Wedding Shots now Smile :)

Sebzy

Just looking back through a set of formal shots I took last year and noticed how many of them were trashed due to bad smiles or lack of any.

I am quite reluctant to keep asking the BnG to say cheese or just say a big smile now as the shoot may last 20 Minutes or so.

SO

Anyone care to share some tricks to keep people upbeat and smiling. ???



Seb.

prox

Tell jokes.

mikeanywhere

Wear only a dicky bow, that will defo make people put smiles on their faces!!

prox

That would make people embarrased rather than happy. Some may also become sexually aroused.

Quackles

prox wrote:

That would make people embarrased rather than happy. Some may also become sexually aroused.

.. which may end in a rather swift divorce. At our wedding, our photographer just chatted away to us while looking through the viewfinder. He'd make a funny comment, we'd laugh, he'd snap. It was great, because my husband loathes having his picture taken Probably works better with some than others. I think the main thing is to build up a rapport so that bride and groom are at ease.

311

The best wedding photographer I've seen ,climbed up onto an outdoor staircase ,balancing on it with his feet and looking down on us 30 foot below.

Nobody was minding the camera ,we were all smiling at yer mans prediciment.

Sebzy

Been asked to put together a portfolio of works so I'm looking through previous weddings and it just gets worse. I actualy took shots where the bride and groom were looking off god only knows where and OH the colors were not even colors the reds looked icky and the whites well lets just say your need DAZ. Oh the shame oh the shame of it all....

For the wedding last month i tried telling jokes but kinda got everyone confused so went back to SMILE and the usual bangers and mash...

Seb.
Might start a thread of the worst wedding shots of all time I'm sure I have thousands by now.

Carrigman

Never say: "say cheese".

Say: "say sex".

Works every time.

magicbastarder

what if people become sexually aroused?

Valentia

I know I have gone on about this before but a tripod serves many purposes. Using a tripod you can have the shot framed and chat away. You don't need to look through the viewfinder. Keep eye contact with your subjects with your finger on the shutter. Press when appropriate. Keeping people relaxed is the most important part of wedding photography. Jokes are risky though. They may not have the same sense of humour, if any, and the expressions might be even worse.

A tripod, not to keep the camera steady, is the single best way of keeping a rapport with your subjects. Once you start using it as a prop you will never go back.

magicbastarder

people take you more seriously if you have one.
i used a hasselblad at a wedding, and there's nothing like one to reassure people that you're a 'serious' photographer.

mikeanywhere

magicbastarder wrote:

what if people become sexually aroused?

You will be in luck then wont you? The wedding album with a twist too, being a public and private versions :eek: