Category: Wedding photography
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Late Night Editing
Have you met the photographer who edits their work in the front seat of their car while driving to the next shoot? Or the one who clocks out of a wedding at midnight and starts the Lightroom sorting at 1:30 in the morning so that the proofs can be dropped to the bridal couple at…
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Enhance Your Professional Presence By Editing Your Files In The John
And you can, these days. It would appear that you can do professional-quality photo editing on your mobile phone or tablet from anywhere with a wifi signal. For all I know, you may be able to do it on your wristwatch. This frees up valuable time - you can collate entire weddings from the third stall…
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Night Wedding
There used to be a law or convention in Western Australia that prohibited wedding ceremonies after sunset. Whether that was really the case or not, I don’t know, but I only ever saw it flouted once – when a celebrant went to sleep in the afternoon and had to be roused by an irate wedding…
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Recce
Recce early and recce thoroughly. a. Visit with the people who are going to be involved in the shoot. At their premises, yours, or wherever the photos are to be made. b. Look around carefully. Note: i. Electrical power outlets.ii. Existing lights.iii. Open spaces and pathways through a crowd.iv. Vantage points and shooting positions.v. Emergency…
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Uniformed Troops Vs Guerillas
Should your firm send people to an event – wedding, ball, show, or conference – dressed formally? Or casually? Should they wear the same dress? A uniform or similar civvie dress? Should they wear something to blend in with the crowd? I vote for uniforms, but civilian photographic ones. We are not the military, and…
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B-Roll
Or C-roll. Or D or E. The photographers supposedly further down the food chain from the principal at a shoot. These are people separate from roadies, gaffers, assistants, or partners. They are photographers with specific jobs and appropriate skills for them: a. The principal. Name shooter for the event, often with the business as their…
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Risks Of Behaving In A Fair And Kindly Fashion
Good moral behaviour in business is becoming ever more dangerous. Practitioners who deal honestly with their clients, suppliers, and employees are at grave risk of being thrown to the commercial lions. One of the primary clues that this is being prepared is when the owner of a business is tied up in their office and…
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Be A Street Photographer – Indoors
I do not haunt streets…I haunt houses. Or dance halls. I am a better sort of ghost. You can be one too, and for a good reason. Now to begin with I am not going to denigrate street photographers…either the old fashioned ones who try to sell you pictures of yourself taken as you walk…
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What A Load Of Horse Shit
My apologies to the faint-hearted. Horse Shit is a technical expression – used a lot in Canberra by press secretaries. I mean the AI business. Someone has discovered a new way of making the mobile phone/computer/tablet/Tamagotchi world do another back flip. We can now tell our computers our deepest guilty secrets and get 8 x…
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I Say We Slap Some Sense Into Them…
Into whom? a. Camera makers. We do not need to shoot at 240 frames per second with pre-focussing and pre-release. We need to shoot one good shot. No amount of automation can teach us the good sense and good timing that experience provides. b. Brides It is a wedding, not a major Hollywood production. The…