I like to hit that priest in the face.

[ChickenGuy]

No one would be defending the photographers if they had been getting behind the mayor, governor, or president making a speech. The officiating of a ceremony is a formal event, like a commencement address, a political speech, or a press conference.

Anyone moving around just behind the speaker is by definition upstaging the main event. Anyone in the photography profession oblivious of that relationship just doesn't have the smarts to be doing his profession.

I repeat -- no one is being forced to comply with or observe religious ritual -- but when the couple booked a religious ceremony, it behooved them to give it the respect due it, or not invoke it.

It is not dissimilar to asking a color guard to present colors at a public event and then not affording them the respect due to their role. The symbolic and ceremonial are mutually observed ritual elements. Use them or not, but don't request that they become meaningless just because they aren't catered to the whims of the dispassionate.

I was reminded of the Canadian Guards' ceremonial goat.

....who I saw on TV during William & Kate's offical royal visit but then I imagined him causing chaos by taking a charge at Prince William.

It came into my mind when you said the combined phrases 'behooved' and 'upstaging the main event' and 'symbolic and ceremonial' and 'not affording them the respect due to their role'.

The collar with the split tie in the front is associated with Reformed/Presbyterian/Scottish orders, maybe not Anglican, but certainly not Catholic.

He did indeed in his manner and appearance remind me of the type of Northern Ireland protestant firebrand minister who are very strict and Presbyterian in their approach (and share a lot of religious/cultural links with parts of Scotland)

 

[Telstra]

Don't be daft. I meant exactly what was going on in the wedding. You can't have a photographer and a videographer on the dais moving around behind the speaker.

It was as obtrusive as it is obvious.

Why bother hiring them to capture the wedding ?

If you want the camera on the other side, all you can see for the whole ceremony are the backs of the bride and groom.They will sue you for not capturing the bride and groom's faces !!!

 

[gsdx]

Why bother hiring them to capture the wedding ?

If you want the camera on the other side, all you can see for the whole ceremony are the backs of the bride and groom.They will sue you for not capturing the bride and groom's faces !!!

Why don't you just give it up? Photographers have been photographing weddings for decades and decades without standing beside the officiate. There are boundaries during a wedding ceremony, and that photographer and videographer crossed them, and any professional photographer will tell you so.

The next wedding you photograph, go stand beside the priest and see what happens. Seriously, I can't figure out where you're coming from.

 

[Telstra]

Why don't you just give it up? Photographers have been photographing weddings for decades and decades without standing beside the officiate. There are boundaries during a wedding ceremony, and that photographer and videographer crossed them, and any professional photographer will tell you so.

The next wedding you photograph, go stand beside the priest and see what happens. Seriously, I can't figure out where you're coming from.

I am talking about that particular wedding in the video with that priest.
He is wrong full stop !!!

I can't see that particular photographer did anything wrong at all.

 

[Alnitak]

I'm going to get married in a little booth so photographers can't get in there

 

[Telstra]

I'm going to get married in a little booth so photographers can't get in there

You think photographers want to take photos for free ?

 

[Pcp3t3]

Temper temper.

 

[ravenstar]

Its hard to argue with some jubbers who thinks like that priest.
He alone can talk for god.

The irony of you saying it's hard to argue with people who think they're right is so delicious it has to be fattening Telly. You've not listened to a damn thing anyone in this thread has said beyond those who agree with you and your opinion on the video. You're not the slightest bit interested in discussion the situation, just reinforcing your own opinion and that's it.

 

[Telstra]

The irony of you saying it's hard to argue with people who think they're right is so delicious it has to be fattening Telly. You've not listened to a damn thing anyone in this thread has said beyond those who agree with you and your opinion on the video. You're not the slightest bit interested in discussion the situation, just reinforcing your own opinion and that's it.

Yes i did.
Their opinions are like that grumpy priest. They should be wedding celebrants and see how they go.

 

[Telstra]

I'll just let the professional photographers do the talking as grumpy jub members always be grumpy:

 

[gsdx]

I'll just let the professional photographers do the talking as grumpy jub members always be grumpy:

'Ranty McRanterson'. Very reliable source.

Go to 1:10 in your video. The idiot couldn't tell if he was 'motor shooting'. That's the 'CLICK CLICK CLICK' you could hear just before the priest stopped. And Mr. Ranty couldn't hear that? It's exactly what I told you to listen for. BUT you didn't listen to Mr. Ranty when he said photographers shouldn't do that.

Even when you think you're proving your case, you're proving ours. THE PHOTOGRAPHER WAS WRONG, and you just proved it for us.

 

[Alnitak]

You think photographers want to take photos for free ?

Of me?

Hell yes dontchaknow

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

I'll just let the professional photographers do the talking as grumpy jub members always be grumpy.

 

[Telstra]

Um, not the slightest chance that your professional photographer (Jared Polin) who is Jewish, might have a very different concept of what is a sacred space or an altar than a Christian priest/rector might?

Kind of relevant to the whole argument of your tack as a militant anti-religionist versus just normal person's respect for other people's rituals, huh?

Being Jewish can't comment on this priest's behavior?
I don't even know he is Jewish. Are you stalking him now ?

 

[Telstra]

'Ranty McRanterson'. Very reliable source.

Go to 1:10 in your video. The idiot couldn't tell if he was 'motor shooting'. That's the 'CLICK CLICK CLICK' you could hear just before the priest stopped. And Mr. Ranty couldn't hear that? It's exactly what I told you to listen for. BUT you didn't listen to Mr. Ranty when he said photographers shouldn't do that.

Even when you think you're proving your case, you're proving ours. THE PHOTOGRAPHER WAS WRONG, and you just proved it for us.

Please do what you have preached:

" ....I'm so done with this. It's not worth my time or effort.
And please don't respond to this. "

 

[gsdx]

Please do what you have preached:

" ....I'm so done with this. It's not worth my time or effort.
And please don't respond to this. "

I was hoping to educate you even a little bit, to help you to prevent you from making yourself resemble your avatar. You don't want to learn.

Good enough.

Oh, and just because I actually know what I'm talking about doesn't make me grumpy.

 

[Telstra]

I was hoping to educate you even a little bit, to help you to prevent you from making yourself resemble your avatar. You don't want to learn.

Good enough.

Oh, and just because I actually know what I'm talking about doesn't make me grumpy.

Thankyou kindly.

 

[Telstra]

One of you is that priest by any chance?
Keep defending him even tho he was wrong yelling at the photographer during the ceremony.


"Is a wedding service owned by the priest or is he there as a paid contractor.
Paid for his time.

In the end the service about the lucky couple, everyone else is second in importance. He destroyed the moment for them.

The priest caused an uncomfortable feeling for the lucky couple. That was not his job.
The state should be accessing his suitability to retain his license. Personal if I was the couple I would be hounding the authorities to have him kicked out. "

 

[Kulindahr]

One of you is that priest by any chance?
Keep defending him even tho he was wrong yelling at the photographer during the ceremony.


"Is a wedding service owned by the priest or is he there as a paid contractor.
Paid for his time.

In the end the service about the lucky couple, everyone else is second in importance. He destroyed the moment for them.

The priest caused an uncomfortable feeling for the lucky couple. That was not his job.
The state should be accessing his suitability to retain his license. Personal if I was the couple I would be hounding the authorities to have him kicked out. "

What sort of dictatorship do you imagine this took place in??? Licenses for priests???

No priest is a "paid contractor". The couple wanted a religious ceremony, and that means they put the priest in charge.

 

[Telstra]

What sort of dictatorship do you imagine this took place in??? Licenses for priests???

No priest is a "paid contractor". The couple wanted a religious ceremony, and that means they put the priest in charge.

Orthodox priests got paid by paying to their church.
I'm sure that priest got paid indirectly some how like he owns a church ??