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I'm planing on doing wedding photography what do i need to know before getting into this type of work? |
Is the SONY A-100 good enough for wedding photography? Before shooting your first wedding on your own, you need experience as a helper or assistant photographer to a good wedding photographer. Weddings are (hopefully) a once-in-a-lifetime event for the couple, you should NOT take a chance on ruining it because of inexperience. Yes, any digital or film SLR is good enough for most weddings. Note that some couples demand higher quality that can only be gotten from medium format. (Cameras which give much higher resolution than the common 35mm film or digital format.) Medium format film setups with camera, two lenses and flash will run you $6000 and up, digital even more. You can get a head start by reading some good wedding photo books, but there is no substitute for experience! Source(s): Camera Club Educational Coordinator Professional Photographer Photography Workshop Leader You will be working with emotionally charged clients. Brides and their mothers are the worst to deal with on the wedding day. Set your policies and stick to it. Yeah, that's a fantastic camera. BUT, do you know how to use it? Unless you have the proper training and practice, I wouldn't dare get into wedding photography. People pay alot of money for you to capture those special moments. And if you screw them up... Take some classes first. Work with a professional! Then ask what you need to know before starting into wedding photography. I'm sorry if I sound ugly, but anyone with a digital camera nowadays thinks they can take pictures. Sure they can. But are they portraits? Something a person will treasure and be proud to show their friends and family for the rest of their lives? Do some thinking first. wedding photography is a very hard job you have to read a lot of book before you get started. To give you a little tip scan the area ahead of time and look for places where you think would be a good place to be while taking pictures. One thing you need to keep in mind while taking picture is lighting. Know your your aperture, shutter speed, and ISO you will be using. Try to experiment with your camera while it is set on manual in different light condition. Different light setting is inside where you have different light and outside in sunlight (not the best) and in the shade. Taking picture also involves being creative, planning, and to relax. These are just the main things there are a lot more. Hope I was of some help. As some already mentioned.. it is really difficult to start... I've seen alot of people who decide to take up wedding photography just because they own a good camera.... the camera is really not the most important thing here. Im a wedding photographer myself and it is really hard to start getting clients at first because you really need to have a Portfolio set up.. if you don't have that.. NO ONE will trust you and hire you to do their wedding... after all this is a ONE time thing and you have to make sure you won't ruin it. So I advise you to actually assist some other photographers and test your knowledge and create a portfolio. You also have to decide on how you are going to make your packages and create a contract and make them sing it in order to avoid lawsuits in case they did not like the pics or anything goes against what you have discussed. * Handing Negatives or amount of pics given, proofs* Your camera is a good camera... but you really need to learn how to use it.. I shoot with film and digital and i never use automatic features. Test your camera.. take it to friends weddings, take it to birthdays or any social even you can think of and try to take some pics from different angles and most importantly different lighting and time of day.. you really dont want to miss the perfect shot of the married couple because of light issues If you have the right equipment, the right exposures and a really good artistic eye.. and well patience and tolerance towards the families ....you can do it Hope this helps Good luck! |
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