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Never Again! Probably.
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I covered my first wedding for some friends recently and I have to say I have enormous respect for people who do this for a living now. I have always seen photographers who are at ease with the crowd and seem to just blend in effortlessly to shoot magnificent photos and thought it would be straight forward enough.
I found it was very difficult to keep up with the pace of events and even though I had specific ideas of shots I wanted I wasn’t really able to implement them. I found it very difficult to tell people what to do and to be honest I ran out of energy towards the end of the day. I had two cameras with me and lots of memory cards however I managed to lose a 2 gig card somewhere in the confusion :-( Luckily I had a spare camera and still had enough coverage of the event.
Anyway below is one of the first shots taken in the morning and again, hats off to those of you who do this for a living.
Fair play to you if this was your first wedding shoot!!
If this is the standard of all the pictures you took that day, you’re sure to have others asking you to cover theirs!!
Love it and the childs expression is great too!Thanks :-) To be honest, this was the best photo of the day and it was early on when I was still relaxed enough. I got mixed results from here on but enough for an album I think (hope) they will be happy with.
I was the same on Saturday. I’ve done my brothers wedding before and shot loads at my cousins, with both the photographers advice and encouragement. I’ve also assisted on some weddings.
All that said, when it’s your gig, it’s a different ballgame. I enjoyed the day, but it was long and my energy was gone also.
First off the guests were very late, so the 3.00pm service started at 3.30, dinner was still at 5.30, so I had very little time to shoot all the stuff I wanted. Also the weather got cold and there was the start of rain, so all the outdoor shots went by the wayside.I’d happily do it again, but I certainly don’t intend making a living from this.
That shot is nice…too much PS though, but would work well in b/w….shots of people not looking at the camera mostly work well in b/w…mostly.
Trick is to communicate to your clients that you need some time, not alot, but sometime for photography even though you might doing ‘natural’ stuff. Even better is to get clients who are interested in/appreciate photography.
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