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| Melina- copyright 2011Geoff Thompson |
You must like people. If you don’t like people you are not suited to Wedding photography. Of course you could take some steps to rectify this.
”People who don’t like people have no business taking people pictures and most of all wedding photography is a people business.” George Schaub. American Photography Author.
Patience is a very much needed attribute.
A “Thick Skin.”
A sense of humour.
Commitment to your craft. A “student” of photography formal and/or informal.
”It is an article of faith to me that the really great wedding pictures are still to be made.” Ian Hawthorne former Australian Wedding Photography Guru.
Photography skills above average and always striving higher.
Not prone to panic attacks.
An ability to remain calm under pressure.
Physically and mentally and emotionally fit.
Reliable, punctual, organized.
An ability to “think on your feet.”
“to become a Master photographer of weddings, one must be an accomplished portraitist,an Illustrator,a Photo Journalist,a Director and probably a Psychologist.A wedding photographer must be able to to photograph architecture and fashion; or in short a a master wedding photographer must be accomplished in many things.”The late Rocky Gunn famous American wedding Photographer.
Able to read a street directory and/ or supplement this with GPS device.
“Like many others I got into wedding photography by accident more than design.I was asked by relatives to photograph their wedding because they knew I was a keen photographer and they thought that they might be able to save some money.Well they did and I managed to enter the field through this avenue on a trial and error basis at their expense, without the risk of declaring myself a professional.Looking back the results weren’t too bad and some really quite good considering but I shudder to think now of what I didn’t know then and the equipment that I used.
Geoff Thompson
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