10 Tips To Help You Into Photographing Your First Wedding

If you’ve been a hobbyist photographer long enough, or you’re a professional photographer already, sooner or later, they will come for you. You think they won’t, but they will. Who are “they”? People you know who have a good reason to use you as the photographer for their big wedding day. I am going to state something right here at the start and as clearly as possible: you should avoid shooting friends and family weddings at all costs. Unless you actively want to start photographing weddings (and even then I’d counsel against starting with friends and family), you need to shoot it down swiftly and cleanly. So, why am I writing this article? Well, firstly, it’s surprisingly easy to get cornered. I remember veteran photographers telling me when I first started — and every forum thread titled “I’ve been asked to photograph X’s wedding, what do I do?” — to avoid shooting weddings like the plague. Even if you want to be a wedding photographer, you’d be better off acting as a second shooter to begin. Nevertheless, I got cornered eventually. I thought I could bob and weave the approaches, but one landed eventually. For me, it was a family […]

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