Shooting a Wedding?

[ditch_azeroth]

Originally Posted by case

I will be shooting a friend's wedding this summer, and while i have taken my camera to plenty of weddings, i have never been responsible for capturing the day. i had been looking online at galleries from wedding photographers to get some ideas for shots i wanted to take, but today while waiting in line at the grocery store, my eye fell on a bridal magazine. i ended up thumbing through it in line, then buying it and scrutinizing every picture that jumped out at me (which was about one every other page). it is a great resource that i never would have thought of, so i figured i'd share.

one can find inspiration anywhere... and this sort of experience is inspiration calling out to you. i was just reading the "you know you're a photographer when..." thread and it's true - you see these kind of occurences all around. i just got out of the cinema watching iron man (robert downey jr. was perfect for the part, btw) and i was splicing the movie into cinematography, and general lighting, and effects, and so on. once you see the world through a pentaprism, things look a a whole lot different ^_^

[lissykeeper]

I'm doing a couple weddings next month also, and this is a great idea. All of the previous weddings I have done were with film and I don't really want to dig up old negatives to have samples of poses. I'm off to walmart to pick up a couple magazines to make a pose album.

By the way, I found this site through one of the post here on dps. There is some stunning wedding photography on it. thought you might check it out.

http://planetneil.com/tangents/flash-photography-techniques/6-flash-outdoors/

[Pasq]

Originally Posted by lissykeeper

I'm doing a couple weddings next month also, and this is a great idea. All of the previous weddings I have done were with film and I don't really want to dig up old negatives to have samples of poses. I'm off to walmart to pick up a couple magazines to make a pose album.

By the way, I found this site through one of the post here on dps. There is some stunning wedding photography on it. thought you might check it out.

http://planetneil.com/tangents/flash-photography-techniques/6-flash-outdoors/

wow! thanks for the link, Leona! i have my first wedding a week from today.

i picked up mags from the local stores in town and i checked out this site.

http://www.wedding-photography-secrets.com/Tips.html

[HockeyFan]

Thanx for the discussion and posting a few links. I think this is a subject that I'm going to do some research on, just because even though the thought of dealing with wedding photography (a big responsibility) scares me, I know that the mere fact that I now have a new camera and other people know it, I will be "volunteered" soon and so I will have to learn some tips and a few of the gotchas so I'll be prepared.

[SJH Foto]

Ask the ones for a little money to shoot their wedding. Who knows? You might get a side job started!