What would a wedding be without photographs; just how much would the bride and groom remember a few years later. Professional digital wedding photographers are usually hired to ensure that memories of the day stay captured and ready to be looked at whenever the couple wants too.

Most wedding photographers have assistants so they can create a wedding album that will be memorable but if you want to take pictures of a friend’s wedding, who will help you?Fortunately for wedding photographers they can use an assistant to help them get the right shots but if you’re a friend taking pictures, then how do you take good shots of the day? If you want to take photographs of your friend’s or relations wedding then you will have to do it on your own because you won’t have an assistant like the professionals have. This article highlights a few basic techniques and special effects photography styles for anyone who wants to capture a friend or family members wedding using a digital camera.

Most importantly try to ensure you don’t have poor background scenery and that there aren’t too many people in the shot. Don’t worry too much if you can’t get a full body shot of the couple as you can get around this problem by taking a portrait shot of them which will solve the problem.

Spectacled guests can be a problem as glare from their glasses obscures their eyes and reflects back at the camera. Although some interesting special effects can be achieved when you take a picture of a subject with the light behind them this may not be the right occasion to experiment so make sure the light is behind you when you take your shot.

Some of the best pictures you will take will be those where the subject(s) do not know the shot is being taken and the best way to do this is by using a zoom lens. To avoid missing what will probably be great shots, don’t put your camera down because with digital wedding photography you can guarantee the moment you do, something worthwhile will take place.

Digital cameras rely on two things, memory and power and the last thing you want when you take your shots is to run out of memory or for the batteries to die on you. For 6 mega pixel cameras and up, the absolute bare minimum should be a 1 gigabyte card, preferably 2 gigabytes and always use the highest resolution your camera can manage if the images are to be printed.

The reason you need to set the cameras resolution to the maximum is because the colors will be richer and if you want to enlarge the photos, it won’t be a problem. Storing the wedding images on a computer or CD will mean that you can print them off whenever you want but a presentation CD can be played back on a TV.

A new generation has grown up not really knowing what film photography is like, so to them digital wedding photography is quite normal.

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