Hi, gang! I got roped into doing a wedding in late June for a family member. About two years ago I started seriously considering doing this sort of work, but then decided against it. However, my wife's cousin is putting together a wedding on a limited budget (it is apparently very expensive to bring a young lady to the US if she's planning on staying here permanently) and asked if I would consider doing the photography. Knowing that he probably wouldn't be able to afford professional photographer I agreed to shoot the event for expenses only. (He's actually not going to pay me a dime, but he doesn't know that yet.) I'll be providing them with a small album of prints and a DVD with quite a few more "ready to print" photos. Anyway, I have a few questions.
The plan is to shoot as much as possible with a digital body. I'll bring along a couple of film bodies for backup purposes. As of now this means the K100D and probably the PZ-1 and MX. A couple of zooms, a few primes, a tripod and a flash gun or two will round out the kit. Am I missing anything? I guess I need to actually learn how to use Photoshop efficiently. Could you recommend any particular books that approach Photoshop from a photographer's point of view? My wife will have her hands full with herding our daughter down the aisle (flower girl), as well as helping with the coordination of the wedding day, so I'm not expecting any help from her. This means that dumping memory cards to the laptop may not happen until it's all over. Shoot JPEG, or suck it up and buy a few more SD cards to allow me to shoot RAW? I may try to con another family member into doing some donkey work for me, but I'm not counting on it. Any other advice for a wedding newbie would be greatly appreciated. In the meantime my daughter's probably going to grow to hate the camera, and my next-door-neighbor's teenage daughter is getting free senior portraits (I need the practice). Thanks a bunch! -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com Shoot more film! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
