How to a wedding photograph Tips for a professional Wedding photographer for wedding

Are you fascinated by aspiring photographer? You have been invited friends or acquaintances to do wedding photography, but you are not confident in their abilities? I’ll try to give a couple of practical tips for professional wedding photo shoot.

How to photograph a wedding — wedding photography lessons

Equipment

Set photographic equipment needed to capture the wedding looks like a first approximation, like so:

1. Digital SLR camera — a faithful companion of the photographer of the day.

2. The external flash unit with a rotary head to create the reflected light.

3. A zoom lens with focal lengths in the range of 20–70 (for cameras with a crop factor of 1.6) or 24–100 (for cameras with a crop factor of 1, i.e., a frame full).

4. At least one fast lens (with an aperture of 1.2 to 2.8) with a portrait focal length (50 to 85) for the staged shooting on a walk.

5. A minimum of 2 sets of batteries for flash and fast charging for them also.

6. Additional battery for the camera and charge it.

7. Flash card for at least 2,000 shots (size based on the size of the output file) — it was not necessary to make room light. You can take a margin, so that they are now very much not.

8. It is desirable soft box on the flash, the largest, which will find (in the case of mirror / dark ceilings / walls.

9. Reflector “white / gold” for softening harsh shadows on a sunny day!

10. If possible, take the friends of the second camera (flash, lens) — Equipment is not eternal and can fail at any time!!!

11. Lens- cloth to clean the lens.

12. The tablets of gastric headache.

Read the instructions to the camera inside and out — maybe discover something new! Read the instructions for the flash … :) Now you know — how it works…

Preparation

1. Said with a young, they want to get to the shooting: portraits, comic / gaming scenes, staged foty….? With its clients I meet and spend a trial photo shoot, to see the young as they are obtained. We rehearse typical pose for staging the shooting. The meeting is always the result of only improve as people, too, need to get used to the fact that they are constant targets lens, liberated, to see how they look, smile …

2. You may want to discuss the purchase of additional accessories for the shooting: umbrella, fan, etc. 3. Do not promise, and do not take money for the first shot! Otherwise by his own stupidity you can remember it for a long time.

4. Find out where the walk will take place, look on the Internet or roll up and look at the site, look for a beautiful alley, building, textured structures (fences, walls …).

Before leaving be sure to check that all took with them

Shoot!

1. RAW format can only be removed — this will pull the dark and overexposed pictures, as well as to set the correct white balance even when the combined light (natural light incandescent bulbs). Handle recommend specialized raw-converter from the manufacturer, not the third party (who is now a great many) in order not to have problems with color rendering (requires third-party pick up the profile of the work program for your camera).

2. Do not forget the details: rings, flowers, bridal bouquet, groom’s boutonniere, stud, eye, wedding glasses, toys in the house of the bride, bride’s hairstyle, dress details, etc.

3. Take the general plans: the house, entrance, room of the bride, both inside and outside the registry office, walking portrait of young growth in the beautiful surroundings…

4. Use a variety of perspectives: from the lowest point — from under his feet, the top (especially the eyes of the bride), the side (including group of 3–5 people, but watch out for the depth of field), growth and portrait diagonally.

5. Make time for guests: portraits of parents, friends, and comic and touching-photos always delight your young ones!

6. be sure to make individual portraits of young and paired: growth, bust, face.

7. Use perspective: alleys, stairs, arch repeating…

8. Do not try to center objects in the picture — stick to the rules of composition … The portraits do not cut the legs at knee level. Make sure that the growth in the portrait is not cut shoes.

9. In the registry office (usually where all the guests are going to) do offer a large group photo and individual photos with parents and witnesses.

10. Try to avoid photos under direct bright sunlight, to avoid the “morning in the Chinese countryside.” also be careful backlit — may be a glare on the photos of the fallen into the lens to direct light, as well as the person may require a backlight reflector, so it was not too dark on the background of the surrounding light objects.

11. Staraytes not remove the shadow of rare trees, when the shadow is not constant and reflected spots on people’s faces.

12. Recommend to the registrar hired a young photographer, if in doubt in their abilities and / or do not know the characteristics of shooting in the registry office, in order to insure against failures and traps!

13. In the wedding ceremony, ask the young do so slowly — nobody wings. Let necessarily pay attention to you, look into each other’s eyes. You need to make virtually staged photos on the signature and equipped with rings.

14. If you see the hotspots in the image, or vice versa dark photos that do not meet the established settings — most likely triggered parasitic outbreak. The most simple and effective method, if you have a well-charged batteries — do double shots: parasitic outbreaks long enough…

Focal length and perspective distortion lenses

1. Never photograph portrait on the front focal length less than 50mm for cameras with a crop factor of 1.6 and less than 85mm for the full-frame. Especially those distortions hurt the eyes with vertical frames!

2. Remember the rule: it is better to move and zoom lens, if you can move! From the point of view of application of focal lengths: 20mm ~ — for group portraits, portrait growth ~ 50 ~ 85–135mm — waist, bust and face portrait!

3. Remember, the greater the focal length you use, the greater the possibility of more to blur the background and highlight the object!

Metering modes!

Room

1. When shooting indoors, use the manual mode (M for Canon cameras) with an exposure of at least 1 / 100s.- aperture set depending on the task and ambient light. Dancing and dynamic competitions — do not delay longer than 1 / 250s.

2. If the lighting is not sufficient and the background goes dark — Raise the ISO, to somehow equalize the illumination!

3. In the room, try to control the light external flash. Do not install it just vertically at the ceiling, and tilt left and right to 45gr. This will create a more interesting pattern of light and shadow on people’s faces. Especially eludes effect flare direction towards the human eyes when he looks away from the camera!

4. Strongly use when shooting indoors reflectors, sliding plate from the flash, all kinds of nozzles on the flash, do not tilt the flash in the direction of the subject even “slightly” (photographed person does not see even a part of flash). In the best case, they remove natural light and shade (under the eyes, chin), which are created by reflected light in the worst -. Form ugly contours behind the subject (especially if there is an object or people behind the subject).

5. Soft Box is applicable in one case: if you are black or mirrored ceilings and walls, well, or at all, and there is no light to reflect simply nowhere! And even in such a situation, try to manage the increase in ISO — better get a grainy picture (in moderation), than to see flat images with sunken background.

6. A good worth in advance to ask the customer about the lighting in the restaurant and provide complex options…

7. as an advanced solution — can be used several studio lights with umbrellas or soft boxes stationary.

Open spaces.

1. When shooting outdoors in bright / light day use mode “aperture priority.” By controlling the aperture, you can identify the main actors on the background of other people or surrounding objects and properly affix the emphasis on pictures, making a sharp one or another object.

2. On a bright day, guided by the histogram, lest over bright (on the screen of the camera is not always possible to see). It can also set exposure compensation by one-third or two-thirds below the center stage — brighten the picture is much easier to fix than overexposure.

3. If it’s foggy (or smoky — as the 2010 in Moscow) — it will be possible to correct the contrast enhancement in raw-converter after shooting. In such a situation it is better to avoid general plans and not removed from the subject over a long distance.

4. If it’s cloudy or dusk, should switch from “Aperture Priority” mode “shutter priority” not to get a blur due to long exposure, set camera’s automatic…

5. When you get out of the building do not forget to reduce the ISO (ISO is set manually if) and switch to the “Aperture Priority” or “Shutter Priority.” Mode On the street in open hole (when set to a small f-number: from 1.2 to 4) in the “Aperture Priority” mode on a bright day not include flash — delay is set not shorter turns clear and specific overexposure 1/250, which does not pull even in RAW !!!

Focusing

If you are using the aperture value of more than 4 — you can focus on the central point, and crop the picture after half-pressing the shutter button to take pictures after boosting.

If you have a fast lens and the diaphragm can be increased to 1.4 (for example), use the focus point as close as possible to your subject to minimum movement of the camera after focusing for framing. Such an aperture depth of field is very small and if you move the camera an object can get out of the field area.

And smile more often — gloomy wedding photographer does not have the fun and sincere emotions on wedding photos are much more difficult to achieve.

Talk to warn you about competitions and important events in the program.

We should not relax when seated to eat, and I advise you not to abuse alcohol, so that in the morning they grieve result!

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