If you choose to go this route, my "Do it yourself" blogs will become very important for you - and Uncle Joe! They're designed with the novice in mind and will help your family member or friend photographer understand how to work his/her new camera under various conditions. I'll be bringing to bear all my years shooting San Francisco wedding photography and distilling my techniques down to simple steps. In this post, it's all about the lenses.
Whether you're shooting a wedding on the beach at a beach wedding venue or in a vineyard at a Napa valley wedding venue, you can count on one constant - the lenses you'll need. Here's a list of the needed lenses, and places to get rent them:
- The main lense: 25mm - 70mm, f2.8. You'll use this lense the most and you'll need it to be f2.8 (or lower, if you can get it) so that you can shoot in low light situations without neededing a flash and without bumping up the ISO too high. You can use this lens for portraits - but be sure to read my DIY post on portraits first.
- The "long" lense: 70mm - 200mm, f2.8. You'll need this lense to unobstrusively capture the ceremony (and do portraits if you wish). I use this lense all the time at ceremonies because it allows me to be out of view of the guests and yet still get nice closeups of the bride and groom
- The "short" lense: 17mm - 35mm, f2.8. You'll need something with a wide angle (it could be a fixed wide angle lense instead of the zoom lense listed) so you can capture shots like the one below
Getting those lenses: It's highly unlikely you'll want to buy those lenses (unless you have cash to burn) as they'll cost you about $6,000 total. So here's a good rental spot. The rental charge will be about $200 for the weekend.
That should do it - enjoy!
About Lucky Shot Studios:
Lucky Shot Studios is a wedding photographer specializing in artistic wedding photography with a photo journalistic style. If you're in the process of choosing a wedding photographer, Lucky Shot Studios would love be considered.
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