From the Wedding Tip Series, providing a new piece of advice every Wednesday to help brides get the most out of their wedding photography. This Wednesday, we are proud to unveil tip two:
“Leave the pecking to the birds; hold that first kiss for 4-6 seconds!”
That’s right brides and grooms, by savoring this oh-so-important moment for an extra few seconds, you are immensely helping your photographer not only capture the shot, but capture it in the most beautiful way possible. In good lighting, that extra time could give us the opportunity to zoom in for a closer version of the shot, recompose if necessary or in poor lighting, get off a second flash recycle.
Especially if you are getting married in a dimly-lit church or other indoor venue, this is extremely important. An SB900 top-of-the-line external flash unit takes 3-4 seconds to recycle, depending on the batteries, so that means if we are shooting with flash we only get ONE shot and if our timing is off or the shot comes out blurry, that’s it, no do-overs! If you hold your kiss for 6 seconds we get two shots. If we are shooting without flash in low light we’ll be using a slow shutter speed, which means an increased likely hood for blurry shots, so even in that situation, the more shots we take the better the odds one will be in great focus.
At the end of the day, capturing a split second moment 100% of the time would be practically impossible statistically, so why not just give us a few seconds instead 🙂
