Wonderful World of Weddings by Natalie Fobes
©2010 Natalie Fobes
Most of this quarter to date has been spent working on portraits and lighting. You’ve learned to use flash on camera as fill and a bounce main as well as reflectors. You’ve learned a few rules of posing. You know the importance of mixing up your lenses and using a shallow depth of field to bring attention to your subject.
All of these tools are used when you shoot a wedding. You will be working for fine light whether it is available, enhanced or totally created by your flashes.
You will be posing people for group shots and romantic couple shots.
You will be the director if there isn’t a wedding coordinator. Especially during the day other vendors will count on you to manage the flow ot the wedding day. Most of the time the DJ controls the timeline of the reception.
I’ve broken the wedding day story into chapters with hints about lighting. It may be a handy reference for you.
The main set of photographs that I think are the most important are the couple shots. This is their day. They are spending a lot of money for me to capture not only the story of their wedding but also those memorable portraits of the two of them. My goal is to create fine art photographs of them. I’m not content with just giving them the standard shot. Yes, I take those standard shots but only to loosen them up a little.
The rest of the day I’m looking at photographing them in natural, artistic ways.
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