Help needed regarding wedding photography

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I'm looking to gain some experience in wedding photography so i wondered if there was any wedding togs on here who would be prepared to maybe take me along to a wedding with them so i could stay in the background just to gain some knowlege of angles poses etc and the do's and dont's, i'm happy to pay a fee for this if anyone is willing to help me out,preferably in the south east, but if not i am prepared to travel further a field if neccassery, many thanks in advance ;)
 
or people with experience of doing weddings who would be prepared to maybe take me along to a wedding
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I'll take you to a wedding if you like. There's no bloody way you'll get me shooting one but we can sit at the back and take the mick out of peoples outfits. :D
 
You could come with me this Saturday if I wasn't otherwise engaged... sticking pins in my eyes! At least that's nice when you stop! :D
 
LOL. No I really really don't. Good luck to anybody who wants to do it , but I was really fed up of the whole never ending pantomime of it all, and the worst part of all was that outside of weddings and other paid jobs the camera hardly ever came out.

Tel, I don't think you need to shadow anyone mate. You should know if you have the necessary basic camera skills to take on weddings. The rest is experience in posing and dealing with large groups of people, and that only comes with experience. There are plenty of books on wedding photography which will give you a good idea of how to go about the job.

Start small and get in there - you'll make your mistakes as you go, but I doubt any of them will be disasterous. ;)
 
Thanks CT, i do think i have the camera skills to take one on, i acually did a friends a couple of months ago which did,ent go to bad for my first time, well they where happy with the results anyway although it was a freebie so maybe they had to be lol, i just wanted to get other peoples take on it and how they go about doing things, ie amount of time they take on shots, poses angles etc,particularly for indoor shots, also did get hold of a good book recently which should be help for next time.
 
The trouble is you could shadow someone and pick up some great ideas, or shadow someone and pick up some really crap ones. You've got the right idea - do a few friends for free, then start to charge as your work and your experience improves. It doesn't matter how many times you shadow someone - you still have to take that first big step on your own in the end . There's a world of difference between doing weddings for mates where you'll know lots of folks there, and that first big wedding where you know no-one and you're just 'the photographer' with people having different expectations of you. You'll be crapping bricks.. but as long as you've done the basic grounding you'll be fine. ;)
 
Yes i see your points, and good advice, funnily enough when i did my friends wedding i only knew the bride and groom and best man, i had never met any of the other guests who were there, which i guess was,ent a bad thing, i have to admit though it was quite daunting,i did make a list of shots to do and got the best man to line up the guests for the various shots which helped with the flow,i did make a couple of silly mistakes but i guess that comes with time and experience.
 
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