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How To Be a Successful Wedding Photographer?

Which photography is best for a wedding? How many photos should a wedding photographer deliver? What are the rules you have to follow to be a professional wedding photographer?

All of these questions and more come up to your mind about wedding photography. I think such questions come to our minds because we have no idea about the rules of this career. It seems like it’s a funny job, but we choked that capturing a moment isn’t as easy as we think. It needs a professional one to decide the way he will take the photo and the photo’s angle. It's very complex and needs experience in this category of photography. In this article, I will talk with you about wedding photography in order to make it clear for you to decide which photographer is the best.

 

  • Wedding photography

To be a wedding photographer means you have to be creative, fast, interested in details, and a very organized guy.

Besides, have technical tools to do your job perfectly. Wedding photography is a career that you may spend more than 6 hours creating good photos to make the wedding memorable.

It’s the job that you must be accurate in capturing moments and reactions or you will cause your effort to be lost.

Therefore, there are many rules you must follow to be sure that you are able to cover the wedding professionally.


Tips to be a professional wedding photographer

  • Agreed on the price

The first rule. You must have an agreement on the price before starting processing the wedding shot list. Be sure that all payment details are clear for both of you.

 

  • Manage your time

That is the second rule you must follow in wedding, as you have to manage your time by creating a list of all moments you will cover like: The first one hour I will cover the preparation of the wedding ceremony. In the next 2 hours, I will take some shots from the marriage celebration hall.. etc. This is the way you manage to cover all details.

 

  • Creating a shot list

One of the rules to be sure you will produce perfect photos is to create a list of shots you want to take. Try to make shots appear normal and capture them from more than one frame to make a variety.

 

  • Write done the couple’s favorite shots

The majority of couples you will meet have expectations for the wedding shot. So write it down with your shot list to make sure that you will cover the wedding as they want.

 

  • Be sure the cameras sound is turned off

You are in a noisy place, and you have to create videos with music so you have to turn the sound off the camera. To make sure that there is no noise with your video.

 

  • Wedding hall is maters

One of the best photos you have to create is the photos for the ceremony's location and preparation so don’t lose them.

 

  • Family and friends photos

There is no ceremony without family so be sure that your list includes family photos. It will be a memory, focusing on details.

 

  • One camera isn’t enough

In a wedding ceremony's coverage, you need to take more than a shot for the moments, and in this case, one camera won't be enough, as you need to use two cameras. Make one of them with a wide-angle and the second with a 70 mm to take long line shots. You don’t have to buy it now, you can just borrow or hire it until you are able to buy a camera.

 

  • Take your assistant with you

One of the wedding photography rules is to consider an assistant with you and if you have no assistants try to take another photographer. This strategy makes you able to cover all details and cover the wedding perfectly by distributing tasks among both of you.

 

  • Traditional photos may help

One of the biggest mistakes by photographers is to refuse to take traditional shots from the wedding. But it will help you to create an integrated photo album.

 

Conclusion

Wedding photography is a serious job as the moment you didn't capture can't be repeated. So you need to be fast, creative, and trust your camera to create it perfectly.