My first weddings shoot... I was nervous for about a month, while preparing for this shoot. My good friend Lauren asked me to be the photographer for her special day, so I went out and bought a canon speedlite 430EX II, and rented the Canon 24-70 2.8L lens, to prepare myself. The day came, and the day went, and I somehow survived. Now I just have to edit tons of pics on Lightroom. Any advice about wedding photography, editing tips/techniques, the best print process to use, do you only use color & black and white photos, or can you go with other colors? Any information would be much appreciated. I’m always looking to learn from this awesome community of photographers.
Do whatever the bride wants... even if you think it is stupid... selective colour... dumb... but brides love it... brides pay the bills so brides get selective colour.... LR is great for editing mass photos... assuming you have bunches that are about the same, that just need a tweek here or there... make it on one photo and apply to a group... saves oddles of time... and finally, I am a fan on not showing EVERY picture to the bride... show here the best ones... if she asks for more show her more options...
@icywarm Thanks! I really appreciate your insight. Great idea regarding the group edits, and that really does sounds like a time saver. Do you get the prints printed from an online store, or do you go to a local one?
@chaysingstyles I love my local store... they are much more of a perfectionist than I and have saved my butt my not printing crap more than once... now I have my screen calabrated to their printers and I produce far less crap... but there are some great online stores too that calbrate their printers to your screen in a sense via a series of test prints and such... I don't cheap out on printing as it is the most important step... after the development and well after the capture, that is key too...
Yes, you have the sync feature that means you can batch edit! Yay!
If you have a bunch of photos that you took all at once or at the same settings, you can fix one how you want it, select the ones you want to fix just like it and then in the bottom right press Sync and you can select how they will sync up (white balance, crop etc...) Then, minor tweaks to each one from there. It will save you loads of time.
You can also go through to accept and reject each photo: Put caps lock key on use P for pick and X for reject and then set a filter for the flagged ones only (I normally delete the rejected ones to save room on my hard drive and so I don't second guess myself).
I could go on but laundry calls. I am sure you know some of this stuff!
Have fun!
PS do you use presets? You can find free ones online (if you like that style, I have a love hate relationship with them)
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If you have a bunch of photos that you took all at once or at the same settings, you can fix one how you want it, select the ones you want to fix just like it and then in the bottom right press Sync and you can select how they will sync up (white balance, crop etc...) Then, minor tweaks to each one from there. It will save you loads of time.
You can also go through to accept and reject each photo: Put caps lock key on use P for pick and X for reject and then set a filter for the flagged ones only (I normally delete the rejected ones to save room on my hard drive and so I don't second guess myself).
I could go on but laundry calls. I am sure you know some of this stuff!
Have fun!
PS do you use presets? You can find free ones online (if you like that style, I have a love hate relationship with them)