I have a good problem. I recently purchased a 5D3 and a 70-200 iii lens. My pictures have been gaining a lot of traction just being shared around social media (I shoot car/motorsports photos).

I’ve had a few people ask about shooting weddings already, but I’m not prepared.

  1. What lenses do you primarily shoot with at weddings? I for sure will not be able to use my current 70-200 in most situations.
  2. Any advice over using flash? It’ll be an entirely new concept to me. Luckily a flash came with my 5D.
  3. General Advice? Things you wish you knew when starting out with wedding gigs?
  4. What to charge?

Thank you!

  • KidElder@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You’d need a 24-105 mm F4:lens if you don’t want to swap out to use your 70-200 also. Else two cameras for two lenses. Then you have the 85 -105mm focal lengths for portrait shoots, just make sure the subject isn’t against a close background to get bokeh. Or buy both 24-70 f2.8 and 70-200 f2.8 lenses.

    You said you have a flash but if it’s an on camera flash that’s a terrible one to use. You need a TTL flash that you can diffuse the light, point at ceilings, walls or behind you and if you can afford one get a high speed one. You don’t want the flash directly in people’s faces. You’ll end up with harsh pictures . And do a lot of practicing with it because you need to be shooting on manual mode ane you want the flash on auto with manual power to be able to take the constantly changing subjects moving around.

    If you want to learn to shoot events, do it at friends, tamily or whatever for a while. Do not do it for a wedding. It’s their once in a lifetime photos and you can totally screw it up.

    Or better yet go work for somebody to learn the ropes. If you’ve noticed at weddings, there’s usually two photographers taking pictures.