So your first wedding photo coverage is upon you. You are surely feeling the jitters, whether you're doing this on the side or as a full time events photographer. In order to make this first time a fantastic start for your wedding photography career, follow these simple tips.
Prepare all your gear. It's true that the excellence of wedding photos you would produce will vary on numerous factors, most important of which is your ability as a photographer. But without sufficient memory cards, fully charged batteries, and the right lenses, your skill will go to waste for the day and your camera would never serve its purpose well. So check, and check again, all your photographic equipment before heading out. Make sure you have emptied your memory cards and brought enough of them to cover the event; charge your batteries; ready all the lenses you need; and do some test shots with your camera.
Hire an assistant shooter for this coverage, and get a second camera body too. Having an assistant photographer to shoot alongside you will allow you to cover more ground and come up with more different shots to choose from later on. To work well together, set up a work plan indicating who shoots what parts and what types of shots are expected. This would also minimise photos from the same angle from two different photographers. It also pays to have two camera bodies where you could use two different lenses (a wide angle on one and a telephoto on another) in order to avoid having to change in the middle of all the action.
Bend down, and pay attention to the details. Take as many different angles as you could, because it's only when everything is finished and you're sitting in your office looking through the photos that you can appreciate how much simpler it is to work with many photos than with just a handful. Take close-ups, bird's eye view shots, macro shots, and shoot from the hip as well as down low.
Lastly, shoot RAW. Each Wedding Photographer should never debate on the utility of the RAW format. You are going to print your photos, so might as well take as much detail as you could in each shot. This is something your camera's RAW shooting functionality will easily cover. Bridal Photography is serious business, and you cannot afford to work on compressed JPEGs alone.
Prepare all your gear. It's true that the excellence of wedding photos you would produce will vary on numerous factors, most important of which is your ability as a photographer. But without sufficient memory cards, fully charged batteries, and the right lenses, your skill will go to waste for the day and your camera would never serve its purpose well. So check, and check again, all your photographic equipment before heading out. Make sure you have emptied your memory cards and brought enough of them to cover the event; charge your batteries; ready all the lenses you need; and do some test shots with your camera.
Hire an assistant shooter for this coverage, and get a second camera body too. Having an assistant photographer to shoot alongside you will allow you to cover more ground and come up with more different shots to choose from later on. To work well together, set up a work plan indicating who shoots what parts and what types of shots are expected. This would also minimise photos from the same angle from two different photographers. It also pays to have two camera bodies where you could use two different lenses (a wide angle on one and a telephoto on another) in order to avoid having to change in the middle of all the action.
Bend down, and pay attention to the details. Take as many different angles as you could, because it's only when everything is finished and you're sitting in your office looking through the photos that you can appreciate how much simpler it is to work with many photos than with just a handful. Take close-ups, bird's eye view shots, macro shots, and shoot from the hip as well as down low.
Lastly, shoot RAW. Each Wedding Photographer should never debate on the utility of the RAW format. You are going to print your photos, so might as well take as much detail as you could in each shot. This is something your camera's RAW shooting functionality will easily cover. Bridal Photography is serious business, and you cannot afford to work on compressed JPEGs alone.
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