Digital Wedding Photography For Dummies

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Capturing a Wedding’s Excitement and Emotions

In This Chapter

Exploring techniques to catch action

Capturing expressions in calm moments

Photographing important moments and unexpected events

Surveying symbolism

Weddings are some of life’s most beautiful moments. As couples stand before their family and friends to express their love and make a lifelong commitment, you can almost physically feel the excitement in the air. The best part about being the photographer is that you have a front-row seat to every wedding story. But you also have the responsibility of capturing the feel of the day.

Weddings are full of both motion and still moments, and you need to be able to convey the emotion of each type of setting in your photographs. This chapter covers techniques for photographing the action and excitement of a wedding day and gives you pointers for shooting the emotional, quiet moments. I also point out ways to capture both pivotal and unexpected moments during a wedding and look ...