So and not knowing how, did you find yourself on the commitment to having to document your best friend’s wedding?This usually happens. They see us with a DSLR camera hanging around our necks and say, “Oysters …Why don’t you photograph my wedding?”
The best, fastest and least risky way to sneak into such situations would be to be humble, let’s say we take disgusting photos and recommend a good professional wedding photographer (like our guest last week, for example, whether we’re in Malaga or nearby).But as your friend may insist on the request, and leave you no choice but to accept your order and attend the happy event, as a guest and photographer at the same time, here I bring you a series of 6 tips.with which you can take good pictures of your best friend’s wedding.
- 1- Friendship first: it’s a little strange advice.
- But I have to put it first.
- Read the title of this article.
- Your best friend’s wedding.
- What if the pictures happened to be messy? Your friendship could fail and be in grave danger.
- To avoid these situations.
- Be realistic with your friend.
- Make it clear that you are an amateur.
- That in your life you have taken wedding photos.
- That there is a risk that.
- Being your first time.
- Your photos will lack a little professionalism.
- Or that you can improve Do it clearly.
- So that you can get rid of any responsibility.
2- Get yourself a good lens: needless to say that for the event you will need to be equipped with all the set of lenses you have, but most importantly, get the famous 50mm lens with f /1.4 aperture (of / 1.8 to what I add). This type of lens is usually best suited for portraits, and its generous aperture will allow you an excellent depth of field, which will help you a lot to highlight the bride and groom.
3- Get inspired by other professions: look at the photographic works of other professionals and remember the ones you like the most, try to get a little closer to this result, if you want to succeed with your friend invite him (and his partner) one day to his house and look together photos of other weddings made by professional photographers.Observe the reactions of your friend and partner, see which photos you like best and remember them, comment with them on their tastes, the type of photos they don’t want to miss, etc.
4- Take many photos: don’t stop shooting. Be creative, change perspective, repeat photos.Some photos will be blurry or shaky due to a slight movement of the hand and you won’t notice them because the camera screen is very small and it’s not easy to notice these kinds of details, occasionally enlarge the photos in the camera (zoom before) and verify that the photo went well, if not, repeat it as many times as necessary.
5- Shoot in JPG RAW mode: Shooting in RAW mode will allow you, later, to process the photos with peace of mind, change the settings of the camera itself and finally export them.Since you’re going to take a lot of pictures, you may or may not want to process them all (100?300?600 photos?). If you are shooting in JPG RAW, you can still use JPG if you choose not to process the RAW version at the end.
6- Watch out for the memory card: I know people who have run out of wedding photos, can you imagine?Your best friend’s happiest day is going to be ruined if you get to the end of the day telling him that your memory card is damaged, you don’t know why, and that all the photos have been lost.I get goose bumps just thinking.about that. To avoid this type of bad news, it is best to use multiple memory cards, and thus avoid putting all the eggs in a basket, in this way, if a card is suddenly damaged, only a part of the photos will be lost.Please try formatting the memory cards before using them and please make them old or worn (if you need to buy them new, buy them).
The truth is that the list of tricks could be very long, the subject would make a great book, for today we leave it here.I hope you find these tips helpful, who knows?Perhaps your friend’s proposal to photograph his wedding could be your first step into the world of professional wedding photography.Everything proposes.