The Royals, by Hugo Burnand

ShepsMom

I thought i would post it here, cause i didn't see anyone mentioning wedding of the century LOL.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382178/Royal-Wedding-pictures-The-official-Royal-Wedding-album-suggests-Kate-Williams-future-happier-Charles-Dianas.html

chrisjohnson

Yes, I was wondering what our experts would be thinking. I hear he took a team of 5 along, spare equipment for the spares. A few weeks preparation, rehearsals on-site with models. Dread to think what he charged. I doubt he will be short of work for a few years.

Matthew Saville

The price on a job line this could go both ways. True, you could probably charge a quarter-million and they wouldn't bat an eye, or at least 50-100K. (I guess I'm talking in USD though...)

On the other hand, imagine the LIFETIME of new work you would score, just by saying that you photographed the royal wedding. One might argue that photographing this type of event completely free-of-charge would be a good move.

But then again, to shoot it for free would require a huge investment on the part of the photographer, which would require that photographer to ALREADY be very well established. In which case they wouldn't necessarily need to offer their services for free, not in order to secure the job in the first place, NOR in an effort to score later success. So, we're back to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. ;-)

Either way, I will NOT participate in any "knocking" or criticizing of the images, that's for darn sure, just considering how INSANELY high-pressure a situation like this would be. I think in a situation like this, clean, simple, and formal is the way to go.

=Matt=

chrisjohnson

Yes, there is a popular myth in UK that royals never pay for anything. The kudos of being the official photographer at an event like this would set you up for life.

Hugo did a slick job imo, although I hope they had a guy behind the scenes for the "real" family photos. I wonder who that was?

divamum

Lends new meaning to the expression, "formals"

Must confess I do like all the reds - the dress uniform looks great in with all the rest!

ETA: According to his bio he's been a longstanding Tatler photographer so will have likely been regularly working in aristocratic society circles, although obviously not as high-profile as a direct-line-to-the-throne Royal wedding.

Stuart-M

The formal shots are actually very clever, the way that they are both asymmetric and ordered at the same time, the comparison to his mother & father's wedding shots is quite striking!

ShepsMom

I find their image much more visually appealing vs. the parents wedding. It has a beautiful light and overall glow to the image. The other one, while photographer tried to catch spontaneous moment, it looks somewhat odd, like D's veil is all bundled up to the left creating a mess, and just looking weird, they should have posted a comparable image if anything.

Kinkajou

Reminds me of the dutch school of painting

Agnieszka

The kids crack me up Nice to see somebody else having troubles making all the kids look into the camera at the same time

Can I point out one thing? Many photographers don't care about it, and I see it done wrong allll the time. See how straight the walls are in the background?? That's perfection!

As for the first pic ... it kinda annoys me that her dress isn't perfectly laying on the floor ... would be an easy fix in photoshop ... I don't know ... definitely bugs me, call me crazy + that leaning boy is kinda throwing me off balance, but ... I guess it's a kid

Thanks for sharing the link!

Shima

Did you guys see the post by the Big Picture yet?
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/04/the_royal_wedding.html

Agnieszka

Shima wrote: »

Did you guys see the post by the Big Picture yet?
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/04/the_royal_wedding.html

How pretty, love the entire set, what a great eye for the perfect moment! ... and ... on a side note ... holy smokes is that ring shot in focus, I bet the photographer had to be miles away when he took it .... Holy sharpness!