Wedding follow-up strategy

Because the wedding is often followed by insufficient light or dynamic shooting, we suggest that when shooting indoors, the sensitivity of the camera is generally set at 400, because above 400, there will be noise in the image, which will affect the post-production. The aperture may be a large aperture. In order to ensure the clarity of the image, it is suggested that the speed should be controlled at1125 seconds, and at most 1/50 seconds. Flash is a very important and necessary equipment in the follow-up process. Flash to avoid direct flash, try to use reflector, such as wall or roof, which can make people's face look soft and beautiful. Of course, high-quality equipment will also add a lot of color to the captured images. Photographers can choose their own photographic equipment according to their own requirements.

Cameras commonly used in shooting include Canon EOS 5D MarkII and Canon EOS 5D. The lenses are Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM, Canon EF 85MM f/ 1.2 L II USM, and Canon EF1.

Quan Huafu's last 24-70 is equipped with a 50./kloc-0. 4 fixed focus and a 580 flash. These are all necessary. Secondly, there are some skills in wedding actual combat. The original intention of the follow-up of the wedding is a documentary, but the wedding photographer should further enhance the art on the basis of this documentary, so that the work has a beautiful and romantic artistic conception. Therefore, in the process of shooting, you can use natural light with good light to shoot the most beautiful and authentic picture.

Second, composition skills

Composition is very important to the beauty of the picture. The visual center when shooting is basically on the golden line of the picture, and the background chosen when shooting is also very clean, with strong contrast between light and dark. Horizontal composition, diagonal composition, two-in-one blank, multi-local close-up. When shooting the bride's makeup, the angle of view is special, and different viewpoints are used to compare the reality with the reality. Of course, it is important to grasp the bride's happy expression and make the visual center stand out.

Third, the main points of different wedding follow-up links

After the wedding, two photographers are usually required to follow the bride and groom at the same time, which will make the wedding image more perfect. The following are some instructions about the follow-up of the wedding around the wedding process.

1. Composition/make-up/make-up/make-up/reconciliation/configuration/make-up/bed (s)

On the wedding day, the photographer usually goes to the woman's house around seven o'clock, starting with the bride's makeup process. During the gap between the makeup artist and the bride's makeup, the photographer can photograph the still life and buildings in the bride's home, such as wedding trinkets and souvenirs carefully purchased by the bride. Of course, the key point is to shoot the bride's wedding shoes and wedding rings. When shooting these still lives, a large aperture is usually used to blur the background to highlight the subject. The shooting method of still life can refer to professional still life shooting books or some advertising shooting methods. Shooting can also use still life as the foreground (such as flowers), fuzzy characters as the background, and still life images to indicate that a beautiful day is about to begin, while fuzzy character images can give people more imagination space. You can use a fixed-focus lens to shoot still life, and the exposure combination of shooting should be adjusted according to experience and venue.

If you want to shoot good works in the makeup process, photographers should also learn to communicate with makeup artists. Good makeup artists generally know how to give up their shooting positions at the right time. When shooting the bride, the photographer can first observe which angles of the bride are more beautiful, so as to capture the beautiful moment of the bride when shooting.

If the man's photographer wants to take pictures of the wedding car and the wedding scene, he must take the details of the float (such as tying flowers) to the scene of the motorcade. The shooting of the wedding ceremony mainly focuses on the interaction between the groom and the best man or their relatives and friends. At this time, we should be good at capturing the smiles on the characters' faces to reflect the festive atmosphere. On the way to the wedding reception, the photographer's car should follow the wedding car and wait for an opportunity to photograph its speed sense from its side. This time can be expressed by some objects, such as bridges, trees and tunnels.

After the groom arrives at the woman, he will "grab the bride". At this time, the bride and groom were separated inside and outside the wedding room, and two photographers had to follow these two scenes separately. At this time, the atmosphere is very active, and the true feelings of the characters are naturally revealed. At this time, the photographer should be the director and the atmosphere is entirely up to you. Choose a good angle to capture these moving pictures. After robbing the bride, the groom will take her home. Photographers should take dynamic photos from the woman's home to the wedding car, and they can take a dynamic feeling in a low-angle continuous shooting way. After the bride enters the wedding car, she can choose different perspectives to shoot the happy expression of the couple.

3. Wedding reception (wedding)

Next, before the wedding reception, the photographer should take advantage of the gap between the arrangement of the wedding company and the arrival of the guests to shoot the wedding scene. At this point, the scene layout has basically stopped. If the guests take photos after entering the venue, the scene will be very chaotic. At this time, the shooting content is also from subtle to big scenes. For some lively and interesting small details and warm and romantic big scenes, photographers should carefully choose the angle, and these images will also leave a good impression on the newcomers.

After the welcome party began, the guests entered one after another. At this time, it is very important to take pictures of the bride and groom welcoming guests, accepting their blessings and interacting with them. At this time, you can use wide-angle and telephoto to shoot different atmospheres at the scene. Wide-angle images can show a wide range of happy atmosphere on the spot, and telephoto can capture the sweet moments of newcomers.

After the banquet began, the scene light began to become chaotic, which tested the photographer's shooting level. Because the light at the scene is changeable, the photographer can measure the exposure first. Choosing the angle of side backlight and backlight at the wedding will make the picture cleaner and more beautiful, but it is difficult to shoot, because it is difficult to control the focus when shooting with backlight and manual focusing is needed.

Fourth, the angle and position.

How to make a documentary shine at a follow-up wedding requires us to grasp different angles. In fact, the angle is very simple, that is, the normal overhead shooting and the parallel shooting of overhead shooting, which is the seat. The angle between the photographer and the subject on the cross section is also very important, front, side and back. This vertical and horizontal plane is actually a three-dimensional 3D space with countless angles to capture.

The station is mainly at the wedding scene. Although our photography is basically guerrilla, we can't be completely self-sufficient. Here we need to pay attention to the central reservation of cameras. Its position will basically not move, just zoom in and out. So it can't be shielded for a long time. When we have to stop it, we should move quickly and get out of the way after clicking. Moreover, when we shoot the stage, it is impossible to stand still in one place, so the angle we shoot will not be very vivid and will be recorded rigidly. You can shoot from both sides of the stage, in front or even behind, creating a rich perspective and giving people a different sense of change.

5. Coordination among shutter, aperture, ISO and flash.

It's hard to say on the whole. Experience is to grasp a key point, that is, when using the flash, it should be played naturally, so if you want to play naturally, you need a mode: slow synchronization. In fact, it is to brighten the subject on the premise of ensuring natural light. It is called "slow" because the shutter speed is relatively slow in dark environment to ensure ambient light. Besides, we're shooting a wedding, and we need to take a snapshot, so we need to shutter quickly. What should we do? We must cooperate with high ISO.

The experience is that the indoor environment is generally in iso400-iso 1600, m file, the shutter is in 1/60s- 1/200s, to ensure the ambient light, and then manually output the flash to control the fill light. The basic angle of the flash is between the shooting direction in front and 60 degrees in the vertical direction. Ensure the overall brightness, accurate subject exposure and natural soft picture.

Sixth, communication with some important people.

Communication is necessary and needs to communicate with a large number of people. This is very, very good for our shooting. Communicate with the bride, arouse her emotions, and let her feelings of joy and happiness show, so that we can capture. Usually brides are nervous at first. You can chat with her easily, tell stories about other people's marriage, and let her tell interesting stories about her previous relationship with the groom. Naturally, she will relax, smile, be happy, and be happy naturally. If we click on it, we can catch it.

Communicate with the groom, let him relax and let him not care too much about messy things. These things will be managed by special people, supervisors and helpful friends. Let him interact with the bride as much as possible, let him relax and feel the happiness of this wedding, so that they have a tacit understanding and our film production rate is greatly improved. Communicate with the supervisor to understand our arrangement of shooting related content. For example, the route of the team, the situation of the camera car, the departure time, the arrival time and so on.

Communicate with the wedding site supervisor to understand the wedding start time, process, lighting situation and the location of important people. Because we don't know the bride and groom's seven aunts and their leaders, we must know some snapshots of them in advance before we can put them in place. Communicate with the host MC to learn the details of the process, including the appearance of the new couple, the location of the new couple, the location of the host, who will speak first, light candles, make a glass of wine and so on. Before the wedding, we must fully grasp the whole process and closely cooperate with important people in all aspects, so as to master the advance amount and prepare for shooting before the process leaves.

Seven, equipment.

The most practical focal length is 24-70 focal length converted to 35mm.

The focal length of the close-up lens is 70-200 after being converted to 35mm.

The focal length of shooting a big scene is 16-35, which is converted into 35mm.

In fact, it is the so-called big three yuan. However, we don't necessarily need to completely cover these focus parts! Our main lens must be zoomed to cover the focal length of 24-70. Because some positions can't be close to the distance, it's not convenient to focus. Fixed focus is a brilliant lens, and other lenses can be fixed focus, from 16 to 200. The fixed-focus aperture is large, and the picture quality is good, which can make a very tasteful documentary effect. Focuses of 35, 50, 85, 135 are also mainly used.

Large scenes need ultra-wide lenses, and the focal length is wider than that of 35mm 24. The requirements for the fuselage are: fast continuous shooting, high sensitivity and accurate focusing speed. Quan Huafu is natural and ideal, and the C format is completely acceptable. It is best to have three machines and three mirrors, or two machines and three mirrors, or two machines and two mirrors. You'd better not think about changing your head. You hardly have time to change the lens.

Eight, the general process of wedding photography

1, action. At present, wedding photography is synchronized with makeup. If it is a single stop, the photographer should come to the bride's house at about the same time as the makeup artist, and follow the bride to shoot, because the bride is the focus and highlight of the day. If there is a double room, another photographer will go to the groom's house to follow him.

2, the overall shooting process. The whole process is roughly divided into three parts: the first part is at the bride's house. This part includes the process of the bride's makeup, the process of the groom going to the bride's house to marry the bride, and the process of starting from the bride's family's motorcade. Secondly, some customs have been added in the process of taking the bride back to her new house. If you go directly to the hotel, it's in the motorcade part of the road. Third, it is the whole process of the hotel.

3. What needs to be filmed in each link.

1) part of the bride's family.

This part of the shooting content should be the most free and easy to shoot. There is enough time to debug the camera and enough angle to grasp. Both natural light and flash can be changed; You can take a snapshot and pose. It's very free. The content is also very rich: small things at home. For example, there are too many things to shoot, such as pasted happy characters, small toys at home, balloons specially arranged for the wedding, photos of couples, wedding photos, cups and pillows. Here, we need to observe carefully, find the best angle and use the most suitable focal length. Generally, natural light can be used, and a long fixed-focus lens with a large aperture can be used to avoid complicated background. If the environment is particularly good, in turn, you can use a wide-angle large aperture lens to collect some background elements. Then there are important items on the wedding day, such as wedding ring, bride's shoes, souvenirs, marriage certificate, guarantee and so on. These things should be photographed brilliantly, the photos should be impressive, the imagination should be used, the composition and light should be paid attention to, and the artistic effect should be expressed. Because these are very critical things.

Then, shoot the bride's makeup process, close-up, panoramic view and appreciation. The purpose is to make the bride beautiful and happy. After the bride finishes making up, she takes some actions. At this time, you can pose, or the bride and bridesmaid interact and shoot some funny, interesting and happy scenes. You can also take some photos that the bride expects. This kind of quiet picture can also take some family photos. After the mother, father and bride finish painting makeup, try to avoid taking photos with too many people and waste this precious posing time. I've been filming a lot these days, and my makeup is very good, and I'm in good condition and not tired.

Then the groom came to pick up the bride, blocked the door and stuffed red envelopes. There is no need to mobilize emotions during this period. Generally, when the mood is high, everyone will be very happy. This paragraph is about the ability to take a snapshot of the postgraduate entrance examination, all of which are fast-paced The groom enters the door, presents flowers, looks for shoes, the best man steals the teapot, the groom puts shoes on the bride, presents flowers, and so on. Customs and habits are different, but these links are generally taken care of here. The scene will be chaotic. It can be arranged properly, and put a little more. But the more natural, the better. Because they are all happy and happy from the heart.

Other links, such as feeding jiaozi, find a good angle, the angle should be sharp, and it is also common not to be sharp. Go out, get on the bus, this section should be captured well, there is no chance for you to pose and use the lens well. This paragraph involves an indoor and outdoor conversion, and the white balance of the aperture shutter iso flash has changed. Generally, the light can be measured before going out or switched in time. This action is fast, crowded and chaotic. If you want to take a snapshot, adjust the lens or change the lens, you must make it well in advance.

2) On the road.

The main thing is to take photos of the team starting and going on the road. You can take photos of the newcomers in the car on the road, let them say hello and pat the dynamic driving mode of the car. Take a wide-angle view of the beautiful scenery on the road and take a beautiful photo with the team. If you go back to your new home first, the camera adjustment will change, which usually won't take long. Take some sweet photos, kisses, hugs and silhouettes of the new couple in their new home during this time. Generally, the layout of the new house will be much better than that of the bride's house, and the decoration will be good and new, so pay attention to the beautiful scenery of the new house and capture it.

3) Hotel.

After arriving at the hotel, the bride should get off first. The environment is very complicated at this time. There are many people and chaos, as well as colorful ribbons and smooth backlight. Some weddings will be arranged and organized. If not, it would be a mess. Be sure to pay attention to the position, angle and capture the most beautiful picture. Generally, this part is wide-angle shooting, and ultra-wide shooting will also be used. Then, the most important place for photographers to take the postgraduate entrance examination is that the bride and groom walk into the hotel from the outside. This change, adjusting camera parameters, must be quick. Some machines have custom functions, so you can make good use of them. Just fix several parameter settings 123, and just change the dial directly.

Next is the welcome stage, in which you can have a rest and easily capture some interesting pictures, such as children. But the relaxation time is only a few minutes. Then the bride goes back to change clothes or something. At this time, she ran to the ceremony stage to shoot ornaments, shoot the scene environment, adjust the lens, drink some water, smoke a cigarette, have a rest and replenish her strength. Talk to the wedding emcee to learn about the switching of lighting effects and the details of the whole process. Then adjust the equipment and wait for the wedding to begin.

After the wedding, we fought guerrilla warfare and constantly changed positions. For the process we already know, we should stand well in advance and don't let those non-professional friends who come to shoot block our theme. Shoot the whole wedding from every link and angle. In fact, the scene is just some snapshots, and the time is not particularly tight. Write down records and capture colorful things that others can't see, and the ceremony is completed. Help yourself to something and have a rest. Waiting for a toast. The scene of the toast is relatively simple, and it is not easy to make a movie. You must use your brains to find a better angle and special effects to make a wonderful picture. After the toast, the last step is to see the guests off, and it is also possible to take a snapshot. If the bride changes clothes, she can take some small photos to supplement the series of photos taken during the whole wedding.

4. End.

After seeing the guests off, say hello to the bride and groom and ask if there is anything special to shoot. If not, let's call it a day.