Wedding Photographer Risks Life to Get The Perfect Shot
Jul 1, 2015
Allen Mowery
Allen Mowery is a Nationally-published Commercial & Editorial Photographer with over 20 years of experience. He has shot for major brands as well small clients. When not shooting client work or chasing overgrown wildlife from his yard, he loves to capture the stories of the people and culture around him.
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Some people have no sense. Or too much courage. Or something. A video posted by the Singapore Reckless Drivers Community (apparently it’s a real problem over there) shows a photographer hanging his body halfway out a car window while going down the highway. According to SRDC, the guy is a wedding photographer and was attempting to get the perfect shot of the wedding party in the vehicle next to him.
Sure, we’ve all done stupid stuff to get a good image…like the time a friend and I (with a broken foot) kinda borrowed a leaky canoe with no paddle to go exploring a crocodile-infested lagoon at night in hopes of getting some great moonlit photos of the beasts. What you do in your own time is your business.
But, in a case like this, what would be the outcome were the photographer to be injured or killed? What happens to the images and all the memories from the clients’ special day?
At what point do the risks of “getting the shot” outweigh common sense and good business practices?
Allen Mowery
Allen Mowery is a Nationally-published Commercial & Editorial Photographer with over 20 years of experience. He has shot for major brands as well small clients. When not shooting client work or chasing overgrown wildlife from his yard, he loves to capture the stories of the people and culture around him.
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14 responses to “Wedding Photographer Risks Life to Get The Perfect Shot”
That 2 feet probably made all the difference
Something is wrong with us. Andy Hanemann
I guess it’s Keda Z
In Singapore their cars are right hand drive meaning he was the passenger and someone else was driving the car. You can see they are driving on the opposite side of the road as we do in the US.
Very true, but with that much torso outside the window, any sudden movements from the person who IS driving could result in serious injury.
Well, then I guess the question is… how much do you trust your driver? I don’t think he was endangering anyone but himself, and that’s fair game.
Where is the shot?
And they did it on train tracks! Zut alors!
In Singlish : ” Oi! Get a drone lah! “
Been there done that…. Anything for my brides.
In Russia, since 50% of photographers and videographers so working.
It used to be popular with videographers here in Romania also :)
That’s either Raymond Phang, or another photographer trying to emulate his signature car look. Example around 1/4 of the way down this page: http://www.raymondphang.com/blog/2014/wedding-day-celebration-of-ceying-wendy-by-raymond-phang/
Gunnar Loveland a day in the life haha