wedding_2This posting is partly building on the previous postings, but are mostly continuing to give some advice if you get a friend or family member to photograph for you.

As we briefly discussed previously; your friend should get some expert knowledge by asking to learn from professionals. This is particular important as your friend should have some experience and knowledge in what he/she is doing.

First of all is of course the subject of choosing a decent camera. To find two cameras with the same specification; doesn’t mean they give similar quality. A lot of more technical specification like the CCD chip, lenses, and how the microprocessor processes the data is important for the final quality. I am sure both resellers and professional photographers can give you some good advices.

Next is of course to listen to Murphy ’s Law; which in important situations seems to manifest. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Therefore you should bring extra camera, extra battery and extra camera. There is nothing to do if you get flat battery during the sessions. Hence you will need backup equipment for every situation that could go wrong. You can’t go to the couple getting married and ask “I’m sorry, I have no more battery, and can’t we reschedule the wedding?” There is no way you can reschedule or change anything happening and have to be prepared for everything. You should of course also bring memory; lots of memory for pictures.

You should make all pictures in either good JPEG or RAW format; this is of course for better after work after taking the pictures. You will save a lot of time using these formats. I personally prefer RAW format since its more lossless format than JPEG. I never really understand why we focus so strongly on the JPEG format as the compression often reduces the quality of the picture.

If you don’t believe me; make a search on JPEG vs PNG on Google, and you will quickly learn how the JPEG encryption algorithms often reduces the quality of the picture. Of course this isn’t always noticeable for the naked eye if you use a really high resolution of the pictures you take. I know those formats require a lot of memory; but its well worth when finally starting the post-processing.

Just make sure to bring lots of memory to get lots of quality pictures.

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