Shoot raw, get a few more cards, they're relatively cheap.
Scott Loveless wrote:
> 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!
>
>
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