How to photograph a wedding.

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  • Vasil

    thank you

  • Andrey Lastochkin

    “… Why there are more pictures of the bride's sister on the filmed material…” :)))

  • Andrei

    Oops! It is so nice to see photos of your wedding decoration work! =) (Photos 2 and 4 above) Vitalik and Oksana, Mirage Cafe, August 2012. To design holidays, call 0637279837 or 0674064487, we will be happy !!!

  • Ilya

    Mmmda, my least favorite registry office is "Dneprovsky registry office". Here they do not ask, but impose the photographer and the operator, close the shots to another operator with their backs playing on their own ((((

  • Sergei

    A week later, the niece asked to rent her wedding. How to shoot in the registry office and cafe, of course. This we have already passed. But here is shooting on the street? It is cloudy now, there is a shallow, nasty snow. The forecast for the week is the same. Today I just shot passers-by, my wife, cars. Complete inexpressive grayness. What can you advise? Lenses: whale 18-135 3,5-5,6; Sigma 50mm 1,4.

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Shoot for fifty dollars, to highlight objects, it is very desirable with a flash, this will help add contrast to the pictures and remove the "mess". In general, I do not recommend doing a walk on the street, it is better to go to some place where it is warm and cozy and shoot in the interior.

  • Sergei

    Thanks for the advice. I’ll work out with a flash tomorrow. And will they walk, or not, they do not ask me.

  • Ilya

    Yes, horror is so disgusting on the street. Today I shot a wedding, now I'm sitting and pulling with RAW ((((this is not in the summer =)

  • Iryna

    Good evening, pidkazht yakі naikrashche pididiyut objktivi for zyomi vesіllya !!!! ???

    • Arkady Shapoval

      I will tell you if you specify for which camera.

      • Iryna

        nikon d5100

  • Iryna

    Nikon d5100, dyakoy

    • Arkady Shapoval

      A universal wedding version of the Nikon 17-55mm f / 2.8G IF-ED AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor, and you can also get something from the TV range like Nikon 70-200mm f / 2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor

      • rom4yk

        Arkady, this is TIN!
        Ira Nikon has a d5100, and you give her a Nikon 70-200mm f / 2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor for 16900 UAH and
        Nikon 17-55mm f / 2.8G IF-ED AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor for 10500 XNUMX UAH
        I think it's a little harsh! I think Ira appreciated your humor!

        • Arkady Shapoval

          The question was, “Good evening, let's go to the best way to go to the obktivi for zyomi fun !!!! ???”. Did I suggest bad lenses? Or is there something better than 17-55 for the staff?

          • rom4yk

            )) I'm sorry, but I did not want to dispute your qualifications in this matter! .. it was a question of the ratio of the steepness of the price for these lenses and the price of the camera itself (even though I have the same one and I like it)! just a little expensive!

            • Yuriy75

              As an option 18-105 + flash, and fast aperture 50 1,8.

  • Denis

    As never before, I hasten to agree with Arkady regarding the use of Nikon 17-55 f / 2,8 and Nikon 70-200 f / 2,8 on a DX-camera for shooting a wedding. From my (albeit not very large) experience shooting weddings and observing the work of colleagues at weddings, I want to confirm that really Nikon 70-200mm f / 2.8 is very, very popular. In general, I see that at weddings telephoto lenses are increasingly being used. Well, 17-55 closes the wide angle very well.

  • Maksim

    While studying at the institute, he shot weddings for three years. And I completely agree with all that has been said.

    I lived in Tashkent and it’s easier with the registry offices. Photographers are usually offered only when they submit documents (for the whole wedding shooting). But there are no obstacles at the wedding itself. And fed by default, so this was never specified.

    There is still one not the best moment when young friends climb with soap dishes and distract from shooting, get into the frame and just annoy.

  • anonym

    And it's time for us Nikons weddings to be included in the Red Book: (... Canon's all for a long time already “showered with caps (Marks).” Canon and the wedding became like an immortal image of “worker and collective farm woman”.

    • Joanna

      I am a full-time working photo studio, I have a cheap Canon only for taking passports and I do not climb higher. But I also noticed that Nikon-you are dying out weddings, tell me what is the matter and the difference in these photo firms?

      • Arkady Shapoval

        In our country, everything depends on money, they say, Canon is cheaper, that’s nobody on Nikon, and even more so on Watering.

  • Irina

    Hello, Arkady. I was persistently asked to rent a wedding, I understand that this is not just a walk or a birthday - for me this is a serious event. After a year of shooting with a DSLR, the requirements for technology increased (Nikon 5000 with a whale), bought a flash of the sb900, and for starters helios 81n (the difference in pictures is super), but with autofocus it would be more fun. Here is a reason to buy an additional lens, I was at a loss what for myself I determined that I am inclined to fixes, the universal wedding version of the Nikon 17-55mm f / 2.8G IF-ED AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor, and something from the range like Nikon 70 -200mm f / 2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor is expensive for me, I choose between 50 1 \ 8G AF-S and 85 1/8 AF-S which one will be more in demand, or what other options can be considered? THANKS in advance .

    • Arkady Shapoval

      With 50 1 \ 8G AF-S will be excellent, easier than 85tk. 85ct will be a bit long for a wedding with legwork.

  • Vladimir

    Hello Arkady. I literally just switched from a soapbox to a DSLR. You say that it takes a lot of time to finalize photos, and without it, you can't go anywhere. Could you tell me what literature on photo processing to read? For I would not want to waste time on “how to master Photoshop in 24 hours”, but to study not only the tool but also the essence of the process. Understand what the result should be and why.

  • Irina

    Hello, Arkady. Again to you for wise advice. I’ll be shooting a wedding for the first time, I have a d5000, a flash of 900, 50 1 \ 8G AF-S, and I’ve also acquired 18-300 3,5-5,6 AF-S. Tell me which lens is better to shoot the registry office, there will be no time to rearrange the lens, and I'm new to this business. Thank you in advance.

    • Denis

      Irina, 50 f / 1.8G AF-S do not put it exactly in the registry office (it will be very narrow in coverage - screw it up :))), 18-300 is the same (at least in focal lengths).

  • Tatyana

    Hello, Arkady. Tell me, please, will I manage at the wedding with one 24-105 lens with a 5D Mark III? Or you also need a fix. lens?

    • Arkady Shapoval

      You can completely do it, especially if it's 24-105 4 L

  • Sergei

    Arkady, thank you for the interesting articles. Tell me, what is the best reflector advise. Are you sure to use it?

  • Oksana

    In a month, a merry wedding is coming, where I was appointed both a witness and a photographer (my sister is getting married, so I cannot refuse either the first or the second of my functions). As I understand it, “Tamron 17-50” is enough for the registry office and the premises of the cafe. Question on the second glass. There is a possibility that until then I will be able to purchase either “Jupiter 37A” or “MC Sonnar Carel Zeiss Jena f3,5 135mm”. Should I take these glasses for street photography? Or get along with Nikkor's "fifty kopeck piece"? Already now the brain endures from what and how to shoot better ... And, most importantly, what. Thanks in advance for your reply!

    • Lynx

      in the presence of 17-50 you fifty dollars will be unnecessary.
      ...
      As for manual long-focusers - everything is not so simple here, you need to know how to use them, which means you need practice. I would advise you to rent some kind of long-focus automatic lens and go with it “for portraits in nature and long-distance shooting”. And for everything else, indoors, 17-50 is enough for you.

      • Oksana

        Thank you very much for your advice! I'm just getting used to the manual long-lens, accustoming myself not to shake my hands (there are no problems with everything else, but the camera is shaking in my hands) :). My "Tamron" draws well, but, as for me, at its 50mm it loses to that of a 50mm prime lens. There I will take my "fifty kopecks": useful - good, not useful - well, okay. And about the rental ... Yes, there is no rental of photographic equipment in our city, alas. :) Although the advice on this matter is very practical and useful, thanks! :)

  • Alexander Yarygin

    Last week, I was invited by a friend to a wedding. And something struck me so on this matter. what he drank what did not. The restaurant did not even have time to really knock over a glass. He approached the matter as a military man. my camera is my sniper and capture / capture as many good moments as possible. Fortunately, the program was rich in terms of competitions. The total is 2900+ and an almost full 32 gig flash drive with a photo, a planted battery (but I had a spare one with me), I'm sitting filtering, rejecting what you said "porridge". Canon 650D with 50mm 1.8 lens. I realized that this lens in practice has a very small focal depth at an open aperture. You fool, I'll know now.
    It's a pity only after the wedding I found your site so it would be better for a friend to take a photo.
    I sit reading your site. Thank you very much!!!!! On Saturday corporate party !!! There I will come off on shooting moments of drunk employees :))))))))))))))))

  • Valery

    Arkady, thank you very much for your work !!!! It is necessary to shoot the first wedding in a week !!! Your material really helped to make a choice!

  • ale

    Hello! I also do not like photographers in the registry office, and even more so I never thought that I would become one, but I had to. But I am a very loyal photographer, our registry office keeps the mark and never imposes photo services, therefore a large influx of newlyweds. I have a Canon 550D, which faithfully served me two years of periodic full-fledged wedding photography, but for almost a year now I’ve been photographing at the registry office for almost a year. And I want to improve the quality. I have an 18-55 whale lens and a fifty-fifty lens 1,4. I do not know what to take a new lens or a new camera. There is no time to change lenses during the ceremony. And my fifty dollars generally rests, because you have to go a long distance with him and the room is small, and guests often run ahead with their cameras and phones (do not scold them for this !. As with all registry offices, we do not have much lighting. Please help with advice.

    • anonym

      Buy a flash of at least 430EX and 17-55 2,8

  • Alexey

    Arkady hello! Tell me, is it realistic (or rather to say whether it is convenient) to rent a wedding on a crop with purely fixes 35 1.8 and 50 1.8, with each optics being worn on a separate camera D3100 and D7000, respectively? Although in the arsenal there is also a whale 18-105 and 85 1.8. Thanks in advance for the comment to all who responded!

    • Arkady Shapoval

      Everything is absolutely real, you just need to get a hold of it. I would use 35 in conjunction with 85mm

  • olexіy

    grafted into me nikon d7000 є kit 18-105, 85. 1,8 which please for a report in the middle think 35mm….

  • Ruslan

    Good day, I have a d7000, they ask to film how the newlyweds are signing, I don't even know what to shoot…. I have a 50mm 1.8, and a whale, well, a 70-300 sigma (about there aperture… ..seam!) tell me what? )

  • Olya

    I want to have fun in my girlfriend’s plan to practice (I’ll like another photographer to write a professional). Tell me what you really want to do with a photo on Nikon D3100 with a 50mm lens f / 1.8 for free

    • Novel

      The whale will be good in "narrow" places where you need to capture more space in the frame, while 50 / 1.8 is useful for staged shots and focusing attention on details ....

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