Tips You Had to Learn that Nobody Taught You

[theothercoolhandluke]

Get a camera strap that will hold 2 CF Cards to do the job. In case you hike a trail and go to find out you have no card/cards. Learned it from someone else and could not see myself doing it.
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Shoot well, Joe

Also, make sure you have a spare battery in case you end up taking more photos than you planned for.

 

[meyerweb]

Remember to look behind you when backing up to get the "right" shot. Especially when you are near a set of cement stairs. Whole wedding party watched as I fell backwards down 5-6 steps. Managed to hold my camera safe... The rest of my body not so much.

Fighter pilots call it situational awareness:

‪Wedding Photographer Falls Into Water Fountain‬‏ - YouTube

Know your venue.........

Geez, even ignoring the fountain trick, I would have killed the photographer at my wedding if he had been that in-my-face and that obtrusive. And I would have expected to be fired if I had shot weddings that way, back when I actually did weddings. In my day, we were expected to be as close to invisible as possible. I would never, ever have been that close to the couple as they came down the isle. That's what long, fast lenses are for.

Is that (except for the fountain) typical of the way wedding photographers work these days?

 

[MissCream]

Remember to look behind you when backing up to get the "right" shot. Especially when you are near a set of cement stairs. Whole wedding party watched as I fell backwards down 5-6 steps. Managed to hold my camera safe... The rest of my body not so much.

Fighter pilots call it situational awareness:

‪Wedding Photographer Falls Into Water Fountain‬‏ - YouTube

Know your venue.........

I don't know about anyone else but my camera would not have been in the water that long, my head would be under with my arms sticking straight up with my gear in hand...

 

[invisible]

Do your own thing, no matter what. Regardless of criticism (positive or negative), photo-happiness will follow.

 

[chuasam]

You don't always need a plan when you are going out to shoot!! Just go!! Great things can happen!!

That really depends on what you are shooting. Quite often a plan really is important.

 

[OscarWilde]

Remember to look behind you when backing up to get the "right" shot. Especially when you are near a set of cement stairs. Whole wedding party watched as I fell backwards down 5-6 steps. Managed to hold my camera safe... The rest of my body not so much.

Fighter pilots call it situational awareness:



Know your venue.........

I don't know about anyone else but my camera would not have been in the water that long, my head would be under with my arms sticking straight up with my gear in hand...

Agreed! My favorite part actually is when the guy grabs his camera and is like strangling him with the strap The guy was a real sport for trying to save the camera, but he didn't really need to try and kill the poor guy!

 

[Josh66]

Fighter pilots call it situational awareness:



Know your venue.........

I don't know about anyone else but my camera would not have been in the water that long, my head would be under with my arms sticking straight up with my gear in hand...

Agreed! My favorite part actually is when the guy grabs his camera and is like strangling him with the strap The guy was a real sport for trying to save the camera, but he didn't really need to try and kill the poor guy!

I seem to remember reading somewhere that both cameras & lenses survived the dip.

 

[OscarWilde]

I seem to remember reading somewhere that both cameras & lenses survived the dip.

How about the photogs career? I can't imagine the bride was very.... sympathetic... that he ruined her walk down the aisle

 

[Josh66]

I seem to remember reading somewhere that both cameras & lenses survived the dip.

How about the photogs career? I can't imagine the bride was very.... sympathetic... that he ruined her walk down the aisle

Who cares about the bride? :lmao:

 

[table1349]

1. Shut your pie hole and open your ears.

2. Never squat on your spurs.

3. Any idiot can read, comprehension is a sign of learning.

 

[pgriz]

Slow down.

Let the brain catch up with your finger. Probably the single biggest difference between snapshootery and goodimagery.

Anticipate and prepare.

The next biggest difference between goodimagery and greatimagery.

and echoing gryphonslair99's #1: Relate to your people before you relate to the camera.

 

[Derrel]

The "mistakes" and "failures" teach one more than the "successes". Reviewing one's BAD photographic efforts is the way to learn how to get things right.

 

[pgriz]

The "mistakes" and "failures" teach one more than the "successes". Reviewing one's BAD photographic efforts is the way to learn how to get things right.

True, but only if one is open to understanding the mistakes and failures.

 

[Alex_B]

At -40 degC keep your eyebrows and nose away from the camera ... and don't breathe while looking through the viewfinder.

 

[table1349]

At -40 degC keep your eyebrows and nose away from the camera ... and don't breathe while looking through the viewfinder.

Here is a better one for you Alex. AT -40 degC Keep your silly ass inside!!!