There are a few things that I learned the hard and not-so-hard way when I was first starting out as a wedding photographer. First, practice makes perfect. Second, your camera should be like an extension of your arm. Third, patience, persistence and passion for what you are doing are needed to survive the business.
The first time that I attempted to be a photographer was when my uncle’s son got married. He owns a pretty good SLR digital camera and since he’s the groom’s dad – he handed over his role as the family photographer to me. I was pretty close to where the action was but I wasn’t familiar yet with the settings of the camera so whenever I attempted to get a pretty good shot of the couple during the ceremony, they either turned out blurred or out of focus.
During the formal shots, I was discreetly ‘stealing’ the photos taken by the pro wedding photographer by shooting at a different angle. I had to zoom in to get close-up shots of the happy couple – but as you may already know, the results when I downloaded the pictures later on were amateurish: a mixture of a few good shots, some which will do fine with a bit of fixing on PhotoShop – and a few really disastrous ones which are worth deleting.
But I was determined to learn so I worked as a wedding photographer’s assistant – and later on finally managed to cover weddings on my own. Each wedding is definitely unique, and the mistakes that I made I took as an opportunity to learn.
Now, I do consider my camera as an extension of my arm whenever I’m out covering weddings. Through dogged persistence, I was able to learn about the ins and outs of the wedding photography industry and I can tinker with the settings on my beloved SLR digital camera even with my eyes closed.
But more importantly, I learned that passion for the work that you do is the key if you want to enjoy that immense sense of satisfaction on seeing the newlywed couple’s face light up as they see the results of your work – which is what I live and still work hard for these days.
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Get Inspiration from the Top 5 Wedding Photographer Blogs to Improve on Your Wedding Photography Business
Are you just starting out on your wedding photography career? Are you getting frustrated that there are things you seem to miss out on which the successful wedding photographers take for granted? Are there techniques you wish to learn about and yet cannot find the right place to learn them from?
Well, here are the top 5 wedding photographer blogs online which you can open and follow. The blogs are free, they offer advises and they aim to help out other photographers in terms of techniques and style.
Log on to the blog of Ben Chrisman at http://benchrismanblog.com/ if you want to see what style means. There are no words to explain the style that comes with the wedding photographs of this man, the site offers up a palette of images which could truly inspire the photographer to strive hard to produce the post production results that brides could only dream about.
Next on the list is Heather Waraksa’s blog at http://heatherwaraksablog.com/ which will inspire the photographer and wedding couple to go for the drama of the day type of photography. The drama, Hollywood style, takes the one looking at the images into the tinsel town effect.
Third on the list is Jasmine Star at http://jasminestarblog.com/ not only produces the great images, but the end product all tell of stories behind the images. One takes a look and sees a story behind the image, something not so simple to do.
Fourth is Jerry Ghionis at http://jerryghionisblog.com has the ability to make a chaotic and stressful and at the same time fun event into something like it was a set design. This is all due to his background in fashion photography. The end results are definitely hard to accomplish, beautiful to behold.
And last on the list is Del Sol Photography at http://delsolphotography.com/blog/ photojournalism style reigns supreme. The images are poignant and endearing, candid and unrehearsed. Put together, the end result is a wedding photography that screams quality and fun.
Visit these blogs and study the way the professionals do it. You, the amateur, will learn a lot just by looking at the images.
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