Wedding photography – how to get started

Posted on January 14, 2015 by ShutterBug

Wedding photography - how to get started

How to get experience and crack the industry – a special part 8 of the ‘How to Shoot a Wedding’ series – by popular demand. Video shot on D5100: http://goo.g…
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25 Responses to Wedding photography – how to get started

  1. irlrp says:
    January 14, 2015 at 9:34 pm

    Yeah it’s nice to at least, for once, hear something else than “you need a
    35mm, a 85mm, 3 flashes, blablablablabla” and hear some realistic stuff…
    Thanks.

  2. Chris Issac says:
    January 14, 2015 at 10:07 pm

    This is great information! Thanks a lot Matt

  3. rezjrprod says:
    January 14, 2015 at 10:43 pm

    with that being said..Ill fly down and ill bring my point and shoot…cant
    I be your second? LOL…so true…here in LA its REALLLLLLY bad everyone
    with a camera thinks they know what they are doing…photography business
    is too watered down here…

  4. Captain Jaffa says:
    January 14, 2015 at 10:45 pm

    You know you don’t iron that kind of shirts.. -_-

  5. Andrew Watson says:
    January 14, 2015 at 11:20 pm

    Despite all the negative comments, I thought this was excellent advice
    Matt. I have work colleague getting married shortly and although not
    officially attending the wedding, she has invited me to take photos.
    However, I don’t want to get in the way and I feel out of courtesy, should
    contact her photographer. Would you agree?

  6. silversurfer5400 says:
    January 14, 2015 at 11:41 pm

    thanks for the info! good stuff on a side note i would iron that shirt
    before you go out on a wedding representing your brand.

  7. Ádám Horváth says:
    January 14, 2015 at 11:49 pm

    That’s a great series, thanks for sharing your thoughts! A further episode
    could be around the most common type of poses for the posed photographs.

  8. lilcossie says:
    January 15, 2015 at 12:07 am

    Sorry they turned you down Matt.

  9. Amarjit Matharu says:
    January 15, 2015 at 12:59 am

    have you ever messed up a wedding

  10. jameslcr says:
    January 15, 2015 at 1:35 am

    @BillybobSpangleberry i agree i have a wedding in june im doing the full
    day for £300 the couple dont want an album either they just want a disc so
    they can print the images at a supermarket lol,like you say not everyone is
    willg or can afford to pay thousands for a photographer

  11. Marvin Zapanta says:
    January 15, 2015 at 1:57 am

    arrogant!!! Indeed……

  12. Ricardo Clark says:
    January 15, 2015 at 2:18 am

    I am a amateur photographer and listening to you say these things makes me
    realize that if I want to become better I have to rely on myself. Not
    anyone else. If I want to be great at what Im doing, then I need to put in
    the hard time, work, and research that it takes for myself.

  13. Kathy Fernandez says:
    January 15, 2015 at 2:33 am

    Good info Matt. I’m going along to my second weeding in a couple of weeks
    with the same photographer, to get more experience. I have known the
    photographer for a long time and she is happy to have me along. I am always
    very mindful that I am representing her brand while I am there. Your video
    Offers some good insight!

  14. Matt Granger says:
    January 15, 2015 at 3:16 am

    my pleasure

  15. Matt Granger says:
    January 15, 2015 at 3:36 am

    excellent point.

  16. funincluded says:
    January 15, 2015 at 3:52 am

    I hadn’t thought about those negative aspects of being there for free
    before, thanks Matt!

  18. Alexander Rafailan says:
    January 15, 2015 at 4:15 am

    Wow someone is arrogant. I’m sure you were not born with experience as
    well. Had to start somewhere right. I just wasted 9min of my life in
    listening to some nonsense!!!!!

  19. Akshay Sharma says:
    January 15, 2015 at 5:07 am

    I think this is the best example of how to get your point across without
    upsetting someone (anyone!). Yes, I absorbed everything you said about
    photography, but how you said it was what impressed me most. In my job as
    head of Europe, Middle East and Africa in my division a large global bank,
    I often see people forgetting to be polite. Learnt a lot from this short
    video. Thanks for reminding me.

  20. BigBadJohn1528 says:
    January 15, 2015 at 5:27 am

    Well said Matt, i agree with every thing you said. There are too many
    people buying entry level camera’s and think they know what they are doing.
    My cousin paid a girl to do her wedding so that i could enjoy it and not
    have to work, so i did a few photo’s and left the paid so called
    Photographer to do her job. When i seen the images and shot in full
    sunlight and not using flash and the exif data the camera was in Auto mode.
    Cheers John

  21. RocketMyDog1 says:
    January 15, 2015 at 5:41 am

    Lighten up, pig. This is good advice and exactly what professionals think
    when approached by a total amateur who ends up being a pain in the butt on
    a shoot. Matt is not putting anyone down. He is addressing a common
    occurrence in the industry – and industry where there are already too many
    amateurs who are low-balling prices and misleading customers into thinking
    they know what their doing.

  22. Ivan Atanasov says:
    January 15, 2015 at 6:23 am

    Too bad for you man…

  23. igetsmart says:
    January 15, 2015 at 7:20 am

    great video – People interaction is 90% – not something you learn as second
    shooter few times – practice interaction on friends in gatherings etc. for
    quite awhile – like you said workshops are a great idea – one has to know
    his gear 100% at a wedding – fumbling is a killer – being assistant is like
    you said a good idea as you will hear and see

  24. Tom Craven says:
    January 15, 2015 at 8:17 am

    I like the fact you explained it in such a way which is blunt and to the
    point but without offended a photographer who is “not as good” as someone
    they want to work with. It’s like a bands agent taking someone else who
    wants to be an agent with them to shadow them when trying to land a deal –
    it just doesn’t happen.

  25. Szőlősi Zsombor says:
    January 15, 2015 at 8:57 am

    Thanks Matt, useful tips! Btw great image quality in your latest videos.

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