What do you need to prepare for wedding photography?

1, indoor film and television lamps and lanterns

Because it is shot in an indoor studio, in this environment, a large number of artificial light sources are needed, so it is necessary to equip several high-power film and television lamps. Take an indoor environment of 54 square meters, 6 meters wide and 9 meters long as an example. What we need is at least three 400-watt tripod video lights, each with a soft lampshade, a condenser and a beehive.

For the change of light, we often use three lights to superimpose the light, which are a main light and two auxiliary lights, one of which is responsible for the light supplement on the weak side of the main light, and the other is responsible for the hair lighting or background lighting behind the characters. Through the change of three light sources, people with high-profile or environmentally friendly photography style can be photographed.

Of course, the commercial wedding photography we often see is high-gloss wedding dresses, but if a friend asks for some special effects, it needs some special light changes.

2. Reflector

The reflector is really good, cheap and practical, and it is a necessary photographic accessory for both indoor and outdoor photography. Generally, we can see that the reflector has two sides, one is the silver side that reflects normal incident light, and the other is the golden side that reflects normal incident light as warm light. There are many application technologies of reflector, but we need to compensate the light of the main body in areas that are difficult to reach by external light sources in order to achieve the overall light balance. Of course, in indoor photography, the change of main light also includes smooth light, backlight and side backlight, so we make different supplementary light according to different glamorous changes to achieve satisfactory results.

3. Wireless flash

Flash is an indispensable tool in indoor photography. It is a tool to send out a flashing light source to the film and television lamp through the hot boots of the SLR camera. There are many flashers that we can see in photographic equipment stores now, but they are mainly composed of two parts: a hot shoe trigger and a light receiver.

In this part of the flasher, it is also divided into active and passive. Among them, the active receiver needs to be connected to the film and television lamp through power-on, and the passive receiver uses the No.5 battery. In addition, in terms of channel setting, I suggest you buy multi-channel works, so that there will be no interference between several channels. In flash synchronization, as long as it is within the flash synchronization range of your SLR camera. In addition, Bian Xiao wants to emphasize that some flashers in the market use wired flashers and work under high voltage. If the operation is improper, it will burn the motherboard of SLR by overheating, so it is still not recommended.

4. Others

As for other props for indoor photography, there are really endless streams, such as background cloth, which is a necessary thing for an indoor studio, including monochrome background cloth and theme background cloth. In the choice of background cloth, it is strongly recommended that friends who are not familiar with indoor photography try to use gray, black and white as the background, so as to have a better grasp of exposure and better control of artificial light sources. In addition, props such as flashlights and fans are also essential, which will create a better atmosphere. Of course, if possible, speakers can be added around the studio to play some music that people like, which will make the characters more expressive and the photographers more handy.