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Jun 26
2009

Dad: A Wedding Photographer from the 80′s

by Austin

in For Photographers

As most of you may not know, I (Austin) didn’t grow up with my birth father. We’ve been playing catch up the last 6 or so years, and it’s a trip to find out how much we have in common!

When Dara and I got into wedding photography, I was suprised to find out that my dad had been a wedding photographer for 10 years!! How I missed that detail before, I don’t know.

Anyway, I thought it would be cool to interview him a few months ago when he came down to visit. It is pretty long, and not the greatest quality for the web, but it’s pretty hilarious at points, especially if you are a photographer yourself. Enjoy!

Interview: Dad: Wedding Photographer from the 80′s from austin curtis on Vimeo.

Here’s an interview with my dad – who worked as a wedding photographer for 10 years up in Canada. Like father, like son – well, almost!


    • Amanda

      OMG THAT IS FREAKIN HILARIOUS – I stumbled on your site today looking for inspirations for new ring shot ideas through like a random google search and I watched the whole video and I almost peed my pants. Five years ago I was just getting started and I worked as an assistant for a wedding photographer who shot the hasselblads with no auto focus and a flash on a bracket that looked like a car headlight attached to an erector set. The battery weighed like 18 pounds. She knew nothing about real photography – nothing – didn’t know about reciprocity, nothing. All she knew was if it was sunny it was F16 put the sun behind the people and flash the hell out of it. It was like a wedding party at a CSI crime scene. POP POP POP sooooooo true. I remember the first time I saw her set up the shot with the best man and the groom with the watch – (WHICH SHE CARRIED WITH HER IN HER CAMERA BAG) – the whole shot was so dripping with cheese and corny-ness I almost through up. I could not believe there were still people like that around shooting in 2004 and people were still hiring those people.
      Everything your dad said was 100% true – and he was even in Canada – this woman was well within the lower 48 – I can’t believe that they did things EXACTLY the same. Thank you so much for posting this – work at the studio came to a dead halt today because I was laughing with tears rolling out and everyone crowded around my screen with drinks and snacks for 30 minutes to watch this.
      Give your Dad a big slap on the back and cold beer from all of us – he deserves it for making it through 10 years of hard work. :-D

    • Zen

      Well son, you have done very well. Perhaps if I had started out in Santa Barbara, I also could have been a raging success. As it was, my wedding photo career helped me to earn a small living. Living in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan at the time probably didn’t help. Or on the other hand, perhaps you just had more raw talent than I could ever muster. Hmmm. Nah.

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