Wedding Photography Tips - Taking Advice on Techniques

Wedding photography tips are as varied as weddings themselves. You can now seek tips and advice from numerous sources on the internet.

However please be careful who you take advice from.

Some points to look for before taking advice.

Check that the person giving the advice has practical experience of successful wedding photography and hasn't just read about it or been commissioned to shoot just a few weddings.

Look through photographer's websites, in particular look at their wedding galleries. Do you like the shots? Go by your own gut feeling. In wedding photography it's important that you are comfortable taking the types of shots that you will be marketing.

Having done this you should decide on your preferred style and only then proceed to look for tips and advice.

The main skills and abilities that you need to look for tips and advice on are: -

1. Posing

2. Controlling groups of people

3. Marketing your photography

4. Presenting your photography

5. Camera technique

Camera technique, however, is not something that you should be lacking in to start! When I say look for advice on techniques, I mean advanced technique. Before you even consider shooting a wedding you must be very comfortable with all basic technique, from exposure, flash, lighting, posing and getting on with people. Only once you have these basic skills should you seek further advice from more advanced photographers.

Some of the forums on the web are ok for advice, however once again check the amount of experience that the person giving it has, and the style they follow.

Take advice and tips from others but don't ever believe it until you've tried it yourself! Often people give advice and it is not until you have tried it you realise that you either misinterpreted what they said, or their advice was bad in the first place!

So, before trying any new tips at a wedding make sure you practice first until you are comfortable with the tip and perhaps even adapted it a bit to suit your own style of photography.

Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have written a comprehensive guide on wedding and group photography.

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Bobby is a photographer and author. He has been commissioned to shoot thousands of events, including weddings.