After a long day of shooting, here in my hotel room I run through 5 tips that will help things go smoothly on the big day. Not to be alarmist – but it is a tough gig if you want to do it properly, so think things through, plan, and give it your very best. In Australia I recommend Digital Camera Warehouse: goo.gl Outside Australia I recommend Adorama: goo.gl & Amazon: goo.gl ====== Sign up to our mailing list at www.thatnikonguy.com See all the latest photography news & reviews on my second channel here www.youtube.com Join in: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
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25 responses to “5 tips for successful wedding photography”
great stuff
good advice mate been shooting wedding 10 years now and still Learning!! love all the videos..:-)
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thanks buddy
Please don’t shorten the videos they are fine in my opinion!!!! Long videos are good as long as they are informative!!!
cheers
Life is pretty short, I commend you for making this comment!
yes, that is all I use.
oh another question if you don’t mind: do you feel confident with speedlights only during a wedding or do you back it up with some more powerful strobe lights as well?
great info thanks! You talked about the autofocus and continuous shooting speed of your D4 – I’m thinking about getting a D800 and that body obviously can’t keep up in terms of speed/autofocus but I’m aware of that.
I’d just like to know what are the rather fast-paced situations you are facing during a wedding where it might get tricky? thanks mate
In my country, that’s usually the host’s/EMCEE’s job. There’s usually someone in charge of that at church, right after the ceremony (mostly a relative). From what I observe, though, there hasn’t been much communication between the photographer(s) and host/ess.
weeding is not hard to shoot, it’s challenging.
retired now but 30yrs of weddings under my belt that one statement is so true if you dont know who steve is ask… its that simple ..
Matt.. can you do a video on when you normally do what during a wedding?
Thank you for your answer 🙂 Its just sometimes hard to squeeze in the own project inbetween the jobs, but im sure you have it all thought out. Was just curious. Im a big fan, and im glad that you put up more videos. Nice day to you Mr.Granger
see my video on time management. I work long days. My spare time is wife, family and friends. I don’t watch TV, I don’t ‘waste’ a lot of time – I use my time on things that are important to me 🙂
I would like to ask you, and this is a very personal question, but do you have time left to be with your wife ? I am nowhere as experienced as you are, only a passionate amateur, but i find myself being consumed by watching a lot of videos on photography, and then shooting, so i can really imagine, if your doing this as a full-time job, your whole day your on location, and i imagine that the post process time is 2-3x longer then the actual shoot, working on weekends too.
same here – ive also put on weight but for me thats effecting on my productivity of doing work 🙂 so that was just a friendly advice
cheers
Good question. I normally start with the FULL group shot before people start drinking or run off. THen I make it clear – All the grooms family stay for shots, and brides family stay over THERE and we will call you in 10 minutes. Then the couple and bridal party can help identify people… you need to be ‘part of the team’ rather than an outsider. I wouldnt hesitate for a second to ask one of the parents – which person is ‘steve’, we need him for this shot.
so when the bride/groom gives you a list of the people they want you to photograph, how do you know who is who at the event? you have a list with 20 names how do call them or find them? Thank you.
What in the name of God has his weight got to do with anything? I’ve put on weight recently too, not from overworking that’s for sure!
A lot of the time, P will serve the purpose of shooting perfectly. You don’t always need to carefully set up before every photo, especially if you have to do things quickly.
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What glass are you using with that D4?……. good vid:)
his money! 🙂