Can anyone suggest a good photographer to do my sisters wedding. They are currently looking for someone to do their wedding in Feb next year in Margaret River. Must be very good!

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Hey Jason , Na wasnt me lol, must have a twin Strange lol

Mastering flash will be my priority.

Slappy: with your Manual settings (1/200 - 1/160), do you set the flash to ETTL2 and let the flash work out the power needed according to your focusing point?

Also would you guys bother with a reflector screen?

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imho so far this thread has focussed too much on set portrait wedding photography. Our wedding photographer took very few set shots (only a few at our request for the olds)..the bulk were 'in the moment' shots where no-one even knew they were being photographed. Makes for a much more interesting album than mostly set shots.

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Reflector screens are great but might be hard on location if you are shooting by your self, if you have an assistant then cool.
they are great for filtering natural light etc

I have couple big circle ones both has multipil colours and then take covers off and have a soft diffuser on them

Yep let the flash work out what it needs. You wont be able to shoot faster than 1/200 without setting up a high speed sync in the settings. The 580exii has more than enough power to highlight your subject at most settings so it will be a case of balancing the background light using aperture and/or ISO. Camera meters ambient light, flash sorts out its own metering.

Like Tim said, if you have an assistant then reflectors are great, get one with white, gold and silver covers.

Like fmx_rider said, the photo journalistic approach is getting very popular, but I'm yet to be at a wedding where the couple doesn't want a few posed shots, if only for the family. You can get some great info on the photojournalistic style here at the Wedding Photo Journalism Association (WPJA) site. View the galleries under contest winners.

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hrm.. hard to answer it all in one post. the most important thing is backups.. that means at least two bodies, at least three lenses that overlap, and at least two flashes.. and you'll need to adapt to every conceivable light situation.

now that's just the techinical side...

the hardest part of wedding photography is catching the moments, posing, lighting and working out backgrounds (isolating backgrounds, including backgrounds, DOF, etc etc).

check out my site, in particular the blogs, if you want to get a better idea of adapting to different light throughout the course of the day:

www.lumensphotography.com

Finally had the shoot today and....I'm quite happy with the results and if I'm happy than the clients will definately be happy with my efforts.

Not sure how the whole copyright thing goes so I'll check with them before posting anything here.

Big thanks to Jamie who spent some time anwsering my questions and giving some valuable tips.

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Awesome news Peter, the first one is the hardest one!

As far as copyright you still own the copyright, but you should always check anyway so as not to piss off the happy couple

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Well photos are ready for them when they're back from their honeymoon, but here is one with no faces

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