Great Tips for Wedding photography by Sean Lamb
So your friend has asked you to take the pictures at his wedding because after all the other expenses, they cannot afford a wedding photography professional but want some good pictures. After feeling flattered that they think you good enough to record their most important day, the worries start to happen.
You will need to talk to the couple to find out what are the most important shots they want to put into their album, try to keep them to a minimum so that you don’t have too much pressure on yourself. As you probably won’t know the layouts, get the addresses of the wedding and reception venues so that you can go and reconnoitre them, preferably at the same time as the wedding so that you will know where the sun will be. Look for some good backgrounds and especially a really nice place where you could take some intimate picture of the couple.
On the day, play it like a boy scout and ‘Be Prepared’. Your batteries must be fully charged and you have to have a couple of spare sets handy for all of your equipment. Work out how many rolls of film you need and then add six more rolls. Remember that you need at least two different speeds of film. Those shooting with digital camera should allow for a minimum of two 2 gig memory cards and then add another because you will be shooting at maximum resolution for top print quality. If you know the difference, try to shoot RAW rather than JPEG as you will have a greater flexibility after the event.
Wedding photography is much more than the happy couple, many family and friends come together for the occasion so you must speak to the couple to ascertain who are the most important people to be included in the pictures. The group shot contains everybody and there are two ways to do it. First is to start with the couple and then add to them, the second and the preferable one is to get everybody together do the shots and then start discarding people until you end up with the couple who may not be able to smile at the end of it. Remember to shoot the children as soon as possible, whilst their clothes are still in pristine condition and they are not bored.
Just because you have checked out the scene, don’t forget to look through the viewfinder and make sure there is nothing untoward, like trees or posts that will detract from the picture before taking the first shot. You may have chosen a particularly pleasing background but it is worth doing a couple of extra shots with a wiser aperture that will blur the back drop and make the people stand out.
As you will probably be using fill-in flash, spectacle wearers can pose a problem with the reflections. Although remove the offending items may be the easy solution, it may make them hard to recognise in the photograph. One solution is to get them to move their head slightly, better towards the couple as looking away may indicate boredom.
When it comes to the reception it will probably be indoors so you will have to use flash all the time. To avoid harsh shadows you can bounce it off the ceiling, if it’s not too high or has a dark colour. Another way is to put thin tissue paper over the front of the flash which will diffuse the light but practice before you attend the wedding.
Finally get your films processed as soon as possible or make sure you down load all the pictures to your hard drive as soon as possible. You may wish to do a quick run through and delete the really bad ones and put to one side those that might be saved with a little photo shop action and burn a selection of the best onto a cd to present to the happy couple. Now you have the taste, maybe you could think of turning a wedding photography pro !
Before you organise your wedding nuptuals, check Sean Lambs’ wedding photography tips. There are a whole lot more ideas as well as wedding photography for anybody tying the knot.
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