The wedding day is probably one of the best memories for people to want to hold on to And digital wedding photography has changed how wedding photographers can carry out this task ensuring the day is captured on for ever. Couples often have a DVD made as well so that even more of the happy occasion is captured.
Most wedding photographers have assistants to help them create beautiful wedding albums that will be oh so memorable but if you yourself want to take pictures of a friend’s wedding, who will help you? Here are some tips if you find yourself at a friend or relations wedding taking photos with your digital camera.
First, if you want to take a picture of the couple or any other guest, make sure that the background is good and the shot will not be too crowded. Don’t worry too much if you can’t get a full body shot of the couple, you can get around this by taking a head and shoulder shot of them which will also keep the photo from being to cluttered.
Spectacled guests can be a problem as glare from their glasses obscures their eyes and reflects back at the camera. So you could ask them to take their glasses off for the photo, or to turn there heads to the side. To avoid people in the picture coming out dark when the sunlight is behind them, position them where you are taking the photo with the sun behind you.
Where possible, try to capture shots that look to be of an unstaged nature as these tend to look very natural when viewed later; one way to do this is to use the cameras optical zoom and catch them unawares. Allways be ready for the next digital wedding photograph because you can’t ask people to repeat those unforgettable moments that everybody wants to see again and again.
Probably the most important thing to remember with digital cameras is to have plenty of memory in your camera plus fresh batteries and the best way to ensure this is to always carry spares. For 6 mega pixel cameras and up, the absolute bare minimum should be a 1 gigabyte card, preferably 2 gigabytes and always use the highest resolution your camera can manage if the images are to be printed.
If you going to have the picture blown up so you can make poster size photos, make sure your digital cameras resolution is set to maximum pixel. To do this you would want to save the the images to your computer or disk where you can print them or create the types of photos you want later.
Previous generations have grown up in days where film and exposure, and old styles of taking photos were the height of technology, and todays young people do not have a clue to those old techniques, so to them the advent of superior digital photography for taking wedding photograps is nothing super spectacular, if they only knew how good they have it.