The Fun and Agony of Shooting a Wedding

Today I will be shooting a wedding at Alexander Field. Shooting a wedding is an experience like no other. I feel a high shooting a sporting event, but the high from a wedding lasts all day. I get that high from the pressure, and there is no pressure like shooting a wedding. You have to get the shots, and if you do not they are lost forever. After shooting a wedding there is the crash back at home followed by the hours of editing the next few days. This wedding I will be second shooting so it really does not carry the pressure that shooting alone does. That being said I love getting the shot so I am sure that I will pack the pressure on myself. The photo above was taken at a friends wedding in 2012. I was not shooting this wedding for money at all, but of course I always have my camera on me. I am sure that the actual wedding photographer did not appreciate another camera.

Going Back to Edit Old Photos

When I first took these pictures I had just switched to RAW. I was shooting both RAW and jpeg in camera because Lightroom was a new and scary thing to me. That was Lightroom 3. Now I am using Lightroom 5.5, and I can’t imagine how I got along without it. That being said I did not do too much to this photo. I adjusted a couple of sliders slightly, but for the most part this is what came out of the camera. As much as you can do that with a RAW file that is.