How Do Photographers Prepare For a Wedding Shoot?

Anybody who has chosen to make living as a wedding photographer must have experienced stress at some point of time. However dealing with it just before the wedding is harder than it appears.

It requires careful and advanced planning from the wedding photographer and their team’s end. This is how the best wedding photographers prep up for upcoming wedding photoshoot.

Right from basic equipment in your bag to advanced ones, keep the arsenal ready in your bag. On the day of the wedding, stay relaxed! Have your meals, wear your comfortable shoes and leave for the shoot.

Also, if the couple is wanting achieve a certain ‘look’ in the wedding photoshoot, then carry the camera and equipment accordingly.

Besides the camera and lenses you plan on using, the wedding photographers also carry a spare camera and some spare batteries. Every battery needs a special charger too. So be prepared with this requirement as well. Also all the batteries should be charged up in advance.

Memories cards are responsible for holding the dearest memories of a wedding. A wedding photographer also carries extra and blank memory cards than they need as they go on to take thousands of shots.

Take along with you an extra camera, lens, batteries, memory cards and lights, and you are all prepared for unexpected circumstances.

Instead try to create a happy atmosphere and carry the things which would be required to take the shots in bad weather conditions. Plastic bags come in handy to carry those sensitive equipments such as camera, lenses and flashes and provide them the much needed protection from water. So don’t forget to carry them.

Store all your camera equipment and accessories in your camera bag much in advance and avoid the last minute packing.

If you are flying to some other location like destination wedding or pre-wedding shoot, use smaller bags instead to carry the the portable kit at the location.

Always take out some extra time to discuss your ideas with the couple and their families before the shoot. All the couple poses, the important guests to appear in the wedding, the food menu, the decor, everything! These days couples and families demand extra creative and special poses, Instagram worthy shots on their wedding day.

They then add them in the contract.

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