I'm all for being creative and doing fun photos, but this is a poor idea. This photog must be one heckuva talker to convince a bride and her bridesmaids in their clean and expensive outfits to pose like this.

2/18/2009 12:08:08 PM

im so tempted to email the photog the link to this thread

2/18/2009 12:25:58 PM

it musta been the end of the day and they were ready to strip down.

2/18/2009 12:27:35 PM

^^^I don't even know what the point of that pose/whatever was supposed to be...

2/18/2009 12:35:11 PM

Dammit... of course this would have to happen on my wedding day..."

2/18/2009 1:03:33 PM

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"im so tempted to email the photog the link to this thread"

Ahaha, awesome idea. I would endorse that decision.

2/18/2009 1:04:08 PM

a user pm'd me that they had already tried and his email is "over quota"

2/18/2009 1:05:49 PM

ahahahaa

marko...

2/18/2009 1:11:40 PM

Go figure he doesn't have an in-site contact form.

2/18/2009 1:14:40 PM

well, even if the guy read this thread, he'd probably act like Kiwi and think to himself

"Hey, fuck those guys. My photography is awesome. Everyone is just a hater."

It's like those morons that go on American Idol, shit it up, and then blame Simon when they get called the fuck out.

2/18/2009 1:54:02 PM

Except I actually take in constructive criticism. But yeah YOU TOOTALLY PEGGED ME

2/18/2009 3:52:16 PM

lol

2/18/2009 3:53:17 PM

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"TOTALLY PREGGED ME"

2/18/2009 3:59:41 PM

Quote :

"Except I actually take in constructive criticism. But yeah YOU TOOTALLY PEGGED ME "

Yup, in one ear and directly out the other.

2/18/2009 5:03:55 PM

lol marko

2/18/2009 6:21:06 PM

there is no amount of money that would make me peg kiwi

2/18/2009 6:31:45 PM

no matter how much criticism you "take in",

you will always take shitty photos.

until you get tired of it and decide to be "artistic" in another form

2/18/2009 6:38:15 PM

wow...kind of crazy seeing Brett Arthur pop up here....he is my cousin's long time boyfriend and has done some work my sister and brother-in-law.


I'll recommend him too....guy knows what he is doing.

2/18/2009 6:46:30 PM

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"a user pm'd me that they had already tried and his email is "over quota""

Yeah I tried emailing him just a general inquiry question and same thing. Sounds like a legit guy

2/19/2009 9:57:36 PM

I asked the friend who used this guy if she had any contact info for him. She gave me a different email address from the one his lists but it bounced back to me when I emailed it. Maybe the guy doesn't exist anymore. I hope he wasn't one of these douchebags to take a wedding contract and then bounce out of town

2/21/2009 9:49:04 PM

Here's a new one for you guys to look at. These are from a friend who got married last week.









http://hilmersonphotography.com/blog/

3/12/2009 2:20:08 AM

i like the style. not your typical wedding photography, so that's a plus. the first pic has a lot of digital noise, i guess that's the first negative i see. if he wanted it to be grainy like that on purpose then that's cool, i guess. he's using a nice canon, so there's no reason he can't correct that.

[Edited on March 12, 2009 at 2:30 AM. Reason : eos-1ds markIII]

3/12/2009 2:29:21 AM

better. but the guy looks pretty douchey in his single portrait. maybe he just looks douchey all the time though. his nose is weird.

[Edited on March 12, 2009 at 2:33 AM. Reason : actually i am not digging the fish eye lens on every single picture. making me dizzy. ]

3/12/2009 2:31:57 AM

^ Yeah, the photographer seems to have a hard on for the blur effect. But I think this is the same guy who did their engagement photos and those were a lot better from what I remember. I wish I could find those. Nowhere near as much blur. It's almost like he discovered a new "trick" and went into overload with it.

3/12/2009 2:34:27 AM

I like that dude's suit.

3/12/2009 9:28:25 AM

the girl looks about 10 years older in the last pic, maybe its the nose scrunch

3/12/2009 9:29:50 AM

marko made my day with that last post.

3/12/2009 10:37:31 AM

At least their children will end up with average sized ears (if there is a balance of the parents).

Dig the purp shirt too

why would you blur that wickedly detailed door/transom?

[Edited on March 12, 2009 at 10:48 AM. Reason : +]

3/12/2009 10:43:20 AM

http://hilmersonphotography.com/blog/
Every photo has a blur in it somewhere. Either this photographer likes the blur style or he hasn't figured out how to adjust the settings on the camera.

[Edited on March 12, 2009 at 11:04 AM. Reason : []]

3/12/2009 11:03:34 AM

^^and gigantic chins

3/12/2009 11:07:38 AM

^^tiltshift/lensbaby ftw. honestly i think it i a good gimmick style but not something to be overdone.

3/12/2009 11:25:54 AM

i was about to say the same thing Randy. i like the overall appearance of this shots but i think it would get really old and tired.

i'd like to see more range of his skills unless the couple requested their pictures to have that really old feel to them

i do like the tilt shift focus of the grooms portrait though

3/12/2009 11:48:49 AM

3/12/2009 12:14:38 PM

^ x 5 lol you're right about the other photos on his site.



Why even blur this one?



or this one?

3/12/2009 9:16:04 PM

so apparently the bride requested that most of her pictures use tilt shift. why would someone request that???????

3/16/2009 10:08:31 PM

because they are fucking stupid, perhaps?

3/17/2009 12:46:53 AM

knowing this girl, that's a good possibility

3/17/2009 1:00:08 AM

Apparently she hired two separate photographers. She must have had serious dough for this wedding

From the other guy:







I think I like these more than the first guy.

3/20/2009 10:23:57 AM

This is a fucking joke.

3/20/2009 10:27:59 AM

^ I can take Myspace tilt shots too

3/20/2009 10:36:58 AM

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"Why even blur this one?"

because HE CAN DAMMIT!

never before have the depths of shitty 'professional' photography been plumbed (at least from what horrors i've experienced)....

what did they pay these guys with? bottle caps?

the last 2 'pros' at least have a little bit of talent but they try to hid it as hard as possible....

oh holy fuck, i never thought i would even think this but kiwi could do better than about 1/2 the pictures in this thread....

3/20/2009 10:47:06 AM

this thread is awesome

3/20/2009 10:54:15 AM

^^ She paid each photographer $2500

3/20/2009 10:55:23 AM

Gracious. Five grand for pictures.

3/20/2009 11:00:36 AM

2500....

for what exactly?

334 disposable cameras?

lunch?

what the fuck, you can get several beater cars for that much, park them on railroad tracks and wait for a better train wreck than the garbage on here....

3/20/2009 11:00:50 AM

^ lol.

She just sent me a link to more shots.











A lot of them seem kind of off centered.

http://hilmersonphotography.com/blog/

3/22/2009 5:54:30 AM

As to what the intent was for above photographs:
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

3/22/2009 6:13:40 AM

they guy on page one getting married in rainbows is pretty amusing.

3/22/2009 8:04:15 AM

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"He could have at least photoshopped the shiny face too."

or the BRUISE on her arm.. jesus fuck, edit that shit!

and you guys are missing some GOLD on his reviews page

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"Ron, Thank you so much for everything you have done for our wedding! The pictures are beautiful. I will give your name to everyone I run into who is planning a wedding. Your services personality and experience made our decision easy and we have no regrets. Thanks Again! Alex and Justin Fitzgerald"

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"Ron, The photos are gorgeous. Now I have to figure out what to order. It's going to be hard. I love them all."

i dont know much about photography, nothing, in fact and i can even tell his photos are shit...

3/22/2009 9:47:05 AM

^ It'd be one thing if his services were cheap but he charges a lot on top of everything. If you're charging over $500 for photos you better be photoshopping that shit.

3/22/2009 9:55:29 AM