Shooting My First Wedding Today

[jzq]

Today's the day. Here's my kit: <br>

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Canon 20D<br>

Canon XTi<br>

24-105mm f/4.0 <br>

17-55mm f/2.8 <br>

70-200mm f/2.8 <br>

10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 <br>

50mm f/1.4 <br>

580EXII <br>

Tripod <br>

Umbrella, rain poncho, camp towel (30% chance of rain at the site) <br>

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Oh... and a whole lot of nervous energy. Is there anything else I should keep

in mind? Any parting kernels of wisdom?<br>

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My heartfelt thanks to all of you who have advised me and given me good,

courteous, honest critique over the past several months. I hope to actualize

some of what you all have said.<br>

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Wish me luck!<br>

[golden]

Looks like you have the gear Judith. wait! what about spare batteries? Good Luck and post the results..

[richterjw]

I think you'll find after today you can leave some of those lenses at home. Limit what you have to think about. Best, JR

[Matt Laur]

Extra memory cards, changed often enough so that not all of your eggs are in one basket? A safe way to carry those cards when they're not in the camera bodies? And, yeah... batteries! Charger(s) along for the ride, just in case?

 

Remember: nervousness is contagious. Relax and use your own confidence to inspire more of the same in your subjects. You can freak out AFTER the event, when a gin and tonic can properly fix matters.

[richard_crowe4]

About the only additional piece of equipment that I would recomend for future wedings is an additional flash unit. Redundancy is the name of the game in wedding photography.

 

Murphy's Law of Wedding Photography states that the possiblity of a piece of equipment failing is in a direct relationahip to the importance of that equipment and in an inverse relationship to the availability of backup equipment.

[James G. Dainis]

I may be too late but - Water, stain remover pen, sewing kit, safety pins, antacid tablets, aspirin, snacks, coins, Swiss army knife, pen flashlight, business cards and extra batteries.

[steve_levine]

I only hope your lone flash didn't crap out on you? Next trip, bring two. My 1st wedding was filled with fun. My Metz flash's charger hadn't worked. So I had to shoot all day with a pair of dual "AA" cell Vivitar shoe flashes. Suffice to say that recycle time was really long. I ran out of jokes to tell while stalling them.