A few weeks ago I was asked to shoot a good friends, sister's wedding because the photographer they had booked dropped them for some odd reason, and I really didn't want to do it because, a) I had no previous experience (other than what I read about on here :D) and b) I don't really have the type of equipment needed...

Anyways after a few hours of explaining why I didn't want to do it and them telling me that they really didn't care about all that stuff, I said, sure why not!

I haven't really had much time to edit them yet, but I wanted to see what some of you guys thought so I can see if I'm going in the right direction.   So here are a few shots that are just converted to jpeg with just some darkening/lighting edits :

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 Not to shabby for a first wedding.

Some are a little dark, and I noticed you have some noise. You may want to get a program called "noiseware" . There is a free down load, at the bottom of the list on their site.

I say you did ok :) And hey, it was great practice ! Way to go on jumping on the opportunity.

I can't really offer any advice - I haven't done a wedding yet.  

Shelly 

 Thank you for looking, I have noiseware, I just forgot about using it since I just did some quick edits, I will go back and run them thru later.

 Nice job for your first wedding. I noticed the noise too. A couple of things you can do differently next time, watch out for busy backgrounds and objects around the head and use a shallower DOF to bring more attention to the subject.

Greetings, what lens would you recommend for shooting weddings? I shoot with a 400D canon. Thank You

Well I will tell you you are brave! I will so not do weddings! lol I think you did a nice job of capturing some great moments for them! :)

GoodShot:

Greetings, what lens would you recommend for shooting weddings? I shoot with a 400D canon. Thank You

there is no straight answer to lenses for a wedding, it's personal preference... just do a search on the forum for wedding lenses, you'll get lots of opinions. I'd rent a lens before buying so you can see if it fits what you want it to do.

 good start!  :)   way better than my first i think...  :P

my favorite tip!  

"Flowers below boobs..."    

I must say that 50 times at every wedding... us girls have a tendency to hold our arms higher- ihave always done it to block my stomach, but it bunches up the arm making it look fatter, and ruins the S curve look to the body and is normally pretty distracting as you see them beofre the face or neck area- so there is my one for you  :) i tell them flowers cannot be abovce your belly button unless your smelling them!  ;)

FIONA:

"Flowers below boobs..."       i tell them flowers cannot be abovce your belly button unless your smelling them!  ;)

This is such a good saying!! I'm stealing it!....I mean....."Borrowing" it from you.

These are not bad! Did you get the fever? Are you planning on doing more weddings later? I said a long time ago that I wouldn't do weddings, and I got suckered into doing one.....and FELL IN LOVE with it. But, it means a HUGE investment in gear to do it right. Thanks....Chris

I think you did a really good job for your first wedding! 

LOL at the "flowers below boobs" comment!  I'll have to keep that in mind if I ever get the crazy notion to shoot a wedding!

The biggest thing that I see that you could have done diff was in pic #2. Try to remember to have the subjects face towards the light source... had you turned her body the other way and placed her to the other side of the stained glass, that photo would have been greatly improved. Overall, I think you did fine for your first try :)

 Just a quick question on #3.  Why tilt it?

splauche:

 Just a quick question on #3.  Why tilt it?

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