William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist"
Subject: Re: Survey: Your Favorite Wedding Photos
Shoot the formal stuff with your camera on tripod .
Ouch! You don't want to get bogged down with a tripod.
This is like saying you don't want to get bogged down with sharp pictures.
Shoot the editorial crap (and I use this term literally) handheld, since
you have no choice. Try to at least use a handle mount flash, preferably
one that can still be adjusted to put the flash head over the lens both
vertically and horizontally.
If you are shooting actual formals, the pace is slower (not by much),
but the work is more detail oriented.
You want the camera on a tripod.
Don't discount the psychological benefits, either. It usually makes a
more favorable impression on your *subjects* (including the people
paying you) when you use a tripod for this stuff. I noticed on the few
wedding gigs that I did that everyone settled down a bit and became more
cooperative when the photographer set up on a tripod (which he did just
for the formal shots). The tripod seems to say "OK, we're all here to
have fun but let's be serious for these few minutes".
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