Wedding photography skills

Lead: As a happy event in life, it would be nice if the atmosphere at the wedding scene could be maintained all the time. Wedding photography skills can help you.

Wedding photography skills 1. Choice of Equipment As a wedding photographer, first of all, you should not be careless in the choice of equipment. Generally, Quan Huafu SLR camera is chosen as the camera, because the wedding scene and light are complex, and the indoor light is usually insufficient, so it is necessary to improve the sensitivity. You still need continuous shooting to capture people's expressions? Even if you have advanced skills, these are not problems (but it is impossible). As a wedding photographer, the camera model is not high-end, and your professional level will be questioned. In this era of digital cameras flooding, equipment parties are everywhere. How can I show my professionalism? Let's put our clothes away! Of course, a camera is not enough. Usually wedding photographers have to hang two cameras around their necks, so that after one of them breaks down, the other can still work. The other two cameras plus two different types of lenses (fixed focus+zoom or short focus+medium telephoto) can save you time to change lenses and ensure that you can capture those fleeting moments.

Every girl is the most beautiful bride on her wedding day, and her mother is looking at her beloved daughter lovingly.

There are more choices of lenses. The focal length of 24-70mm can be said to be the most used, which is determined by the nature and environment of the wedding follow-up. The head with this focal length is quite convenient in tissue composition. In addition, people often choose large aperture and fixed focal length to shoot some close-ups and still life details. The telephoto lens will play a role in the wedding ceremony, because some scenes are not suitable for you to get close to and cannot interfere with the sight and work of the audience and cameraman. Wide-angle lenses are used to include people and scenes in photos to create a festive atmosphere.

Flash is one of the essential accessories, because many weddings will be completed in dim scenes, so photographers need to brighten the main body and sometimes fill the light. Everyone who has attended the wedding knows that the lighting at the scene is quite chaotic. If the brightness is not enough and there is no flash, it is equivalent to white. The camera can also be connected to the battery pack to speed up the call back.

Batteries and memory cards must be fully prepared! The battery should be as high capacity as possible, and the number of replacement should be reduced. Use good rechargeable batteries for flashlights as much as possible. It is recommended to use a high-speed card to ensure storage speed and continuous shooting speed! Under normal circumstances, we will always choose to use jpg straight out, mainly considering the storage speed.

Second, understand the wedding process. It is very important to ask the couple or the wedding company for a process in advance. A preview will help you find a good position in advance, so that you can shoot a special angle or a very interesting picture.

1, get dressed

There are many things a bride can play with in the process of making up, tidying up and preparing. As the preparation process of the most important moment in life, it is full of expectations, but also a little nervous and anxious, as well as emotional exchanges between friends, girlfriends and relatives. These are all good subjects for shooting. For example, wedding rings, or high heels that have not been put on, and the smiling faces of relatives and friends can make every moment a meaningful shot.

In the whole process of the wedding, there are many objects worthy of being photographed by the wedding photographer. They can be indispensable props in the wedding, and they can also be decorations that can set off the wedding atmosphere. In addition, these things are easy to shoot, and a large aperture fixed-focus lens is definitely the first choice. Because it is still life, you can focus slowly.

You can also ask new people to lend you some props, be creative and put on some interesting shapes, which will also enrich your content. Usually photographers have to get up early, go to the bride's house and start a hard day's work. But filming the bride is still very interesting. You have to shoot more in this process, and there are many shooting methods. Let's share them with you:

Making full use of specular reflection to recreate space is a common technique, but it is very interesting because it helps the bride express and render her heart.

Capture close-ups

Close-ups with hidden details sometimes leave a lot of room for imagination.

Windows will become an important indoor light source in most cases. You can let the bride stand in front of the window and pull up the gauze curtain, so that the window becomes a huge soft box, and the light of the sun after passing through the gauze is scattered on the bride, forming an ideal diffuse soft light. There was a high-profile backlight in front of the window, and the window behind the bride was completely exposed to high-profile overexposure.

While shooting the bride, don't forget the bride's girlfriends. You can let the bride interact with your girlfriends, put on some lively shapes, try to make young people lively, and don't be too formal when taking a group photo. The same applies to the photo of the groom.

In addition, if the bride's makeup has been painted and the groom hasn't arrived yet, take more photos of the bride, and the waiting eyes are also good material.

2. The groom group receives relatives

From this point on, snapshots become more and more important. However, you can't teach this skill, you can only practice it, otherwise everyone will become Bresson? However, there are also some opportunistic ways. If you are a novice and feel that you can't start, then you can stay with the cameraman and learn his shooting angle and timing. And see how to take today's wedding photos, and press the shutter to see the lens position you want for the wedding photos. It is also a kind of learning. As a photographer of relatives and friends, as long as he tries not to interfere with the main photo, he should be able to take photos he likes, or shots missed by relatives and friends, so as to make the whole wedding record more complete and happy, or simply stay with the couple.

Step 3: Get on the bus.

Don't concentrate on getting on the bus, because according to general experience, the film production rate in this case is quite high, and it is also an important moment for newcomers and their families to show their feelings. Always pay attention to the changes in the scene and don't miss important moments, because the past will never happen again.

If possible, be sure to take the same car with your relatives, seize the beautiful moment and communicate emotionally. Don't miss the scene where the couple shake hands. If not, direct one and let the couple do the action.

4. Wedding scene

Here comes the real test. Dark rooms, complicated lighting, a large number of guests, various activities and ceremonies, etc. Everything is a challenge and everything is an opportunity.

Black-and-white images-This is a very useful trick, because black-and-white tones will remove the visual interference caused by inconsistent colors, and let the audience focus on the subject, because how to highlight the subject is the key to taking black-and-white photos. At this time, it is necessary to test your composition, sense of space and observation.

As mentioned above, the understanding process is very important. As the saying goes, hundreds of miles have different winds and customs, and each family has its own characteristics. Know in advance, get ready, then find a good position, open your eyes, capture the changes in the expression of the new couple, don't fight unprepared, press the shutter more!

3. Skilled shooting skills When you arrive at the wedding banquet, you should take advantage of the gap between the arrangement of the wedding company and the arrival of the guests to shoot the wedding scene. Let's start with the criteria for wedding and shooting.

Some people say that it is normal to record the whole wedding, but it is not surprising that it is qualified; Record the whole wedding follow-up normally, but some unexpected works are excellent; The normal record of the whole wedding follow-up and surprise is excellent. Even now, this standard is still very applicable, and it's time to test you.

1, control exposure

The lighting at the wedding banquet is chaotic and changes greatly, so it is very important to control the exposure and light. This requires the photographer to test in advance according to the brightness of the scene light and master the approximate parameters. If you capture some beautiful moments, such as the bride walking to the groom accompanied by her father, the bride and groom exchanging rings and drinking a glass of wine, etc. You are sure to make a creative film. Before, you can remind couples to do some important actions slowly, although sometimes it is really slow, which is conducive to capturing wonderful moments. You can also make a snapshot list.

2. Details of still life shooting

In addition to capturing the happy moments of the couple, we also need to shoot some details of the wedding scene. Wedding scene, wedding scene layout, such as flower arches, carpets, small flowers held by the bride, wine glasses and wedding candy, are all exquisite. On the wedding day, many flowers were arranged at the venue. Champagne towers, candlesticks, bouquets, corsages, rings and other small objects and details are the necessary list for wedding shooting, and also the place to shine.

3. Selection of aperture and shutter speed

Wedding scenes usually contain passionate love and deep feelings. At the shooting scene, photographers will take more close-ups of the groom, bride and their parents, and take big photos or group photos of their relatives and friends. Here, there are deep feelings, joy, emotion and happiness?

When shooting close-up portraits, try to set the aperture below F4 and F2.8, which will highlight the theme of the characters and blur the background. When shooting a group of people or a big scene, using a smaller aperture such as f/8 can provide a greater depth of field and ensure that people in each position are clear.

When shooting indoors, due to the dim light, if you don't use the flash, be careful not to set the shutter speed too low, and it is best not to be lower than 1/80 seconds when taking pictures with your hand.

4. ISO setting of sensitivity

During the wedding ceremony, you will encounter different kinds of light, which requires setting different ISO parameters. In the outdoor scene with bright light, you can choose low ISO, and you can choose 100 or even lower 50, so that you can take more delicate photos. If the environment of hotels and new houses is dark, higher ISO is needed, such as 800, 1250 and so on.

Every wedding has far-reaching significance for the bride and groom. Although the process will end soon, the happy and sweet moment will remain in the camera forever. For some people, May will be a happy wedding month. Pick up the camera in your hand and record the sweet moment!