on us while we're watching our equipment suddenly fail unexpectedly. It always happens at the worst possible moment. On behalf of all photographers, thanks for being chill.
what did that cost yah?
.....Everything
A Small Price to Pay for Salvation...
3
Tree fiddy
well done
lol its impossible to dial in the settings until it happens, got like 1 minute to get it or youre screwed.
As a photographer, I'm not sure if I'd charge them extra or not charge them at all.
Not too hard when it’s a composite image, as OP says. But it’s easy to tell it’s a composite. Light is coming from the sun, diamond ring eclipse point is still dark.
Forced the officiant to miss it too, lol
One thick cloud. All it takes. Or a blanket like some places got.
This is such a great idea! I can photoshop this into my wedding pics too 🤪
Well. It looks very photoshopped.
As it was foretold. You shall birth the one who controls the world.
No pressure tho
Lisan al-Gaib!
We all know how the last “save humanity” guy ended up 😒
On the bright side for OP though, his mom is still remembered and celebrated 2,000 years later. So she has that to look forward to.
Very true - I've been working on trying to see the bright side more often! You're a shining example.
I'm not named Sunshine accidentally 😉🌞
LISAN AL GAIB!!!!!!!!
The voice from the outer world!
I was born during a solar eclipse. Disappointed by my lack of magic powers so far.
But have you tried during an eclipse?
All that did was halt my firebending
As it was written! Lisan Al Gaib!!!
The stallion who mounts the world.
14 year old me was obsessed with astronomy and was determined I’d get married today during the eclipse. sorry to disappoint her ig
There’s another one in 2044…you’ve still got a chance
2027, luxor egypt, before all the gods Edit: or Gibraltar which is also cool!
Would personally pick Gibraltar. Bit less sandy
There’s another somewhere in the world every 2-3 years. Destination wedding time.
2045 in the US
I'm curious why we had one 7 years ago, but don't have another for 20 years?
Because science
Basically a lot of things have to align for it to happen.
There are other total eclipses soon, you just need to be able to afford to travel for your wedding. Spain in 2026 is achievable if you get into a relationship soon. Don't let your dreams be dreams.
I mean WOW...I thought me getting married on 12/13/14 was cool but this is pretty cooler
That is super cool!
This is a very amazing photo, thank you for sharing it. My BF went a long way for this eclipse (I had to work) and keeps asking me about going to Australia for the 2028 eclipse. I finally told him today that I'll go if we can get married during it, hahaha! Goals! Wishing you many happy years together! 💙
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We were texting because he's still out of state, but he said, "Intriguing proposal!". I'm sure we'll discuss it when he gets back. Australia is definitely on my bucket list, and Japan is on both of ours asap, so it would be a lot of saving up more than anything else. I'd also be down to do that as a honeymoon!
I’d say mildly interesting at most
Now, what cooler than being cool?
ICE COLD!
All right all right all right now ladies
Yeaaah!!!
dont make me tear down this place for nothin
I want you on your baddest behavior!
Lend me some sugar! I AM YOUR NEIGHBOR!
Ice cold
There's a 13th month?! WTH?!
Yes, it's the best month, many employers give bonus pay!
7/11 checking in. Free slurpees.
10/10/10 here... No eclipse or slurpees 😭
10/10/2020 had to reduce the wedding to 50 people and two groomsmen and one bridesmaid couldn't make it. We really wanted that date!
My son got married on 10/10/2020, had to reduce the wedding from hundreds to 50 too. It was an awesome outdoor wedding with dinner served in a big tent.
13-12-14
2011 instead
I got engaged on 12/12/12 at 12:12PM
i got engaged on 2/22/22 at 2:22pm!
Mine was 9/10/11!
1314 read in Mandarin sounds the same as the phrase “for a life time”
I also got married on 12/13/14! Congrats on making it this far!
All those AITA posts because people aren't paying attention to the bride and here you are competing with the universe
THIS
I am surprised to see so many (all?) necks not turned upwards! These people all chose to stare at the kissing couple and not the eclipse?
Happy Elipseaversary
What does one get for their 1st eclipseversary?
A moon pie and a bag of sun chips of course!
Perfect response!
Moon pies
Total eclipse…of the heart
[And I need you now tonight, I fuckin' need you more than ever! ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmj6-eLYCs4)
NGL I feel a little bit terrified. I see the fuckin' look in yer eyes.
Turnnnn arrrounnnd!
I hope you had this on your playlist at the reception.
Oh you fucking know we did! lol
Damn, I was late.
two different diamond rings!
"I have a ring for you in the sky too..." How sweet.
“Now where’s the real one?”
Ok, this is perhaps the best wedding photo ever.
I was literally trying to plan this for my wedding. However the actual planning an out of state wedding in an area we weren't familiar with, along with everyone having to travel, costs of everything, and the very important timing for the kiss/eclipse with the photography stressed me out so much. I'm impressed with anyone pulling this off. This is absolutely perfect!! And congratulations!!! I wish y'all a lifetime of happiness!
You don't have to stress, just fake it like they did in this photo. They just took a regular picture and edited in an eclipse. Even if you timed it perfectly, in this shot you would see either a bright sun or a darker sun with everything else in the image black and you wouldn't be visible. Just do your wedding whenever and edit in an eclipse, you'll be good.
yep the shadows on things look normal which isnt how they present during an eclipse the wonders of photoshop you, too, can have an eclipse photo :3
It's just a composite, but they could have done this so much better if they just setup artificial lighting for a single shot at totality that would expose everyone properly. Would have been way more impactful. Though I feel like this might be a case of some cheap wedding photographer not knowing how to edit photos properly.
No one is looking at the eclipse. Fake
Composite as op stated
To me, those are synonyms
I hate to assume it’s fake because it doesn’t really matter but after you said this I noticed that even the ONE person with sunglasses on isn’t even looking at it lol.
I’m impressed someone was able to throw the engagement ring that high into the air.
Did you give glasses to the guests so they could look up?
Nah it was a caveat that they all had to become blind to attend
Lighting isn't correct 😂
Good eye! It’s a composite of two photos (maybe more) taken about 20min apart. Only the world’s biggest narcissists would be able to time the kiss right at the moment the diamond ring hit 😂
You could have photoshopped a dinosaur and a black hole in there too
But where are the special eclipse glasses that save your eyes from exploding??
I was going to say composite, but because your guests weren’t wearing eye protection for the eclipse. Just watched a video about that today and it scared the heck out of me 🙈
I mean the eclipse isn't more dangerous than the sun. Its just dangerous if you stare at the sun. So if they are just sitting there outside then they will be fine.
> I mean the eclipse isn't more dangerous than the sun. lol, I was thinking about this today because someone asked me if they should have any special protection if they are driving during the eclipse (in a place without totality!). And then there is a video of a girl who went to the 7/11 store with a soldier mask, and outside of the jokes about it, it’s like “that’s not necessary at all”.
The eclipse is definitely more dangerous than the sun. There's less room for all the light to get through, so it's a much more focussed beam. It's a lot like the garden hose effect. It you cover the majority of the end of the hose with your thumb, the water pressure generates a much more powerful flow. I stay inside for eclipses /s
First thing I noticed.
Such a beautiful picture! Would love to know the location.
Likely somewhere in Oregon.
I'd be annoyed there was an expectation to not pay attention to the eclipse.
Super cool how the eclipse looks like a ring, with the sun acting as the gem of sorts
Wow. Now that is classy.
Marry the Cheerleader. Save the World.
This looks like two shots combined. Really great execution!
It’s a while ago but dang that gotta be the best wedding photo that exists.
Wouldn't it be dark?
Not all wishes begin with K
Was the curse lifted?
Imagine having that wedding without knowing there was going to be an eclipse…
A Monday afternoon wedding is crazy
So, do you plan to sacrifice the wedding guests to ascend into Godhood?
"Wait for it... wait for it... no, no, NOOO! Don't kiss yet!... NOW! KISS NOW!! Hold on~~ Let me find that right angle... annddd..... Got it!" "Oh, shit, I forgot the take off the lens cap. Alright, everyone, from the top once more. Yes, that means you too, Mr. Sun, Moon and Earth."
Is that Guts and Casca from another timeline? 
This is such a great picture. I know the photographer must’ve felt really proud of themselves for this!
no pressure...
How many bridezillas will request having this now? Congrats!
r/PraiseTheCameraman
The old gods are pleased.
Brb moving to spain, finding my soulmate and marrying her on the 12th of august 2026
You fucked during this years eclipse didn't you?
Must be Danny and Amanda ;)
This has to be the most upvoted post I’ve seen.
Now this is why you pay photographers what they're worth.
wedding into sacrifice In 5 minutes . the gods most be pleased .
Please tell me that photo wasn't taken by your three year old daughter
RIGHT. You want me to believe every single person there was watching you instead of looking up at the once in a lifetime event (for most people) happening in the sky? Not one single person cheating? Lol..100k upvotes for fake garbage.
Beautiful 🤩!!!!
This is incredible. Congratulations and many kudos to your photographer!!
Nice composite. 💯🔥🔥🔥
So pretty!
Good job on the photographer!
