{"id":805,"date":"2009-04-05T23:13:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T05:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetneil.com\/tangents\/?p=805"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:41:06","slug":"wedding-photography-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wedding-photography-homework\/","title":{"rendered":"wedding photography &#8211; and some homework .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/weddings\/Katie-Keith-1106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of the questions that I&#8217;m most often asked about here, relate to wedding photography.\u00a0 Advice on a whole range topics such as posing people, business advice, album design .. and sometimes even lighting.\u00a0\u00a0 Amusingly enough, I sometimes get asked this a few days before the newbie wedding photographer is going to shoot a first wedding.\u00a0\u00a0 Regardless of the photographer&#8217;s experience level though, my advice is usually fairly succinct &#8230; that it is indeed time to do some homework.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Really, if you need solid advice on photographing weddings, whether artistic, technical or business related, your most reliable source of information is a book.\u00a0 Yup, my advice then is to not idly surf the web and fire off questions, but to do some serious homework .. starting with a good book or two.\u00a0\u00a0 And for around $25, an informative book is an unbeatable and sound investment in learning more about photography.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the books I frequently recommend to others:<\/p>\n<p>The first one here, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0817456023?tag=planeneilphot-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=0817456023&amp;adid=01WSM0CPWNA7ZV9CMAF3&amp;\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>George Schaub and Ken Sklute<\/strong><\/a> is the book I always push on anyone who needs help with\u00a0lighting and posing; ideas for portraits; as well as the essential images we need to get on a wedding day.<\/p>\n<p>The following two authors &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1592004717?tag=planeneilphot-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1592004717&amp;adid=0Y6QB1N23J4G7DM4Z9Z8&amp;\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Paul Gero<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1600592074?tag=planeneilphot-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1600592074&amp;adid=0DD1VRP76AGYYX884Y6N&amp;\"><strong>Michelle Turner<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; both have excellent overviews\u00a0of the\u00a0modern style of wedding photography. I&#8217;d happily recommend either book.\u00a0In fact, get both!<\/p>\n<p>And of course, there is this book on <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/about\/books\/\">Flash Photography Techniques<\/a> that I would recommend.\u00a0 ; )<br \/>\nAnd more <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/flash-photography-techniques\/photography-books\/\">recommended books on the topic of flash photography and lighting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But any of these are good books to dip into for inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the questions that I&#8217;m most often asked about here, relate to wedding photography.\u00a0 Advice on a whole range topics such as posing people, business advice, album design .. and sometimes even lighting.\u00a0\u00a0 Amusingly enough, I sometimes get asked this a few days before the newbie wedding photographer is going to shoot a first&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wedding-photography-homework\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read more inside&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1,45],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2552,3251,1199,1140,1020,2074,5164,7602,1226,1224],"class_list":{"0":"post-805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-resources","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"category-wedding-photography","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52583,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/52583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}