It can take a year to plan and lasts just one special day, so ensuring pictures of your wedding are captured as beautifully as possible is crucial. After the vicar, the photographer has the most important job as it’s his responsibility to ensure your happy memories are preserved for posterity.
Getting the lighting right, ensuring the whole operation runs smoothly and captures the best impressions of you and your guests takes experience, expertise and the right equipment. So unfortunately, Uncle John with his new, shiny camera is not going to cut it. Weddings are expensive occasions, and employing the right photographer will, after the reception, probably be your second biggest expense, so make sure you hire the right one!
Once you’ve had a look at their website and spoken on the phone, you should arrange to meet the photographer several months before the big day. This will give you an opportunity to decide whether you gel, and that they’d be able to create the right rapport with you and your guests.
Make sure you see full albums of weddings they’ve photographed before, and not just a selection of their best work. This also gives you an opportunity to decide what style of pictures you’d like:
* Traditional/Classical – carefully posed pictures from a pre-selected shot list designed to capture you looking your best, and plenty of wide shots of friends and family.
* Reportage – unobtrusive, magazine style pictures that reflect genuine moments and record the day in a relaxed manner.
* Contemporary – a combination of formal shots and relaxed candid photos.
Once you’ve selected the package you want, you can then move on to discussing the price, but remember that photography is a skill and not a commodity. While people will forget whether there was a band and how the food tasted, a picture can last a lifetime.
On the big day, you can arrange for the photographer to capture the early morning preparations and then to capture specific moments of your reception such as your first dance. Or alternately, they can be there just to capture the ceremony and the cutting of the cake. The choice is yours, but don’t forget to have them capture the unique wedding favors you selected!
Once he’s returned to his studio, the photographer will be able to use the wonders of modern technology to remove incidences of red eye, crop the images to best fit the frame and even add special effects to produce the perfect wedding montage.
After the all cake’s been eaten, the guests have left and the wedding presents opened, you can sit down and enjoy reminiscing over your beautiful photos. They can either be presented to you in a ready made album or on a DVD so you can sit back and watch a slideshow while scribbling down the numbers of the ones to be printed. Your favourite pictures can then be put in an album, presented to loved ones and put in frames so you can be reminded of your fairy tale wedding day for many years to come.
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whoa!!it looks like a PICTURE!
ur an amazing painter!:D
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Hi,
Shooting for a wedding seems to be so simple, and you said she jus want some snapshots of her happy moments. Believe my words, it’s not that much easier and not very tuff too.
Let me explain about what most of the photographers do when they have an assignment on wedding. They set the camera aperture to a good high number (means you have less opening to allow light), this is to increase depth. Because, you may not in a position to shift focus every time you take a shot. It’s better to have a good depth of field so that your camera may act as a simple point and shoot camera. But another thing, how can you manage light with small aperture, there comes the use of flash. (If you couldn’t find a flash device, please drop the above idea).
About the creative-side, you have to be very careful at the moment happening around. You are not supposed to miss out any thing that is supposed to be captured. When everyone is posing then its fine and you can have your time. If you are organizing the people together, and taking the shots that too great. But unfortunately, both the things a photographer can’t expect at wedding. Take two shots of best happenings, both with different technicalities (think you must be fast or pre-planned about the things to make your technical changes in a rapid way, coz a matter a time matters a lot in photography, and you can’t get the event back. Select your shots, give emphasis on good moments.
Candid shots would be great (most candid shots are roughly taken like no proper focus and not even good framing. Thank god!! Light-controls were in-built in modern cameras). But make it fine men; you can do it overcoming all these silly things (you may call it so after a couple of ‘couple’ shoots, ha!).
Plan your shots; think about the technical aspects you are using on every shot. Think upon the output. Make proper exposures, coz exposure gives life to the photographs. Hope you know that!! What I say is, take it light but not too light!! Fine!!!
Take care! All the very best!!
Bye!!
I would go with the Canon 20d or 30d. More expensive but so worth it. Check ebay for online stores with great prices. Go through wedding magazines and check out poses and facial expressions. You should ask if she's looking for more formal poses or candid shots. I'm hoping that you know photoshop pretty well. Good pictures take some editing. There is a digital photography for dummies book. Good reference guide for the basics. You could also look at some advice on http://www.photographytips.com.
As far as the advice from others about not doing it, the only way you're going to get better is to shoot. Not just practice either. You need to be on actual events. If you can, find a mentor, someone who is willing to take you along on some events and just let you shoot with them. That's how I got started. I tagged along on some portrait sessions, engagement pictures, weddings, interviews with prospective clients, anything I could. I watched a lot and shot a lot. I watched how he dealt with people, how he handled large groups, pushy relatives, how he answered questions, composed shots, I asked lots of questions about lighting and posture. I was fortunate that he wanted to teach me all of this and had loads of patience and it helped me greatly. It helped with my skills, confidence, and love of the business and of photography. If you want it, you have to chase it and keep chasing it until you are good enough to catch this dream and run with it.
You need to let your friend know that you are not a professional YET. That way she's not going to expect something from you that you can't give.
Good luck!
Brilliant Willy, Just Brilliant =D
Incredible! He looks so life like. Just amazing…and what a beautiful subject
Great talent Der Mann.
You’re really good man. You’ve got excellent talent.
Very nice!!
Nice work, you did pretty good.
Excellent work. Pleasure to watch. Perfect music
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