Weddings are a once in a lifetime affair.
Most of the people who get married have very high hopes for their entire marriage ceremony. But any wedding is incomplete without wedding pictures or most importantly the wedding photographer who is responsible for all the images that will be shot during the wedding. As one would not want to get married twice, so as you cannot recreate the wedding scenes to take an image that you missed during the ceremony.
A wedding photographer does not have a lot of responsibilities but the only thing he/she concentrates on is shooting images that are worth the time and effort.
A photographer’s tools, mainly the camera and lenses are what allow him/ her to create those breathtaking shots. Most wedding photographers have either two separate camera bodies with two different lenses, or a team of 2-3 photographers who take on different focal lengths and different positions to get all round images of the ceremony. The main piece of equipment for all the wedding photographers are the lenses that they prefer to use. The lenses need to be fast (wide apertures) and needs wide angle lens to be optically perfect (professional lenses). The choice of lenses is made carefully by every photographer depending upon the styles they shoot and the ambience that they shoot in. Most of it is low-light situation and some outdoors. The lenses need to be fast, and cover a range of focal lengths for that perfect shot.
In this article we have narrowed down several lenses, apertures and focal lengths which will be perfect additions to a wedding photographer’s arsenal.
This story is from the November 2017 edition of Asian Photography.
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