Sarah Dean Wedding 02/07/2011

Here are a couple of shots from a wedding I photographed back in July. I have to thank my cousin and god mother Natalie (and maid of honour) for mentioning me to Sarah, or else I wouldn’t have ever got this job.

Luckily it was a gorgeous day for the guests at the wedding, but when the sun is so bright it sucks a bit for the person taking the photos because you tend to get a lot of squinty faces in the photos.

Now I wouldn’t say that this is some of my strongest work, and I think its probably due to the fact that I don’t enjoy wedding photography and I guess it shows in my imagery. But its good to experience it a couple of times and to know how to shoot in different lighting zones. Once you go inside the church after taking images you need to adjust your iso, shutter and aperture pretty fast, and its probably best if you have a flash gun and a couple of decent lenses. My kit failed me that day, with my standard lens still broken from Tenerife and a student budget and even with 3 jobs at the time I still couldn’t afford a replacement because the whole tenerife experience knocked me back about 600-700£ plus I lost a months worth of wages! Oh and also take a couple of memory cards too, sometimes you can get snap happy.

But yeah these are the “best” out of the 800+ photos of the day. And yes I know its about quality not quantity but when you are standing around as a photographer at a wedding waiting for something to happen you feel awkward when people look at you and you aren’t taking any photos so I just kept shooting and deleting the naff ones along the way.

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