Wedding Workshop with Hilary Wardhaugh

For this workshop Hilary gave us a talk on Wedding Photography and her methods of presenting to clients, how she shoots - candid and posed shots along with marketing and what sort of shots sell for her.

We then walked over to St John's church in Reid where she gave a short exercise on shooting weddings.

Some important factors that Hilary talked about include:

- When shooting in environments that have many different colour casts, such as the lighting in St John's which is very yellow but includes stained glass windows letting through natural light, it is best to convert your images to black and white during the post production stage.

- Arrive at the church before the bride to get those critical entry images

- use any outside backgrounds to your advance and when taking outside shots use a long lens to get that nice depth of field

- With candid shots it is good to be a fair distance a away from your subject to get a strong depth of field and a nice natural tone.

- With posing, get your subjects to walk in a line and shoot from roughly 4-5 metres away depending on your lens to create images that aren't so posed

- On the day carry two camera bodies with you with perhaps one long lens and one short/fixed. This will mean you can switch between the two when needed and no time is wasted with changing lens

- Always carry with you extra memory cards, once they are full keep them in a secure place preferably on you, not with the assistant.

Here are some examples of Hilary's wedding work