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    19. Sometimes the newly-weds are up to such things that I hardly manage to react (See photo 19). 1001st means of transporting the brides. Camera Nikon F 5. Camera lens Nikkor 20/2.8. Film Kodak Portra 100 ASA. Exposure 1/30 sec. Aperture 8,5.
This couple thought out a contest. The participants had to manage to bend down and lift a match box with their teeth from the ground without bending the knees. Try to guess who won a bottle of champagne. I didn’t have time to shoot this moment because the harmonious duet moved too fast. In a moment I saw the back of the bridegroom and in another second the bride stood on her feet with the match box in her hands.

 

   To shoot a wedding is half the work. This pleasant process is followed by the less pleasant one. It is postprocessing. Sometimes the photographer performs it. Sometimes the client takes raw files and prints them himself. Sometimes specially trained men transform the shooting into a wedding album for extra charge. This is not a simple album with pasteboard pages and angle pieces for photos. This is a work of design art. You’ll see drawn vignettes with Cupids, sights of native city, collages of several files combined into one photograph. This is a serious work that costs much money. At the same time such albums are recherché. For example, I present photographs in the following way: I thoroughly retouch the best 100 shots and save them on a disk. If the client persists on it, I save on the disk the rest unprocessed files. Making albums is the work for specialists.
The author tenders sincere thanks to his clients for permission to publish these shots.