Weddings

An Actual Wedding Day Workshop

I attended a photography workshop recently here by a renowned local wedding photographer in town. It was supposed to be a two day events but the organizer decided to cancel the Day 1 workshop without actually giving the reason why. I was really looking forward for Day 1 because the guy was supposed to share his knowledge on the business side of the wedding industry. I really need to know the secrets and sources these wedding photographers have. Like, how do they do their costing, packages and where do they get their printings done! There is no short cut to success. If I have been into the business for a while, I would eventually discover them myself. The big question is when will that be? In 5 years? Maybe more? What!? I can’t wait that long!! I was a bit disappointed that Day 1 was canceled.

However, Day 2 was interesting. I learned a few new things on what to expect on an actual wedding day, how to prepare yourself, the gears you should bring along and learned a few tricks on the camera settings too. Cool! Beside that a practical on how to shoot subjects with only natural light. It was quite tricky especially shooting against very bright background. The camera metering won’t do you any good here, its all trial and error for me to get the right settings.

: See what I mean. The background had to be overexposed to expose the subject. This creates a glowing effect on the guy’s head which I don’t like. I’m gonna avoid shooting against bright background if I can.

So, what I did was I increased the contrast and reduced the brightness in my camera settings. By doing so helped decreased the glowing effect on the subject a bit. Here are some photos I took during the workshop.

: Everyone were crowding around the model to get a good angle. I just stood behind and take this shot. It was like she was a famous person with the crowd framing her.

: Sometime you need to stage a scene and get a shot like this.

: I think this is what they called details shot!?

: I never thought available light can be so nice. Before this I almost believe flashes & strobes are the only way.

: This was hard because of the bright background. I changed my camera setting by increasing the contrast and reducing the brightness to get this shot. This will at least kill the foggy white glow around the subjects.