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Wedding Photography Tips | Its all in the detail…
08.06.2010 | Send to friend | No comments
This post is all about the kind of images you ought to be photographing at a wedding, the detail / accessory shots at the place where the bride is getting ready. The kind of detail shots you must have for the album. What you want to do is to keep things extremely simple as there is usually very little time and quite often things are running behind or late !
You need at least 15 minutes to do all the close-up shots. So while the bride is getting her hair & make-up done, I’ll get the shots of the dress hanging up, shoes, jewellery, bouquets, tiaras, dresses of bridesmaids hanging up, etc.
Most of the time I’m using available ambient light for these shots, even if it is dark, you should have no hesitation in bumping of your ISO to 2000-3200 with the latest camera bodies from Nikon / Canon. Due to the lack of time, avoid setting up lighting / flash heads. Never use on-camera flash or your pop-up flash of your camera, this just kills the image off. There is always a window around, try and use the window light as much as possible. I’m looking for ‘directional lighting’. The following images are from 1 wedding and not a set of images from various weddings.
Using window light only for the dresses hanging up.
Keep an eye out for any marks or spots in the background. The one on the above image on the top right corner. This should be cloned or cropped.
The lighting set up used for the above shots was only window light or the ambient light in the room. All you need to look out for is a window sill. Here is a shot of the area by the window I used for photographing these shots. The dark brown colour of the window sill acts as a good background and is fairly reflective as well.
Couple of important factors in creating these images is obviously the quality of light. An overcast & cloudy day gives a very diffused & soft light. On this day it was fairly cloudy so I had no problems with harsh daylight from the window. The other very important factor is the lens you use. You need a macro lens. My favourite lens is the Nikon 105VR. This is an incredible piece of glass ideal for close-ups and also for portrait work.
Hope you enjoyed this post.
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