| This article is aimed at digital wedding photographers | | | | reason around the time of the kiss I now tend to go |
| Not everybody notices the difference between "so | | | | for a slightly faster shutter speed. |
| so" wedding photography and great wedding | | | | 3.) Forgetting to empty your memory card |
| photography, but they will notice if you make one of | | | | The wedding is just getting started and you are |
| these goofs. | | | | shooting the before wedding portraits. Happily clicking |
| Use this list a checklist that you go through in | | | | away knowing you have a huge 16 GB memory card |
| preparation for each wedding. Mistakes are listed | | | | that holds hundreds of full resolution RAW images. |
| from most serious to least serious. | | | | Suddenly your camera freezes, you look down and |
| 1.) Letting your battery run out, and not having a | | | | see the card is full, how could this be! You forgot to |
| spare. | | | | delete the last wedding's photos from your card, and |
| If this happens that's it. The rest of the wedding is | | | | you now have important new photos on the card so |
| over for you. For that reason I would consider it the | | | | you can't just format it. You sit there desperately |
| worst goof and to be avoided at all costs. Always | | | | trying to delete old photos from the card whiles six |
| have a spare battery and always charge all your | | | | wedding guests watch you looking worried and |
| batteries before each shoot. | | | | confused. |
| 2.) Missing the kiss | | | | 4.) Showing up late |
| This is generally considered the most important shot | | | | It doesn't matter how good your photography is, if |
| at any wedding. You only get one chance to get the | | | | you show up late it's going to make you look |
| kiss and there usually won't be a lot of warning. | | | | unprofessional. Allow plenty of extra travel time, and |
| There seems to be very little consistency in the | | | | plan to be 20 minutes early. If you get lost easily |
| wedding ceremonies I have been to, and the kiss | | | | consider buying a GPS, compared to the rest of your |
| seems to happen at a different time each wedding. | | | | photography equipment this probably won't be a |
| Have your camera set correctly and stay alert. One | | | | huge investment. |
| problem I have had is that to catch the kiss I am | | | | 5.) Calling the Father of the Bride the Grandpa |
| forced to focus and frame the shot so fast that my | | | | This is more funny to look back on then when it is |
| image stabilization does not have time to kick in, and | | | | actually happening to you. |
| I have ended up with a slightly soft shot. For this | | | | |