| http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; | | | | have to show off — use a small camera. |
| charset=utf-8"> | | | | These days, people are so used to having camera |
| Wedding photography is — let’s | | | | phones or pocket digital cameras around that |
| face it — traditionally boring. Who, with the | | | | they don’t think anything of them. By |
| exception of the bride and the bride’s | | | | contrast, the snout like lenses of SLR cameras |
| mum, wants to see 200 snaps of family and | | | | seem huge and intrusive — so, wedding |
| friends looking hot and awkward in hired suits or | | | | photography tips number 2, don’t use an |
| little Johnny smearing himself with wedding cake in | | | | obtrusive camera unless you really have to. |
| his ghastly pageboy outfit? A wedding, after all, is | | | | Around little cameras, people of all ages act |
| a living monument to life and love. Perhaps (dare | | | | naturally. |
| we say it?) wedding photography could, or should, | | | | Number 3: no list of wedding photography tips |
| be a little... freer? To this end, a selection of | | | | would be complete without this one — |
| wedding photography tips for the unpaid | | | | don’t try and take pictures that look like |
| photographer. | | | | the stuff you see in professional wedding |
| The Alpha and Omega of all wedding photography | | | | portfolios. That’s why the happy couple |
| tips: don’t get too drunk. Anyone who | | | | have hired a wedding photographer. The mission |
| wants to take decent shots at a wedding needs | | | | of the amateur is to come away with a different |
| to be sober enough to pick and choose the snaps | | | | story of the same event — the people |
| they are taking. Even digital photography loses its | | | | story, all the human bits and bobs that the pros |
| charm when you’ve taken 800 out of | | | | tend to miss. Unless, of course, you count lining |
| focus pictures of a bridesmaid’s cleavage. | | | | everyone up under a tree as the human side of a |
| Also: make sure everyone else is drunk enough, | | | | wedding. Another important thing to remember |
| or at least relaxed enough, to be comfortable. | | | | — take the photos you want to take, not |
| Wedding photography tips 101 — taking | | | | the pictures you think the couple might want to |
| pictures at a wedding is basic portrait | | | | see. Successful photos only ever come with |
| photography, and in basic portrait photography | | | | unique personal vision. Wedding photography tips, |
| the first thing you learn is to relax your subject | | | | like tips for all forms of photography, are based |
| so they forget you are holding a camera. | | | | on this one rule: be yourself, and the camera will |
| Which leads us nicely to the next in our list of | | | | record an idiosyncratic, individual story of the day. |
| wedding photography tips. Unless you really, really | | | | |