Wedding Photographer Or Wedding Photographer Photography

Any professional in his business must have the appropriate equipment to conduct his activities. For example, an experienced carpenter should have a plane, chisel, kiyanku and other professional tools, and the wedding photographer must also have the necessary photo equipment to maintain a decent level.

However, wedding photography is divided into two main areas: reportage and staging (art) and photographic equipment, which is reassigned for both directions of photography is different.

In any case, at the beginning of his practice, the beginning wedding photographer should decide - in what way he will shoot initially: in the production or reportage. And from this choice it will depend which camera the wedding photographer will acquire at the initial stage. Let's analyze the features of photographic equipment that a wedding photographer should know.

Feature first. Rate of the camera.
Very important feature of the camera is its rate of fire, and if translated into a more human language, the rate of fire of the camera, this is its ability to produce a large number of pictures in a relatively short period of time. This is the characteristic of the camera.

This feature of the camera allows you to shoot a wedding celebration in a reportage style and not to lose sight of one important moment of it. However, the wedding photographer, choosing for his future practice a camera equipped with this characteristic, should be attentive: some models of cameras have a really high speed of photography, but at the highest speed the frames are made with a very low resolution of the picture. It is necessary to take this fact into account and make sure that the camera is both quick-firing and capable of producing images with the maximum resolution.

The second feature. Optics with or without zoom.
A dynamic event, like a wedding, often has to be, at least partially, filmed in a reportage key. Here you can not do without optics with zoom. It is desirable that the optics was with a constant and sufficiently high light output.

Feature of the third. How quickly the camera focuses.
The speed of focusing is also a very, very important characteristic of a camera that a professional wedding photographer must possess. Report cameras tend to have a higher focusing speed than a camera designed for artistic photography.

Feature fourth. High ISO operating.
As a rule, events unfold so that the wedding photographer is forced to shoot in dark rooms and with a deficit of light. It follows that the camera must have a sufficiently high operating ISO. Working, it means that at its high value in the picture there are no noises.

The difference between the reportage camera and the camera for artistic shots.
As a rule, the report camera has a higher color rendering and a higher number of megapixels than the camera. The same camera, in most cases, has a higher focus speed, higher focus speed and a higher ISO value.

To get the perfect picture in any conditions, ideally - the wedding photographer should have two cameras and use them depending on the situation. If, at the initial stage of the practice, the financial situation does not allow the purchase of two different cameras, one should either stop at one of the keys to photographing and buy a suitable camera for him, or equip one (say, reportage), and achieve the level of artistic effect in the images with the help of Processing in a graphics editor.

Good luck. With sincere respect, the wedding photographer Leonid Starikov.