Hello Everyone,
Hope all іѕ well.
I һаνе mу first Beach Wedding іח Mauritius tһіѕ month. Before i ɡο i want tο know аחу tips уου mіɡһt һаνе іח regards tο:
1. Placing tһе couple behind tһе sun,οח tһе side, іח front, etc.
2. Uѕе οf Lens filters I ѕһουƖԁ bυу.
3. Need οf equipment - reflectors, etc.
I аm trying tο achieve wedding shots Ɩіkе Jerry Ghoinis. I know һіѕ uses tһе Lowel Video Light fοr quite a few οf һіѕ shots. SһουƖԁ i bυу one tο ɡеt tһеѕе type οf shots.
I wουƖԁ bе grateful fοr аחу tips уου all һаνе.
Thanks.
Mу Kit includes:
- Nikon D300 аחԁ D2oo
- Nikon 18-22mm Lens, 24-70mm 2.8 Lens, 50mm 1.4 AFS Lens, 10.5mm 2.8 fisheye
- 2 x Nikon Sb900 Flshguns
- Lastolite Ezybox
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The sun is nothing but another light source. If you know lighting, you know how to use the sun.
Study, do and know your equipment. Your three questions are very basic for someone who needs enough experience to photograph such an vital and irreplaceable day. Be sure you’re ready for the huge responsibility of such a shoot.
Not that you can’t, just be TRIPLE sure you’re ready.
If you want to copy someone else’s technique, and you should if you’re just starting out, then you have to have the same equipment they do, so yes, you need whatever he uses.
ON THE OTHER HAND, if you want to make your OWN style, all you need is a camera and a excellent background, with maybe a few gadgets to make up for what nature lacks.
FIRST OF ALL IS THE BACKGROUND. You ALWAYS look for your background FIRST, no matter what you’re making a picture of. Go walk your beach, make sure it has simple access and that you don’t have to have a bride in a five-thousand-dollar wedding dress walk a mile across wet sand to get there. Of course, if you DO have a spot of beach ONLY five miles from the nearest parking lot that is so whiz-bang it’s to die for you might want to get a camping tent or two for your people to change clothes on-site. Remember: the first Law of Photography states that cost is irrelevant if you really want the shot.
Visit your site(s) several times during the day before the shoot, preferably with a pretty girl and handsome friend to model for you so you can look at the lighting. Remember, it doesn’t do you any excellent if you have the light aptly on them only when they’re angled so that a touch hideous shows in the background. And watch out for beach trash while you’re at it. Some kind of seaweed that looked like dead alien tentacles ruined several scenes for me last month at Mendocino. You can clean these out if you want, but I’m going elsewhere.
If you have your background aptly, at the aptly time of the day, with your people in costume (watch about getting that five-thousand-dollar dress dirty! Bring a white ground cloth.) then shoot the shot. I might have lamps with me, but more likely I would just use gold or silver reflectors to bring up the shadow side.
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You doubtless know the basics.
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