Mooney doesn’t rate photographers by Alan Murphy
Thursday, Nov 8th, 2007 in The IPWS Blog by Alan Murphy | 3 Comments
During a recent broadcast RTE 1′s Derek Mooney made a rather throw away remark about wedding photographers. (Slide the timer across to 26:30 to hear the offending remark and the lead up) Mooney’s argument was that all brides should simply collect images from guests – after all the mobile phone pictures “are fantastic – Get rid of the photographer altogether!!”
While I have no argument with couples choosing not to employ a professional photographer for a presenter on the National airwaves to suggest that images from guests using disposal cameras and camera phones is comparable to using a professional photographer is wrong – if Derek wants to see real images I suggest he look at the websites of photographers listed in our directory.
3 Comments:
“Mooney doesn’t rate photographers”
Have you ever heard of anyone who rates Mooney?
Mooney is an oaf. I have yet to hear a discussion he couldn’t trivialise with an inane remark or a contributer he couldn’t flummox with an idiotic question. I heard the remark and it annoyed me for 10 seconds until i remembered who said it.
I don’t see why anyone should be upset by remarks made by an idiot… It’s not like he has any credibility is it?