Second shooter at a wedding

Shooting a wedding can be a well paid job... But also a very highly stressful one for sure. The best place to be in such an event is (in my opinion) as a second shooter. You might be there to build your portfolio, or you might be there to gain some experience. For me it was the latter. This was for a very close friend of mine, and so was done as a favor.

The day was filled with challenges and nothing was running on time. The photographer only had less than 2 hrs in the morning according to the plan but in the end he had only a bit more than a hour. So, I had to stay out of his way due to time constraints and also due to the same reason I didn't wanna shoot with artificial light. So it was to be a handful of candid shots with natural light. I used my 100mm macro lens for the whole shoot since it was the fastest of my lenses and at 100mm, its quite flattering as well. Also considered my camera angles to bring out the best of the bride and groom in this particular wedding. Could have done even better with a bit of posing and post processing though. But that s for a later time. Did got a bit of a chance to pose one of the bridesmaid though.

Here are some of the shots. Please consider that all pics are copyrighted and cannot be used without my written consent.

Thanks,
Akila.