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Show THE SENTINEL Thursday, Feb. 23,1 984 - Page 8 Choosing a photographer Do you take this photographer To make pictures you cherish, Portraying your love As long as you live? When the couple says "I do" to the selection of a photographer for their wedding, there must be no doubts that the assignment turn out perfectly. "How does a bride to be" we d asked a professional wedding photographer, "choose a photographer to record highly-regarde- one of the most important days in her life?" "Very carefully!" he advised. Citing that he was in the unique position of doing weddings while operating a processing lab where local amateur photographers brought wedding pictures to be developed and printed, he pointed out that some $200 million is spent for wedding photographs during a typical year. can't "Amateur picture-taker- s resist the opportunity to 'shoot weddings' even when they don't know how!" "We understand that it is tempting for a bride to try to save money by agreeing quickly when a 'photographer' friend offers to shoot the wedding as 'a gift' or at a bargain rate." have the the right "Few lighting cameras, itaxts. at Ceneh FLOWER SHOP equipment, backups for everything . . . and tested professional films used by pros." "In the lab, I have seen a lot of amateur wedding pictures guaranteed to disappoint. Blame for disasters is laid to equipment failure or lab error." "From experience, I judge that the real problem is human error. These people use automated cameras and are shooting under pressure. For 'special effects' they system. try to override the built-iThe result is a lot of missing memories in the album." "Those of us in business for ourselves know that any piece of equpment can fail, so we always n specializing in Wedding Flowers provide backup equipment." 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"By talking together, he is better able to personalize his pictures . . . the mistys, multiple exposures . . . as well as to anticipate color problems such as the bride's face turning pale or becoming flushed under stress. A perfect complexion and sparkling eyes challenges him to position his camera for dewey y closeups, while a disco-typ- e bride demands the blur of moving color and holiday atmosphere of the event." Wedding activities and share them during the rehearsal dinner. Bring your Polaroid camera to the shower and have one of your bridesmaids take a picture of you opening each gift and thanking each one-thir- ll photographers generally sell "packages" containing time, expertise, equipment, supplies, processing, proofs and a specified number of prints. Custom packages are offered with a minimum of perhaps 20 8" x -- imcaratN of diamonds I III & v $295! J JJA happy-go-luck- dxisd, 17 N. Main wedding. 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