Photo Fusion: A Wedding Photographers Guide to Mixing Digital Photography and Video

Chapter 8. Wedding Day Set Up

Before leaving for every wedding, check and re-check all your equipment, make sure batteries are charged, cards are formatted, sensors cleaned, and bags packed. Adding Fusion coverage means adding more gear and more checking. We encourage you to check your gear closely, test your audio devices to ensure they are working, test record some video footage, etc.

Figure 8.1. Keeping all your Fusion equipment in one place makes it easier to access everything you need

Wedding Day Set Up We check our still cameras before every shoot and test the video and audio equipment we take to the event. We have found that keeping all our Fusion equipment in one place is helpful. We have a small camera bag that holds our audio equipment and other items we will need to make Fusion so we're not trying to find a cord or connection and going through several bags at the last minute. Keeping all the equipment together also allows us to be ready to go, with gear in place, quickly as things start to happen on the wedding day.

In Appendix I you will find a checklist to help ensure you have your Fusion gear ready to go.

Checking Your Equipment

One of the nicest features of the HDSLRs is that you can take advantage of Live View/Magnify function to ensure that you have nailed your focus (as you can see in Figure 8-2). Because we need to use Manual focus, at least part of the time, using magnify ...