From the course: Learning Wedding Photography
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Why shoot weddings?
So here I want to bring up the question why photograph weddings? It's an important question to answer. I want to answer it myself by telling you a little bit of my story because I think it might give you insight into how you can formulate your own answer to that question. Well, for me, I'm a photographer and a teacher, and I photograph a lot of different things. If I had a chance of photographs say a world- class surfer like this, were world champions are for, or maybe I photograph the family down at a beach or a world-famous musician. I also like taking family pictures like taking pictures of my daughter Annika here, so I photograph many different things. Well, how do weddings fit into all of this? Well, in a sense, I'm a bit of the accidental wedding photographer. I didn't set out to shoot 30 or 50 weddings a year and to be a wedding photographer; rather situations like this came out. I had a camera and my brother said, "Chris, will you photograph my wedding?" Now he's one of the…
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