Shooting my first wedding next month. I made it very clear that I am not a professional. I do photography as a hobby, but looking to get into the wedding space. Its a small wedding and the most important photos to them are photos with their JP and family group photos. Charging $100 per hour. $500 for 5 hours. They are super excited and say that I am exactly what they are looking for. Hope all goes well.
I am a landscape and travel photographer. I have been asked to photograph a wedding which is making me slightly nervous. This video has been really helpful as a start point for thinking through the key aspects. Thank you
This helps a lot!! Thank you! I’m going to do a second wedding photo shoot and I’m nervous. I needed tips! My first wedding shoot was a year ago! This feels like a first time again!
Always great advise Pye, thank you! If I could add a #11 it would be to never be afraid to ask someone to “do something again.” The number of moments I miss at every wedding is pretty high, but I decrease it when I ask my couple or anyone else to do something again if I missed the shot.
I've been years in photography.But there's so much in this video need to know about more.I had said no to Wedding photography cause I was afraid.But this video has taught me something to do.Thank you for this video.😌
So many useful tips in just a short amount of time. Anyone on the fence about Slr Lounge education… the information Pye shares is just a taste of what you can learn or even be reminded about. Also thank you Adorama for having such amazing educators sharing their knowledge. 🙏🏻😁
I use to shoot weddings back in the film days. I always had to bring multiple cameras and flashes because there was only 1 roll of film in a camera. Love that today we have dual card slots! No more 36 exposure limitations today! Autofocus! ETTL flashes! So much easier and now can focus more on the creative side of the wedding. Things have sure improved for wedding photographers today!
There is so much I agree with in this video. I was trained in a lot of the same ways you are telling everyone. This is such good advice and such a good reminder to keep in mind no matter who you are. I explained the value example from the beginning to so many people and they always say I’m “short selling” when I see it as a resume builder. I’ve shot 100’s of events, but not weddings, I need to be established as a wedding photographer before I can charge what I am worth. This is such a positive and well spoken video
Just been asked by a collegue to photograph her wedding ... scared but honoured to do it ... havnt said yes yet though but I am seriously concidering it and videos like yours help me
This is a life saver for me! One of my sister's friend's is having a wedding in 4 days and their photographer canceled today. I was asked a few minutes ago to do them since I take photos occasionally
That last tip I would have never thought of! I’ve been asked by many to shoot their wedding because of my landscape, city, macro photography and I was always too nervous. This is definitely how I will approach it next time I’m asked!
I done my first wedding yesterday, other than the 3 mist important family shots, i let the brides (lesibian wedding) guide how they wanted that photoshoot as i said it their day 😍
Great advice which I most definitely needed as I have been asked to shoot a friends wedding. I am doing all my research on youtube to make sure I get some thing right.
So many great tips as always I quite literally stop what I'm doing to watch your videos because of how much I value your content! Please keep it up :-)
How'd it go bro? Ive been shooting for around 10 years as well, mainly landscapes and basic portraits, lookin into weddings asap! Cheers mate hope it went well :)
I've been hired to shoot a wedding. the person who hired me has been following my photography growth ( not even a full year experience) and has seen what im capable of. im more of a videographer than a photographer. but, they like my style. i only have a few outdoor car and motorcycle events under my belt and i charged 2k simply because just shooting and cutting... is two things. color grading is another. and then creating a final video of the day can take a few days depending on how much you shoot. and i OVER SHOOT! i have a nikon D3200 wit a 24mm (36mm on my crop sensor) Nikkor vintage lens and i have a 35mm kit lens which is a 52mm on my crop sensor! and i feel confident due to the fact that they just want me to shoot exactly how i already shoot! in essence, they are hiring me for my style more than their fantasy. thank you for this video it does help little guys still starting out.
I really love what you do and how you teach your craft. Also like your t-shirt by the way, the complete set of Visual-Flow have become my main presets for Lr.
Ya that my reasoning I take a lot of indoor photos but I've never photographed a wedding and now I have two small intimate outdoor wedding coming up..but I don't charge anything because it's a cousin and I was doing them a favor I do like my pictures but am very new to weddings so I've been doing tons of research thanks for the tips
i charged $180 for a family members wedding photoshoot. and she only payed $100. which $180 is extremely cheap. and I gave her 50 photos, and edited all of them, she also loved them and so did her family.
shooting my 1st charged wedding in october, im a student and i am friends with the clients and aware of their financial situations so I charged £200. Quite nervous but im sure itll be good!
Pye 1 question I'm in Australia & 2nd shooters are full time employees to you all other are booking &doing their own weddings. I was building a fairly strong wedding photography business back in the film days and have just started to come back shooting weddings again now getting the hang of digital I'm using d850 d750 as back up and cannon f1 & t90 for my film shots so it's very hard for 2nd shooter I have my wife who is good with a camera doing some secondary shooting using d750 so can you please tell me how do I get around this 2nd shooter is what I'm doing acceptable LOVE YOUR WORK LOVE YOUR VIDEOS YOU ARE AWSOME IF EVER IN BRISBANE PLZ CONTACT WOULD LOVE LOVE LOVE TO TO DO A Training session with you you are sooooo good I. One of your biggest fans Last thing how long dose getting use to digital from film take my biggest thing is iso from digital from film iso
I narrowly pulled off my first wedding last week. Client just left a stellar review today. I thought I was ready for any problem…but I wasn’t. 1. Unless you absolutely must, avoid silent shutter mode. Nearby LEDs caused slight orange bars/color banding during the ceremony. I was completely unaware that this was a thing. I quickly caught it and was able to correct in post, but I wish I had known about it ahead of time. If you must use silent photography, get a tripod and shoot at 1/00s or under to minimize or avoid banding. When I noticed the orange bars on my ceremony photos while it was occurring I nearly shit myself. 2. Unless you know your flash supports HSS, make sure to cap your shutter speed with flash at 1/200s. If faster and your flash doesn’t support shutter speeds beyond that, you can get curtain drag where half of the sensor is dark. Happened to me; I quickly switched out the lens to stop the issue. I was panicked during my shoot but I’m lucky it still turned out okay. Best of luck.
ive been feeling so anxious since my first wedding is coming up and this video really helped me to calm down and feel more secure. Your voice is so soothing :) Gained a new subscriber here!
I may be a bit late but I wish you all the best photographing at your first wedding! Please let me know how it goes/went! I have mine my first wedding in September. Looking for any advice!
Hey, I will be shooting my very first wedding in a few weeks. Currently, I own a full-frame camera with a 24-70mm f/2.8 lens, a 70-200mm f/4 lens, a 50mm f/1.8 lens, and an APS-C camera with almost the same lenses, except for an ultra-wide-angle lens. I was thinking about renting an 85mm f/1.4 lens. Do you think it is necessary, or will I be fine with my current gear?
Love your tips. They sound like common sense but we know CS is dearly missing these days. More importantly, they are practical insights and once you explained them, it's obvious you know your stuff. I'm a "professional enthusiast" (LOL, ie... enthusiast all my life) and had been to one particular wedding where I got so involved in taking snaps on my iPhone that after the wedding, the "real pros" when put on the hot seat by the client for not delivering enough good shots told them "there was this one particular guest - ME! - wielding his iPhone all over the place" who blocked most of their shots/videos. When this was brought to my attention, I didn't protest at all as the client was pretty cross with the whole thing. But I've been a practising enthusiast - errrr, pro enthusiast - long enough to know that's a lame excuse from anyone purporting to be a pro wedding photographer. If I'd been in the way, why didn't these pros said anything (DIRECT the situation, per your Tip number 10) until they came up short with their client? Is it a prerequisite for "pros" to have zero situational awareness at a wedding gig?
I WOULD LOVE TO USE FLASH FOR MY PHOTOS I HAVE a SONY a7IV paird wITH A SIGMA 24-70@ 2.8 ALSO SIGMA 85MM1.4 AND I JUST GOT INTO THE PHOTO AND VIDEO WORLD ,I HAVENT FIND ANY VIDEO THAT ACTUALLY TEACH ABOUT IT . FLASH SETTING HOW TO.?
So much to keep in mind. Then there's the whole aspect of video recording. // Stupid question: Is it true that we always need a second shooter - to capture the moment when the couple leaves the altar - first time as a couple? Or is this passe these days?
Excellent tips and love the idea of hiring a pro as a second shooter. Would it be as beneficial to offer your services to a Pro, preferably outside your planned area of focusing your business, for a low cost or free just to get some time watching the way they work the job?
Shooting my first wedding next month. I made it very clear that I am not a professional. I do photography as a hobby, but looking to get into the wedding space. Its a small wedding and the most important photos to them are photos with their JP and family group photos. Charging $100 per hour. $500 for 5 hours. They are super excited and say that I am exactly what they are looking for. Hope all goes well.
Howd it go??? @kylecouture1917
day 1 of asking how it went
Yeaman how did it go
Also waiting for the answer.
me too ^
I am a landscape and travel photographer. I have been asked to photograph a wedding which is making me slightly nervous. This video has been really helpful as a start point for thinking through the key aspects. Thank you
How did it go?
10+ years into wedding photography and still loving your educational videos as year one! Thanks Pye!
This helps a lot!! Thank you! I’m going to do a second wedding photo shoot and I’m nervous. I needed tips! My first wedding shoot was a year ago! This feels like a first time again!
How did it go?
Always great advise Pye, thank you! If I could add a #11 it would be to never be afraid to ask someone to “do something again.” The number of moments I miss at every wedding is pretty high, but I decrease it when I ask my couple or anyone else to do something again if I missed the shot.
just don't ask them to do too many things again
you are so right
Great Tips - even for non beginners.
I totally agree
Thank you, really like your # 10 Tip.
Trying to get into weddings photography, what lens do you recommend work the best ?
pye taught me so much in the past.
watching this reminds me how valuable his videos!
I've been years in photography.But there's so much in this video need to know about more.I had said no to Wedding photography cause I was afraid.But this video has taught me something to do.Thank you for this video.😌
Excellent tips! I shot my first wedding recently and it was such a stressful experience. Wish I’d been able to watch this first!
How did it go?
So many useful tips in just a short amount of time. Anyone on the fence about Slr Lounge education… the information Pye shares is just a taste of what you can learn or even be reminded about. Also thank you Adorama for having such amazing educators sharing their knowledge. 🙏🏻😁
I use to shoot weddings back in the film days. I always had to bring multiple cameras and flashes because there was only 1 roll of film in a camera. Love that today we have dual card slots! No more 36 exposure limitations today! Autofocus! ETTL flashes! So much easier and now can focus more on the creative side of the wedding. Things have sure improved for wedding photographers today!
I have been in photography for 15 years I never knew this technique
There is so much I agree with in this video. I was trained in a lot of the same ways you are telling everyone. This is such good advice and such a good reminder to keep in mind no matter who you are. I explained the value example from the beginning to so many people and they always say I’m “short selling” when I see it as a resume builder. I’ve shot 100’s of events, but not weddings, I need to be established as a wedding photographer before I can charge what I am worth. This is such a positive and well spoken video
Just been asked by a collegue to photograph her wedding ... scared but honoured to do it ... havnt said yes yet though but I am seriously concidering it and videos like yours help me
Pye Great as always .
Absolute gold. Thank you friend. Thank you Adorama!!!
Honestly... this was super helpful and you gained a follower!! Thank you for posting this!
Best tips ever! After shooting for 10 years its all still relevant! Ty ❤
Really loved this video! Thank you for all the advice! Will be back to watch some more!
This is a life saver for me! One of my sister's friend's is having a wedding in 4 days and their photographer canceled today. I was asked a few minutes ago to do them since I take photos occasionally
Loved it, very informative. Thank you.
Welcome!
Thank you for this
Shooting my third wedding next week and going through getting some refreshers. I think the wide, medium and tight is a great tip!
How did it go?
That last tip I would have never thought of! I’ve been asked by many to shoot their wedding because of my landscape, city, macro photography and I was always too nervous. This is definitely how I will approach it next time I’m asked!
Brilliant video..! Seriously recommend this to any level of photographer - thank you.
Thank you so much for all your tips, really helpful i too am shooting my first wedding next week.
I am shooting my first wedding tomorrow and I’m nervous for it. I took notes! thank you so much
Oh I hope it went well! I have my first wedding in September. Do you have any advice on top of this video?
How did you do ?
I wasn't ready for tip #1 and 2. This man knows what he is saying. Man I cannot pay you or say thanks enough.
I love this video! I'm going to be taking classes and you just took a little bit of my anxiety away
Awesome video, man! Thank you!
Very well presented, the points are spot on! Thanks a lot! 🎉
Wow, you were top of the search for a reason. Thanks for sharing.
Great video man! Thank you so much!
I done my first wedding yesterday, other than the 3 mist important family shots, i let the brides (lesibian wedding) guide how they wanted that photoshoot as i said it their day 😍
Wow this was a great well made video with awesome tips...Thank you for making this video
Appreciate the comment! =)
This video was packed with so much good content, I took lots of notes lol
Thank you so much for these amazong tips. Hugs from Puerto Rico
Great advice which I most definitely needed as I have been asked to shoot a friends wedding. I am doing all my research on youtube to make sure I get some thing right.
great advice which is not covered in many wedding photography videos. thanks
So many great tips as always I quite literally stop what I'm doing to watch your videos because of how much I value your content! Please keep it up :-)
Great tips. I wouldn't have thought of the ones on the SD cards on my own.
Sixteen years in for us and great advice.
Such great advice as with all of your videos. I definitely appreciate how hiring an experienced second shooter can help us grow
THANK YOU ADORAMA
Great tips! Thank you. My daughters friend wants to start a wedding photography business, this info will be helpful for her.
Glad it's helpful!
All good tips but #8 was really helpful. Gonna shoot my first wedding today :D
How did it go?
I love everything Pye!!!
Fantastic tips. Thank you!!!
Thanks for the tips… definitely learn a lot from this video…
I appreciate this video! I am shooting my first wedding and it is two weddings!
Great video, Pye.
Thanks I enjoy your teaching
Superb video, great points and well communicated. Thank you
Thank you so much. I am just starting out in the photography business and this is just wonderful.
Sure thing!
Awesome tips.. and as always great content covered in a simplified manner..
THANKS FOR THE TIPS
Great video!! Useful tips!! Thank you for taking the time.
ALWAYS beauty advise from you
Great tips, I've been shooting for 2½ years now and this tip will help me alot
Awesome! Keep it up!
I got my first wedding this month. I’m an experienced photographer but still a little nervous. This helped a lot, thank you!
How'd it go bro? Ive been shooting for around 10 years as well, mainly landscapes and basic portraits, lookin into weddings asap! Cheers mate hope it went well :)
Amazing and useful tips! Thank you!
Great Advice for newbies. 👏👏👏
Thank you so very much🙏💕
Makes a lot of sense everything
Damn.. those were SOLID tips! Thank you!
Great advice, excellently presented...
Thank you!
Hi Thankyou For your advice, I liked your video Just doing my first wedding this year. From- Sean
I've been hired to shoot a wedding. the person who hired me has been following my photography growth ( not even a full year experience) and has seen what im capable of. im more of a videographer than a photographer. but, they like my style. i only have a few outdoor car and motorcycle events under my belt and i charged 2k simply because just shooting and cutting... is two things. color grading is another. and then creating a final video of the day can take a few days depending on how much you shoot. and i OVER SHOOT! i have a nikon D3200 wit a 24mm (36mm on my crop sensor) Nikkor vintage lens and i have a 35mm kit lens which is a 52mm on my crop sensor! and i feel confident due to the fact that they just want me to shoot exactly how i already shoot! in essence, they are hiring me for my style more than their fantasy. thank you for this video it does help little guys still starting out.
thanks for the tips
Great tips!
Thanks for all the advice it was grate
I really love what you do and how you teach your craft. Also like your t-shirt by the way, the complete set of Visual-Flow have become my main presets for Lr.
Ya that my reasoning I take a lot of indoor photos but I've never photographed a wedding and now I have two small intimate outdoor wedding coming up..but I don't charge anything because it's a cousin and I was doing them a favor I do like my pictures but am very new to weddings so I've been doing tons of research thanks for the tips
Thank you so much, it help me
A great educator
i charged $180 for a family members wedding photoshoot. and she only payed $100. which $180 is extremely cheap. and I gave her 50 photos, and edited all of them, she also loved them and so did her family.
shooting my 1st charged wedding in october, im a student and i am friends with the clients and aware of their financial situations so I charged £200. Quite nervous but im sure itll be good!
Great video..thanks 👍
Great advice👍
this is productive information
You are an excelent educator 💪
Thank you
sir in wedding photography you use manual mode or aperture?
awesome Info. thanks
Thankyou, have been photographing for a while, first wedding shortly. I have a cannon 5D mark iv hope this is okay...
very useful thank you vm!
good job
Pye 1 question I'm in Australia & 2nd shooters are full time employees to you all other are booking &doing their own weddings. I was building a fairly strong wedding photography business back in the film days and have just started to come back shooting weddings again now getting the hang of digital I'm using d850 d750 as back up and cannon f1 & t90 for my film shots so it's very hard for 2nd shooter I have my wife who is good with a camera doing some secondary shooting using d750 so can you please tell me how do I get around this 2nd shooter is what I'm doing acceptable
LOVE YOUR WORK LOVE YOUR VIDEOS YOU ARE AWSOME IF EVER IN BRISBANE PLZ CONTACT WOULD LOVE LOVE LOVE TO TO DO A Training session with you you are sooooo good I. One of your biggest fans
Last thing how long dose getting use to digital from film take my biggest thing is iso from digital from film iso
I narrowly pulled off my first wedding last week. Client just left a stellar review today. I thought I was ready for any problem…but I wasn’t.
1. Unless you absolutely must, avoid silent shutter mode. Nearby LEDs caused slight orange bars/color banding during the ceremony. I was completely unaware that this was a thing. I quickly caught it and was able to correct in post, but I wish I had known about it ahead of time. If you must use silent photography, get a tripod and shoot at 1/00s or under to minimize or avoid banding. When I noticed the orange bars on my ceremony photos while it was occurring I nearly shit myself.
2. Unless you know your flash supports HSS, make sure to cap your shutter speed with flash at 1/200s. If faster and your flash doesn’t support shutter speeds beyond that, you can get curtain drag where half of the sensor is dark. Happened to me; I quickly switched out the lens to stop the issue.
I was panicked during my shoot but I’m lucky it still turned out okay. Best of luck.
Thxs for your advices!
ive been feeling so anxious since my first wedding is coming up and this video really helped me to calm down and feel more secure. Your voice is so soothing :) Gained a new subscriber here!
I may be a bit late but I wish you all the best photographing at your first wedding! Please let me know how it goes/went! I have mine my first wedding in September. Looking for any advice!
@@lewishall2901may be a little late aswell, but how did it go 😁
Do you advise for the ceremony to go with a monopod/tripod or stay on my gimbal the whole time for my first wedding?
brilliant!
Thank you! I loved your video and I learned a lot. I liked it and shared it and posted a comment, hoping this will help you back ;)
Great Content as usual. No fluff. The only sad thing is that we can’t hire Pye for $500 as a second shooter. 😂
Hey, I will be shooting my very first wedding in a few weeks. Currently, I own a full-frame camera with a 24-70mm f/2.8 lens, a 70-200mm f/4 lens, a 50mm f/1.8 lens, and an APS-C camera with almost the same lenses, except for an ultra-wide-angle lens. I was thinking about renting an 85mm f/1.4 lens. Do you think it is necessary, or will I be fine with my current gear?
Great video
Love your tips. They sound like common sense but we know CS is dearly missing these days. More importantly, they are practical insights and once you explained them, it's obvious you know your stuff.
I'm a "professional enthusiast" (LOL, ie... enthusiast all my life) and had been to one particular wedding where I got so involved in taking snaps on my iPhone that after the wedding, the "real pros" when put on the hot seat by the client for not delivering enough good shots told them "there was this one particular guest - ME! - wielding his iPhone all over the place" who blocked most of their shots/videos. When this was brought to my attention, I didn't protest at all as the client was pretty cross with the whole thing. But I've been a practising enthusiast - errrr, pro enthusiast - long enough to know that's a lame excuse from anyone purporting to be a pro wedding photographer. If I'd been in the way, why didn't these pros said anything (DIRECT the situation, per your Tip number 10) until they came up short with their client? Is it a prerequisite for "pros" to have zero situational awareness at a wedding gig?
I WOULD LOVE TO USE FLASH FOR MY PHOTOS I HAVE a SONY a7IV paird wITH A SIGMA 24-70@ 2.8 ALSO SIGMA 85MM1.4 AND I JUST GOT INTO THE PHOTO AND VIDEO WORLD ,I HAVENT FIND ANY VIDEO THAT ACTUALLY TEACH ABOUT IT . FLASH SETTING HOW TO.?
So much to keep in mind. Then there's the whole aspect of video recording. // Stupid question: Is it true that we always need a second shooter - to capture the moment when the couple leaves the altar - first time as a couple? Or is this passe these days?
Excellent tips and love the idea of hiring a pro as a second shooter. Would it be as beneficial to offer your services to a Pro, preferably outside your planned area of focusing your business, for a low cost or free just to get some time watching the way they work the job?
What percentage of images should I be shooting vertical - my commercial work is nearly 100% vertical nowadays