How to be a wedding photographer

The bride should put on her wedding dress and walk into the romantic wedding hall. Photographers should be as keen as leopards. In our memory, the leopard is an agile hunter. It has a strong figure, flexible movements and fast running speed, and can be very sensitive to the noise of surrounding plants and trees. As a wedding photographer, you should also have the same sense of smell, because every wonderful moment is fleeting, whether it is a wedding reception or a ceremony. Photographers need to find a wonderful picture in just a few tenths of a second, and then record it stably and accurately. When shooting, the hand should be "steady" and the shooting speed should be higher than the safe shutter speed. Only when the shutter speed is higher than this can the stability of hand-held shooting be guaranteed. Generally speaking, the safety shutter speed is one third of the current focal length. If you use a 50mm fixed-focus lens, the shooting speed should be faster than 1/50s to ensure that the photos are not empty. Be sure to observe the shutter speed when taking wedding photos. If the speed is not fast enough, you can increase the aperture or increase the sensitivity. Accurate focusing is "accurate". During the wedding, the first reaction to finding a wonderful picture is to lift the camera and focus calmly, so it is very important to have a camera with fast focusing speed and a lens with ultrasonic focusing. So please remember, as a wedding photographer, you are a hungry leopard at the wedding scene. What you need to do is to be vigilant and find all the "prey" that can be captured. In some cases, in order to show the mobility of the crowd, we can use the effect of slow door to shoot, appropriately reduce the aperture and increase the exposure time. Depending on what we shoot, the exposure time is different. But only if the photographer's hand is steady. If the shutter speed is lower than the safety shutter, the photographer can use a table or wall to increase the stability of shooting. After the wedding, most people create portraits. At this time, a large aperture lens comes in handy. Increase the aperture, focus on the couple's eyes, and then press the shutter without hesitation, and a film with a sense of space is produced. If the newcomer is putting on makeup in front of the window, and the light outside the window is very strong, you can consider taking some silhouettes. Although there is no facial expression of the newcomer, the beautiful face of the newcomer can set off the feeling of happiness when putting on makeup in the morning. There will be unpredictable light in the wedding, so consider using an external flash when encountering extreme environment. The external flash is chosen because it can aim the lamp holder at the roof, so that the flashing light can spread through the roof and the soft light can be scattered on the main body, so that the photos taken will look more comfortable. This way of aiming at the roof flash is called jumping flash. The built-in flash can only flash directly on the subject, which will cause excellent light on the subject, so I don't recommend using the built-in flash. If possible, the photographer can also use the flasher to shoot the bride's makeup and ring settings, so that the flasher can simulate natural light and make the photos more comfortable and natural. Through the comparison of the above three photos, we can easily see that the direct flashing of the flash will lead to excellent facial light and poor effect. The flashing effect of flash lamp is the best, but we need to equip with flasher, which is more troublesome to operate than direct flashing and jumping flashing. You can see that the light on your face is very uniform under the top flash, so it is enough for us to shoot the wedding with the top flash. "Ignore everything that can be ignored", wedding photographers should take photos with reasonable focal length and learn to take photos with telephoto lens and large aperture "subtraction". On the wedding day, there will be many relatives and friends around the couple. If there are too many people in a photo, it will be very crowded and chaotic, and there is no focus. Then the photographer should try to avoid unimportant people and things in the picture and take some close-ups of jewelry and actions, so as to highlight the main body and record happiness more simply and clearly. The aforementioned "subtraction" also includes color. If there are too many colors in the photo, it may distract the audience and make everyone's eyes unable to focus more on the expression and movement of the subject. A photo with only black, white and gray can explain a person and a thing more cleanly. Although the color is missing, what is not lost is the environment and atmosphere of the scene, which makes the audience feel the touching or joyful atmosphere at that time more personally. At the ceremony, the groom was worried about forgetting the words and prepared a speech to hide behind him. Many friends will think that the photos on the wedding day should not be depressed black and white, but must be bright colors. This idea is wrong. Foreign wedding photography often uses black and white photos, because black and white photos can explain the environment at that time more purely and intuitively. Many friends believe that the couple held a wedding, but the two swore an oath, exchanged rings and kissed on the stage, which had nothing to do with the family and friends involved. This is a big mistake. In today's wedding, the participation of friends can make the whole wedding process more relaxed and happy. No matter when the bride is putting on makeup or during the ceremony, the atmosphere will be very deserted without friends around. A wedding photographer should not only aim at new people, but also aim at family and friends, and can shoot cute expressions of small animals at the same time. Friends' knowing smiles and parents' reluctance can render a romantic and warm wedding atmosphere. Recording a wedding from more angles can enrich the content of the wedding, and at the same time, it can also make the couple look at the photos and recall the happiness, excitement, romance and happiness they experienced on the wedding day after many years. Skills and awareness of wedding day shooting: wedding photographers should have a pair of eyes that quickly discover beauty. When shooting portraits, they should use a large aperture lens to create a blurred background effect and highlight the subject. If you use a flash, you should try to shoot with a flash. Try to avoid unimportant people and things when composing, ensure the photos are clean and tidy, and take more pictures of family and friends. Render the atmosphere through the action expressions of people around you. Large aperture fixed-focus lens is suitable for taking more exquisite photos, and wide-angle zoom lens is more suitable for capturing wonderful moments. The above summary is definitely not comprehensive enough and needs to be summarized and improved by wedding photographers through countless actual combat. Although every excellent wedding photographer has different shooting skills, they all have a positive consciousness, which is also the attitude that many friends lack most, that is, we are responsible for the couple and the whole wedding. Wedding photographers should have a strong sense of responsibility. The camera in the photographer's hand is not just a simple camera on the wedding day, but the happiness of the couple's life. Don't regard wedding photography as a simple source of income. What we have to do is to record happiness and pass it on with the equipment in our hands.