You cant gain the experience of many years of professional wedding shooting overnight by do it yourself training, but you can learn relatively VERY quickly by reading a good book written by someone with many years of experience in the field. Buy a decent book, it helped me immensely when I was doing weddings and its foolish to proceed without reading one IMHO. You learn by others who already have "been there done that" for many years and you learn essentially overnight ( or however long it takes you to read the book.) They show the poses, how to direct, what to warn the couple about in advance, working the photography into the schedule of events. what not to do ( common mistakes, etc). For example, when do you take the reception table group photos and why? There is problably tons of other things it would take you years to figure out on your own, or by surfing the web for "good photos". A wedding day is a sequence of events and you have to do things in the right sequence and it needs some planning with the couple, if you just show up and shoot you are not going to do as well as if there is some planning and co-ordination. this doesnt mean you arent going to have to wing it somewhat, of course you always will, but the more planning the better the results and the less stressfull it is to the photographer and the more satisfied the client will be.
JC O'Connell [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry Colen Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:30 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Survey: Your Favorite Wedding Photos Is there any way you could get some practice? Do you know anyone else getting married where you could volunteer as an auxiliary photographer? Do you know any pros where you can say that you'd like to practice shooting, and he's welcome to the rights to anything decent you get? I believe that a lot of pro photographers bring a backup in case the run into a problem with their gear. -- It's not the steps in the dance, it's the dance in the steps. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
