Camera Shy? 5 Tips to Achieve Great Wedding Photos

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Are you Camera Shy?

Not all couples who are about to get married are comfortable being in front of the camera. It’s only natural to feel anxious and camera shy – particularly as it’s not rerally something you do very often. However, you need to work through it; otherwise, you won’t have good wedding photos you can look back on.

Don’t worry; we will share with you some tips to have beautiful wedding photos. Let’s begin!

Some tips on how to get over being camera shy

Bride and groom in the sunny vineyard

 

Get Some Inspiration

Go on Pinterest, browse through wedding magazines and blogs, and check out real weddings. Do these things and more to get inspired. You can get a lot of wedding photography inspiration as well that will help you feel more motivated to strut your stuff in front of the camera. Moreover, this will help you know about the style of photography you want for your wedding.

When you’re inspired, the motivation can take over, which will help you overcome being camera shy more easily.

What I like to do with new couples is run them through a similar wedding – hopefully at the same wedding venue as they are planning to hold their own wedding at. This way you’re better able to picture yourself doing the same things that couple did – and may also give you some ideas for your own wedding!

Mollydooker Winery wedding photo

Work With a Professional

You need to hire a good wedding photographer to have beautiful wedding photos. And it’s not only that. A professional photographer knows how to work with camera shy couples or are anxious in front of the cameras. Additionally, the photographer can provide you with tips on how you can be more comfortable in front of the camera.

That is why you need to prioritise finding the best wedding photographer you can to ensure you get the best wedding photos and at the same time, feel comfortable in front of the cameras.

Find someone with many years of experience in producing good wedding photography as this can guarantee you that he or she knows exactly how to capture stunning photos on your wedding day.

intimate First Dance Photo

Have an Engagement Shoot

When you have found the perfect wedding photographer you’re really comfortable with and confident in their abilities, consider having an engagement shoot. An engagement shoot is an excellent way to overcome your camera shyness, and this will help you feel more relaxed with having your photos taken. Also, this is a great chance for you to get to know your photographer better.

Lifting her up silhouette

Trust Your Photographer

You didn’t choose your wedding photographer for nothing, right? So, trust them. When you trust your photographer, you will feel more at ease behind the lens. Let their creativity flow and go with it. By doing so, you will have stunning photos, and you will feel more relaxed while you and your spouse pose in front of the camera on your wedding day.

Ekhidna Winery Mclaren Vale vineyard

Communicate Clearly

There will be certain events you need your photographer to pay closer attention to on your wedding day. For example, if you have a fireworks display after the reception, or releasing butterflys – then you would want your photographer to be prepared and ready to capture the moment.

It’s crucial you maintain clear communication. This way, you will feel more at ease that your photographer will be there at the right times on your wedding day. In turn, you will feel more relaxed in front of the camera; plus, you already expect them to be there, which will give some time to prepare and get yourself together.

remember – your photographer should have experience at weddings, but there is only so much they know about you and your personal familiarity with your own family politics. A shot list may help here when it comes to group photos.

Seppeltsfield winery wedding photography

Cheers to Beautiful Wedding Photos

Posing in front of the camera for almost the whole day can be nerve-wracking for some. Unless you don’t want photos on your wedding day, then you just need to work your way through this. The tips we mentioned above can help you be more comfortable in front of the camera and have amazing photos you can look back on.

For the best wedding photography in Adelaide and around Australia, Sven Studios is here for you. You don’t need to be camera shy with us because our professional photographers will help you be comfortable behind the lens. Let us take the best wedding photos for you. Contact us today!

 

SvenStudios client preview room

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As I recently moved house and desired a place to showcase my work in front of my clients, I decided to convert the lounge room in my new house into a home cinema of sorts that doubles as my client preview room. If you’re thinking of choosing me as your wedding or portrait photographer, rest assured you’re going to be pleased with the images I present you in my new preview room. The benefit of having a preview room like this is that my clients now have a far better understanding of the quality and overall aesthetic of the images I produce and show them. I’m also able to show new prospective clients my previous work in detail far surpassing anything I was able to earlier.

SvenStudios client preview room

SvenStudios client preview room

SvenStudios preview room

I invite anyone who would like to have a look at my work, both potential and prior clients, to come visit and I will utilize my new client preview room. I can even set up some music if you like. 🙂

ABIA Accredited wedding photographer

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As part of my continued quest to provide better wedding photography services to my clients, SvenStudios has become an ABIA accredited supplier. The Australian Bridal Industry Academy (ABIA) was founded in 1997 to protect the bridal customer and promote the bridal supplier. Their goal is to provide prospective brides with first hand accounts and reliable reviews regarding wedding suppliers they may consider hiring for their wedding.

I have attained the status of a first year ‘appointed bridal industry associate’ due to recent brides and grooms who have reviewed me on the ABIA portal. Almost every wedding that takes place is registered with ABIA, and after the day the organisation invites the newly weds to review any suppliers they may have employed on their day. My ABIA Accredited status is a representation of clients who have rated, reviewed and recommended my business. In fact, despite only joining ABIA in the last 2 months, according to my ABIA listing  I have achieved a rating from previous brides of 94% and was a nominee for the 2016 South Australian wedding photographer of the year.

I am very much looking forward to the opportunity that ABIA represents in providing a national, transparent portal for new clients to read about the quality of service I provide my clients. I also look forward to being a nominee next year! The ABIA awards are unique in that they are awarded solely on the reviews of wedded couples after their wedding day based on 4 criteria –  Quality of Product, Quality of Service, Value for Money and Attitude of Staff. So the awards are given out not by merit of technical photographic prowess like the AIPP awards, but more the service side of weddings, which I believe to be just as important! I am already a multiple award winning photographer for my technical ability, so I’m looking forward to being recognised for my service!

ABIA Accredited wedding photographer

Wedding nerves and overcoming them

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Just imagine your wedding day, about to walk down the aisle to the arms of the man of your dreams, or you’re standing there at the altar waiting 20mins after your ceremony was supposed to start, and wondering if your fiancée is going to show up at all…

View from behind bride

A lot of planning has gone in to today. A lot of work. A lot of energy and emotion. You’ve had a great morning getting ready and you know this will be the best day of your life… then why are you about to choomp your nails off from the knuckle? You stomach feels as though it’s down by the beach and you’d love to join it.

If the world ran on logic, you know this day will run well, you’ll be partying about at your reception in about 3 hours time after having had your wedding photography taken by the best wedding photographer in Adelaide, so what is there to worry about?

Overcoming wedding nerves

All of this is a good thing and is completely natural. Being nervous keeps us alive and wedding nerves just show us that your senses are on overdrive! you notice that little bird singing that annoying song, your heartbeat, the tick of the giant grandfather clock in the entrance way to the church. You notice things you wouldn’t normally.

Your nerves are what have enabled you to get everything the way it is, the way you’ve dreamt it should be and the way it’s going down today. You’re not nervous you are EXCITED. Tell yourself that. Your body has no way of telling the difference between “I am nervous!” and “I am excited!” So instead of getting anxious, try to train yourself to tell yourself how excited you are instead, as it’s all the same thing neurologically speaking.

You have nothing to be nervous about, your wedding nerves are just you being excited about all your hard work coming into fruition. Get out there and marry your life partner!

Bride and Groom

How I approach my Wedding Photography

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How I approach my Wedding Photography

Each wedding is different, however somethings at wedding just don’t change. This is a general rundown on how I approach my wedding photography on any given wedding day.

Generally speaking, depending on the time of your ceremony, the way I like to approach my wedding photography is that I will start at the groomsmen house first for around 30-45 minutes and start taking photos of the preparations going on there. Often the men will be milling about waiting for something to happen, so I can be that something, if you’re looking for preparation photos of course. Usually the traditional shots taken here are the rings being exchanged between the groom and best man, adjustment of ties by family members, the party together doing something, possibly heckling the groom, or standing together, jumping, etc. This serves as a bit of a warm-up for the rest of your day really, getting used to me being there taking photos in a relaxed environment is something to take the nerves off.

Bride holding bouquet

After, I head to the bridal party’s place hopefully before the dress gets put on, as I like to take a photo of it draped over some furniture or a bed. This often happens 1-2 hours before we head out to the ceremony. As it’s being put on, photos of little things like makeup, baby photos, something old, new, borrowed, blue, etc are taken. Then the big reveal and the girls together, etc. Much like the groomsmen photos, but I usually have much more time with the bridal party.

I then follow the cars to the ceremony where I try to turn as invisible as possible, can be difficult depending on the venue. For instance a church has very limited areas to move about in, where as a beach I could run about as much as I like without getting in the way. The traditional shots like you two together at the altar, speeches, vows, exchanging of rings, first kiss are taken then. After, depending on where you are going to be signing the marriage certificate, photos of this, or shots of you walking back down the aisle with people congratulating you/throwing petals/rice, etc then the certificate. All depends, each wedding is unique, but the same in their own ways.

Inglewood Inn Wedding Photo

After is my time to shine, after I take any shots with family and friends you desire, I’m able to take the bridal party away into any locations you may wish to take photos in. Be it a garden you like, the beach, an old building, etc. Some locations require special permission to take photos in, so I will inform you if your location is one such place, but generally speaking any place open to the public 24/7 is ok. There are always exceptions, so I’ll make sure you know. This is the time where I take the photos you would usually hang up on your wall. I’m able to pose and direct you in ways that look natural to take the best shots possible.

Bride and groom throught the vineyards
Crozier street wedding photo

Then comes the reception. If you’re willing to feed me (because I tend to get a bit hungry by then) I can stay right throughout the night, usually up until after the first dance. I take photos of everyone there, people enjoying themselves, you cutting the cake, any traditional shots like the first dance, throwing the bouquet/garter, the entrance, etc.

first dance in blue smoke

Generally speaking the photos themselves take about 1-2 months to process, can be more depending on the season, and they arrive in a custom box. You may get somewhere between 600-800 edited photos. I will supply the original colour version, but I may have used my artistic licence to make it look vintage, or black and white. In which case you will receive all different versions on the USB.

I’m more than willing to answer any questions regarding my process, so don’t be afraid to ask. You can get in contact with me on this website.