On Feb 12, 2009, at 2:03 PM, ann sanfedele wrote:
Christian wrote:
John Celio wrote:
The wedding I'm shooting draws closer every day, and I get more
and more nervous every time I think about it. It's just under a
month away now. I'd like to ask for a little help:
What are your favorite wedding photos? Photos you've shot,
someone has shot of you, or photos someone else shot that you've
seen online.
Thanks, everyone. I cannot believe how nervous I am just writing
about this!
I hate weddings. I hate everything about weddings. I hate how
wedding photos are all so contrived and silly.
me too me too me too... but I shot a few for a small amolunt of
money for good friends or as wedding presents...
I'll post a few pictures I actually like that I took at weddings to
my smugmug site ... maybe :-)
John - the most important thing (to the bride) is that you get at
least one decent shot of EVERYONE at the wedding...
in addition to the requisite posed ones and getting all the
rituals... . The people who hired you have seen your photos
right? so they picked you because of you... but I know that my
friend whose wedding I couldn't shoot (because I couldnt
go to the wedding in Chile) was heartbroken, as was her mother, that
the local photog had over shot the local relatives
and friends of the groom, and even missed totally the brides brother
with his girlfriend and mo re than one friend of the bride's
family who had travelled at great expense to attend the event. Not
to mention that the photos were not so good for the most
part, either...
Ask the bride for a list of key things/ people, beyond the obvious...
Go for lots of candids when the reception losens up and people are
less concious of you and are having fun.
Shoot the formal stuff with your camera on tripod .
Ouch! You don't want to get bogged down with a tripod. It's okay to
use one from the back of the church, if it's a church ceremony and you
have an assistant to help with that. But forget it otherwise. You have
to move fast. Most brides want a minimum of formal stuff these days.
"Editorial style" is the buzzword in wedding photography and most are
looking for that. If you have good flash equipment and a proper
diffuser (preferably a lightsphere or at least a good bounce card
setup), you can handle just about any lighting situation. I shoot
almost everyone at a wedding, but I do it in the course of the event.
I don't ignore what's going on to do portraits. I stay focused on the
bride and groom and try to catch the special moments.
Of course you will have to do some portrait pics, even if you're asked
to do editorial style. You'll want to shoot at least a few formals of
the bride and groom and perhaps the parents and wedding party outdoors
in a great location if possible. Unless you have perfect diffuse
light, use fill flash with those as well. On the one occasion when I
couldn't shoot some portraits outside due to monsoon rains, I set up
studio lights in the reception area, knocked off several of the bride
and groom, one of the wedding party, one of each set of parents, then
packed up the lights and put them away. That worked. When I shoot a
wedding, I always have my monolights and light stands packed in the
back of my Jeep. Just in case. But I only had to pull them out once
from among numerous weddings.
Paul
my 2 cents if it is of any help
ann
That being said, I always admired (former PDMLer) Tom Vanveen's
work for what I found as uniqueness in the field.
http://www.bigdayphoto.com/wedding_galleries.htm
Tom is definitely a super wedding photog... good to look at those...
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