BetterPhoto Q&A: Tips for Taking Wedding Photos

Get tips for taking wedding photos for amateurs, semi-professional, and professional photographers. Topics range from the best portrait lenses for wedding photography to working with clients to coming up with a wedding list of shots. Additionally, here is a helpful article you should take a look at: Portrait Lenses for Wedding Photography.

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  Best Lighting for Wedding Couple
Which is the best type of studio lighting for a wedding couple - soft boxes or umbrella lighting?...
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June 14, 2006
 
  What Does a Wedding Photographer Wear?
As a wedding photographer, I dress in a more dressy attire whiling filming. Would it be wrong to wear a uniformed T-shirt and khakis? I am a hired vendor and am not there as a guest. DoI have to ...
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June 03, 2006
 
  Wedding Photography ... the Ceremony
Where do you stand in the front of the church when the wedding party and bride is walking down the isle? I always feel like I am the center of attention....
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May 09, 2006
 
  Keeping the Bride's Dress Clean
Are there any secrets to helping my customer keep her dress from getting soiled when shooting her outdoor bridal portrait? She wants the standard full length, of course. I have my stool for her t...
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April 19, 2006
 
  Wedding Photography & Invitations
Hi, can anyone tell me what the norm is if you are the photographer at a wedding. Do most photogs just take pictures, or do you also do the invitations? (printing as well as taking the photos)Thank...
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April 20, 2006
 
  No-Flash Wedding
I'm throwing a question out there for the pros of this Web site: What do you do in the situation of a no-flash photographed wedding (church-rules)? Slowing down the shutter speed and using a tr...
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April 25, 2006
 
  Exposure for White Wedding Dress
How do I get detail in a wedding dress? I'm using a Canon 20D with mono-lights and I am washing out the whites. I use 400 ISO at f8. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. ...
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April 07, 2006
 
  Wedding Photography ... Getting Started
Hi, I am a beginner in photography. I received an offer to cover a wedding of my friend on May 2006. I am having a Yashica FX3 + 50mm + 70-210mm(vivitar) and a Minolta 200 flash. I'd like advic...
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March 29, 2006
 
  How to Drag Your Shutter with Flash
I am shooting a wedding this weekend and a fellow photographer friend suggested that I shoot at f/9 and drag the shutter does that mean slow the shutter down a stop or two?...
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March 14, 2006
 
  Wedding Photography: Which Digital Camera?
I'm about to take a camera course, which I hope will lead to a business in wedding photography. But I need to buy the right digital camera to do the job. How much should I spend, and can you gi...
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February 21, 2006
 
  Wedding Photography - Need Some Tips!
My friend has a wedding coming up, and she likes my pictures. I have all the equipment, but I've never shot a wedding. I've watched a photographer at a wedding once and it looks easy. I'...
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February 15, 2006
 
  Background Vs. Flash
Hi Everyone...I have noticed that many of the wedding photos I have taken have dark backgrounds... especially when I am indoors at the receptions. Now I am shooting with only one flash, so I under...
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February 06, 2006
 
  Wedding Shoot in a Dark Chapel
I have shot a lot of weddings, and have always used my 420 EX flash. It works great in dark chapels. Now, I just booked a wedding that is in September. Problem is, it's in a dark chapel and th...
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January 23, 2006
 
  How to Advertise with NO Money...??
I need some advice. I have absolutely no resources to advertise beyond the few wedding sites that I'm on, but since those are free listings I'm at the very bottom of the listings. How can I...
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January 10, 2006
 
  Wedding Photography: No Photos During Ceremony?
I have a wedding next weekend, and pastor has said "No photography" during ceremony. So I am just curious as to how much of it I should stage afterwards. We only have about an hour to an hour and a...
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December 19, 2005
 
  Reflector for Outdoor Wedding
Ok I'm doing my first paid wedding on the 11th of November and the ceremony is outdoor at 2pm in the afternoon in Florida that is a bad thing. I know I need to get a reflector but I don't k...
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October 25, 2005
 
  Wedding Photography Equipment
I have a small portrait business, and I am currently shooting on location, mostly candids. I've recently been asked to shoot a wedding. I am frantically trying to find out what kind of equipmen...
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October 18, 2005
 
  First-Time Wedding ... Jitters
I have been offered to do a wedding - yes, first time. I have proofed many weddings and have many ideas, and I have also done a few small family-oriented weddings in a studio that I worked in. I ha...
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October 18, 2005
 
  Tips for Taking Wedding Pictures
This might sound like a dumb question, but to those of you that do paid weddings; do you ever use a tripod when taking the wedding pictures? We had a photographer (she's a hobby photographer, ...
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September 14, 2005
 
  Outside Wedding at High Noon
How do you get the best photos of an outside wedding at noon? There are no trees for shaded photographs during the ceremony ... it's a garden. Any special precautions for bright sunlight? Or s...
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September 26, 2005