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Hello lunnas! Nice photographs. I have been doing photography for some years, but have never dared to take on commissions for weddings because of the enormous potential liability. But I do get invited to a lot of weddings where I will usually take a few dozen photos as a wedding present. You have a nice knack for capturing the emotions of the wedding. Your subjects obviously feel comfortable with you. One thing I would work on is *exposure*; I think you need an independent flash to fill out shadows without creating further shadows. If you are working together with hubby, maybe you can shoot and he can be your assistant, holding an independent light source (which will give nice highlights to hair and eyes). A couple of the shots are underexposed or not clearly focussed; that is usually because you don't have enough light and this forces your camera down to a very long exposure and a very wide aperture (5.6 or even bigger), which are unforgiving. If you had a bit more light to work, with you could have shot at 1/60 - 1/120, and you wouldn't have to open the aperture up too big, maybe 5.6 - 8.00. Those are the settings I use when I am having to shoot something live, and quickly. Here's a tip: Make sure you are generous with prints; in my friend Fred's house, the wedding pictures they display are mine, rather than the ones taken by the photographer they hired. What you want to do is take many photographs at a weddings where they already have a professional photographer, and make sure your photographs look better. If you take the time and trouble to get nice shots of the bouquet, flower arrangements, and the cake, the florist and the caterer could become a valuable source of business referrals in future. I don't do weddings but my friend I, who is a florist, will telephone me and tell me that her customers looked at her sample "book" and asked who the photographer was! That is a sweet feeling... good luck and all the best for your wedding photography!

P/s: Lunnas, I often have to contort myself in crazy ways -- or choose unusual angles -- to make sure that I am not reflected in windows, shiny cars, or even peoples' spectacles! :P AP

ty so very much andrew did you see the other picutres on the nexk blog? ty again for your nice coments you give such good advice

I take photographs as a hobby, but mostly of plants, so I don't have any experience with wedding pictures. I like your pictures :) As AndrewPenney said, sometimes the focus is not 100% correct, but I love the motives you chose. Just one thing I noticed: In the first picture, one person's not looking towards the camera. It's a pity, because it's a nice picture otherwise, so maybe you could take a second picture of the same scene the next time? BTW: You and your family look gorgeous in the photos! And your daughter's boyfriend looks kind as well :)

ty you all for your great advice ty so much

one things for sure i really was enjoying taking the pics i took over 800 pics and then200 more the groom said glad that your battries dead on the camra! we tag teamed taking the pictures . my orange dress went well with the colors of the wedding i told my husband i matched the flowers

:) 800 pics! That is a lot. When you start to go pro (or semi-pro), you will want to try and take maybe a quarter of that, because editing 800 shots will take too much of your time. With time, you will become more "sure" about the technical side, and you will be able to do away with "back-up" shots. You mustn't be shy about "arranging" people. Again, I wish you all the best for your dreams! AP

Well I was having fun posingthe people . I sure aint shy about moving the people into diffrent poses it was so fun how i would get the people into the poses the kids was the greastest ,i told the tow little girls to play ring around the rosies a little childhood song and i even sang it and showed them what i wanted , ive noticed that i have a good nack at getting people to understand what pose iam looking for the bride i asked her how you gona feel getting the stress over wiith and the wedding she fell on the couch and i snapped the shot . i walked into the room of ladys dressing and i made them feel they known me all my life but in fact i jst met them only a few minutes ago we was having a ball.I am working on getting the best shots and not taking so many ive got to work on my stedding my hands they were shaking after all it was my first time to shoot a wedding but I dont think anyone knew but me and donald becalse everyone asked me how many years i had been taking pictures so i said about 20 years , it wasnt a lie . i didnt want to tell them oh by the way your my first wedding shoot to think they were getting amutre but after all my husbands a professional photographyer . but 800 they wont get 800 pictures on a disk but they will get what the disk holds , iam learning so much from your adivce thanks so much . donald knows how to use the diffrent filters and diffrent lens hes got a olimpusE3 mine is a SP570, thanks so much for your great adivce