Photography The Essential Way
What are the essentials for wedding photography?
I have the basics, a nice dslr, various lenses, and I’m working on getting a nice tripod. But what else? I know a good quality flash would be beneficial. And for any professionals, what is a good way to get started with a portfolio for weddings. I mean how do I get my first material to show the client I can produce quality images?
When I started out I shot a wedding for a friend, at the elbow of another professional, with the understanding that I would not offer any of the photos to the couple. You can also shoot a wedding for a friend for free and give them copies of the prints. You then make up a sample album, write your price list, get a business license, and hang out your shingle.
After years of carting around all sorts of combinations of cameras, lenses, and lights I finally settled on a 35mm SLR with a 28-80 zoom lens, a sturdy tripod, two automatic flashes with stand mounts, a light stand, a slave unit, and a long PC cord. I also had a matte box with mattes, a fog filter, a star filter, and some other effect filters. Sometimes if the customer requested it I would take a 6×7 foot painted background and another lightstand to hold it, but I didn’t advertise this option.
The secret to shooting weddings is to travel LIGHT. You don’t want to be lugging heavy equipment, or so much equipment that it takes you forever to set up and tear down. Most of the shots you will be doing will be simple “bang box,” with flash on camera. The off-camera flash shots come when you’re doing the group shots after the ceremony, or if you’re doing some cutesy-poo closeup portrait-y stuff.
With digital, you can take a laptop with you to the reception, display the images from the ceremony, and take orders then and there when the excitement is high. If you have a digital projector you can also set a time right after the honeymoon when you throw a party at the bride’s house, provide the soft drinks and snacks, pass out order forms with the pricelist printed on the other side, and show the pictures to all their friends and family at once. That’s the way to make some really big orders.
You will need to make friends with a really good lab for your prints, and find some album manufacturers and get samples and pricelists. Ideally, you want enough stuff to make a good window display, so that they will get enthusiastic about buying all the pretty stuff you are showing.
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