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Wedding Camera?
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Hi everyone,
I am very interested in starting wedding photography. I recently upgraded to a Nikon D90 and want to know peoples opinion on this. Would it be ok to shoot weddings with it? Is it good enough? I have a Sony a200 as a back up. I understand about all the equipment i will need for a wedding etc but just wondered about the D90.
All opinions most greatfully appreciated.
Thanks, Lucy :wink:
I’d say lenses are much more worthy of careful consideration. The D90 is a great camera, I’m sure it would be fine paired with the right lenses from iso 1000 and below. To be honest unless you are really good at making people relax and look happy, have a tried and tested set of tactics for coaxing unco-operative people and the camera shy into willing puppets and hair trigger readiness for anticipating and catching those elusive perfect moments, I’d concentrate more on investing in skills over equipment.
Apologies if I’m making presumptions, you probably have researched the field very well and are fully aware that the gear is really the very least of your worries in your main job as wedding co-ordinator, confidant, set director, child entertainer, negotiator and sheppard!!!
Thank you very much for opinion, very much appreciated :) . I’m starting off small and am currently building my portfolio. I have courses done but wouldn’t undertake anything until i’m fully confident of what i’m doing. I am building my equipment etc at present too.
Thanks, Lucy
Cian is right, its more about the lenses to be honest.
The D90 is a fine camera and will do a good job for you.Would I be right in saying the d90 is the nikon equivilent to the canon 500d.
okay I agree with the above comments within reason. it is a fine camera and it is about how good your skills are but almost every tom dick and harry have a dSLR now, and at every wedding there will be at least 3-10 guest with a similar camera and people will ask why pay for a pro, not understanding that it is about alot more than the kit. for this reason someone shooting with a D3x or D700 even with the same experience and skill will get more gigs.
Snob value… stupid but real
for this reason someone shooting with a D3x or D700 even with the same experience and skill will get more gigs.
Do the majority of couples really ask what camera you use when making their decision to hire or not?
I’d have thought the portfolio/reputation/price would be the most important factors?
Just wondering… not disagreeing.
best client is a client for life, hopefully there won’t be much repeat work with weddings but referals will help and if 5% of possible clients ask about kit you could loose out on enough business to make the difference between bread line and doing well.
I shoot interiors and property mainly, I was using a 400D and had an interior designer comment that she had the better version of the same camera 450D, my client had a look of confussion wondering why he was paying me money for something she had the kit to do, when I explained the techniques I use it was okay but I could see cases where it would not go down well with the client. I know use a 50D and will also be using a 5D mkII more than likely from early next year.
I heard of a photographer at a dinner party showing a picture or two that he took, the host said “those pictures are great, you must have a good camera” to which he replied “the food is great, you must have a good oven”.
the above is a bit muddled, should not try type while feeding the baba,
everyone here knows that it is the photographer not his kit, although the kit does help :). but the general public look at things like big lenses and big cameras and then results. anyway if you camera is the same size or samller than others and you look less like a “pro” it might hurt the number of referals you get.
stupid but probably true, sometime investing in a bigger camera can help as much as spending the same amount on certain typs of adds
I wouldn’t worry too much about the camera so long as it can achieve some decent results. Your lens/lenses, your technique will be far more important and above all, the results that you achieve will speak volumes.
Develop your technique, get familiar with your equipment and if possible get 1 or 2 decent lenses and a good flash unit and you should be fine. It’s probably wise to borrow a second camera body as a backup if you can’t afford to buy one (just to be on the safe side)
Wedding photos are very rarely enlarged to very big sizes anyway, so I rekon, any camera above 10 mp should be ok, but others may disagree
If you find bigger cameras intimidating, just stick a battery grip on yours and it will look more impressive (but it won’t improve your shots :lol: )An old boss of mine used to say, “A fool with a tool is still a fool”….(Not call anyone a fool)
Its up to how you use it and the conditions.
If you need to shoot without a flash the pro cameras are better for noise at high ISO’s.
I use a 40D with 16-35L 2.8 & 70-200L IS 2.8 and I wasn’t happy some shots I took at a wedding were the ISO was 1000.
These are two fairly good lenses so I’d say a 5D Mk2 or its equivalent would be the must (at least) for a wedding photographer.Thanks a mil for all replies :). Was talking to a guy the other day who tapes over his camera brand name(with black tape). He was saying it keeps people guessing and the ‘snobs’ can’t say anything either :)
He also attaches a battery grip to make it look bigger. He’s uses a Nikon D80.
That’s a fantastic comment about the photographer having a great comment and the host having a great oven :lol: :lol:
I must remember that.
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