Joe Buissink Shooting Wedding Live on creativeLIVE

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How many shot do you think Joe shoots per wedding? 4000?

Way to many. I just saw the kids dancing before dinner and they must have shot 200+ images in 5min between the two of them.

Is it normal to take minimum 3-5 shots of everything at wedding?

Tigerkn wrote in post #16317437
Is it normal to take minimum 3-5 shots of everything at wedding?

Does it really matter if the clients are happy with the results?

No, it doesn't. I was just wondering if it is normal. I was not questioning the method

Don't know about anyone but I pretty much take that many of everything. It can mean the difference between a good shot and a great shot. Times that by the number of moments at a wedding and you've potentially gone from a few great shots to several.

Thanks Peter! Do you also carry a battery pack for your flash?

Tigerkn wrote in post #16317585
Thanks Peter! Do you also carry a battery pack for your flash?

No.

I shoot duplicates of anything important, but less now I trust my cameras focus systems more. I carry battery packs for every flash.

Ive made a concentrated effort of shooting less. Way less that whats going on in this video. I just think its not necessary and forces you to spend more time in front of the computer culling.

I have decided to consider composition and lighting as a priority and take far less shots. This season we are under 2000 for 2 shooters for an all day count. Keeper rates are about 80%. Photos are better and less work in front of a computer.

True it doesnt cost a dime to fire away unless you factor your time. But spending more time on the composition and lighting results in far less shots from us.

I got the girls to look at it this way. How many dress shots do you really need ? no need to click off 50 shots when they are only going to put 1 in the album. Shoot 4-5 really well composed shots and move on. Same for the shoes, flowers and all the stuff the photograph. Same for the formals. Take a few and make sure everyone's eyes are open and move on to another look.

Im still there all day doing my thing. But im getting better shots and im spending less time in front of a computer and less time editing images.

So, Ive seen a few guys like this now. I wont call it spray and prey because Joe obviously knows what he is doing. But I think its more show and affect for the newbs than anything else. Biff Ulm came to a seminar and he is one guy, natural light shooter, doesnt own a strobe, rarely shoots with a speed light, and he is clicking off 4000 shots for an 8 hr wedding...His logic is i want that one emotional shot and just the right amount of light.

My logic is-----learn to read and compose with the available light. compose a shot and find a good place to do it and, learn to anticipate and click off a few and move on.

Disagree with the mentality, but he is a fantastic photographer.

Man! How LONG is that speech! Good grief. lol

tim wrote in post #16317814
I shoot duplicates of anything important, but less now I trust my cameras focus systems more. I carry battery packs for every flash.

I will either add or switch to Nikon one day to know about the focus accuracy and ISO that I heard from Nikon Users.

umphotography wrote in post #16317979
Ive made a concentrated effort of shooting less. Way less that whats going on in this video. I just think its not necessary and forces you to spend more time in front of the computer culling.

I have decided to consider composition and lighting as a priority and take far less shots. This season we are under 2000 for 2 shooters for an all day count. Keeper rates are about 80%. Photos are better and less work in front of a computer.

True it doesnt cost a dime to fire away unless you factor your time. But spending more time on the composition and lighting results in far less shots from us.

I got the girls to look at it this way. How many dress shots do you really need ? no need to click off 50 shots when they are only going to put 1 in the album. Shoot 4-5 really well composed shots and move on. Same for the shoes, flowers and all the stuff the photograph. Same for the formals. Take a few and make sure everyone's eyes are open and move on to another look.

Im still there all day doing my thing. But im getting better shots and im spending less time in front of a computer and less time editing images.

So, Ive seen a few guys like this now. I wont call it spray and prey because Joe obviously knows what he is doing. But I think its more show and affect for the newbs than anything else. Biff Ulm came to a seminar and he is one guy, natural light shooter, doesnt own a strobe, rarely shoots with a speed light, and he is clicking off 4000 shots for an 8 hr wedding...His logic is i want that one emotional shot and just the right amount of light.

My logic is-----learn to read and compose with the available light. compose a shot and find a good place to do it and, learn to anticipate and click off a few and move on.

Disagree with the mentality, but he is a fantastic photographer.

Wow... under 2000 between 2 Shooters. That is very lean Mike. I average about 1500 solo.

NewCreation wrote in post #16318011
Man! How LONG is that speech! Good grief. lol

Yep it was a long one. Ton of opportunities to shoot the Guests 'candid'. The firework at the end was awesome.

memoriesoftomorrow wrote in post #16317572
Don't know about anyone but I pretty much take that many of everything. It can mean the difference between a good shot and a great shot. Times that by the number of moments at a wedding and you've potentially gone from a few great shots to several.

^^^ Liked.

If you cull quite a bit in camera on the wedding day as I do there is no extra time spent in post. Recently I've been coming home with 900-1200 shots in camera. I may have taken more but I'm not leaving with that many on my primary memory cards (I cull on the SD cards and don't touch the CF cards, both have full RAW saved to them). I then culling that on the computer to an average of about 600-850.

It is not just getting it right in camera as such it is getting it great in camera.

memoriesoftomorrow wrote in post #16319513
If you cull quite a bit in camera on the wedding day as I do there is no extra time spent in post. Recently I've been coming home with 900-1200 shots in camera. I may have taken more but I'm not leaving with that many on my primary memory cards (I cull on the SD cards and don't touch the CF cards, both have full RAW saved to them). I then culling that on the computer to an average of about 600-850.

It is not just getting it right in camera as such it is getting it great in camera.

Culling is the easiest and quickest part of the whole thing IMO. Doing it on the wedding day seems like a waste of time to me.