Wedding Photographer's Setup

I suggest you still use film and have a mechanical Nikon FM2n2 as a backup. GO TO BRIDAL SHOWS, visit florists, look for engagement ananouncements in your smaller papers. Put cards on college bulletin boards. Visit consultants. Timber Borcherding timberborcherding

Hey all, I appriciate all advice. I went on my first wedding last week and took a few shots, and the studio is using them. Anyway, they are showing me how to use the Nikon N90 for a backup camera until I get my own. I was thinking to save money, get a Rebel Ti, then use money I could of spent on the top of the line body and get some really good L-Series lens. Any advice, anyone used the Ti??

After reading everything in this forum (my husband says I'm obsessed) I think I'm going to barf. I would love to do weddings, but haven't really advertised because I've never actually done a whole wedding myself (just a couple for friends before I knew ANYTHING). I thought I was getting close to being a pretty good (almost), and consistent photographer, but now I'm not so sure. I really thought my Fuji nps would get me through anything and now I need to practice with 3200 and all that kind of stuff. I'm not sure why I'm writing all this in here, but I really appreciate all of you who have taken time to give honest, really good advice to dumb people like me. I can only hope to be as good as Marc Williams and Mary Ball (LOVE her pictures). Maybe someday. I'm going to keep practicing.

Stephen, you may wish to consider a good low use pro level camera instead. The Rebel line

isn't usually up to the kind of heavy use a wedding requires. The shutters in those cameras

tend to fail much sooner than the pro versions. There are reports that the shutter in the

digital rebel is already starting to fail on those who use it heavily.

 

A Canon EOS 1n body is rugged as can be and can be had quite inexpensively these days

due to the switch to digital. Find some weekend shooter who's selling one, it'll hardly be

broken in ; -)

Thanks Colleen -- Being obsessed is not a bad thing. It means you have a passion. I find if you love something...you can be good at it and the bonus is - you'll love what you do!