{"id":204,"date":"2009-04-03T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog2\/2009\/04\/03\/how-to-improve-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T19:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T11:04:43","slug":"how-to-improve-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/how-to-improve-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"How to improve (part II )"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Following my previous post about how to improve as a photographer, I would like now to be more specific and look at the different aspects to improve as wedding day photographer.<\/p>\n

How can I become a better wedding photographer? If you ask yourself this question then it’s already a good start: where there’s a will there’s a way!<\/p>\n

There are thousands of wedding photographers out there, I have never wanted to be average, I want to be the best! This pushes me to always look out for ways to improve my skills and my photos.<\/p>\n

There are a few things you need to have in the first place: you need to have the will to improve and you must be a people’s person people, if you don’t then look at landscape or product photography…<\/p>\n

Then you need to be fast, real fast<\/p>\n

I have never been so impressed by posed shots, I do literally thousands of them every month as part of my job for western design, one of the top wedding company in Taiwan ( www.westgown.blogspot.com) and even then I still keep it natural and try to show the love of my customers. The idea is that a posed shot can be repeated, we need them, but what I’m looking for is candid photography, a photo that tells a story shows an emotion, this is what I look for.<\/p>\n

The way is see it: anybody with a minimum of training can take a good posed shot of the bride and groom, but coming up with great candids on a regular basis takes much more than chance, it takes skills, the kind that are not taught in photography schools.<\/p>\n

And for this you need to be ready at all times, full of energy and keep your eyes open.<\/p>\n

Don’t count to three!!! Just take a couple of shots and be ready to take some more as soon as the people believe it’s over, that’s when you catch the best expression.<\/p>\n

Every wedding is a challenge, it drives and pushes me to be better.<\/p>\n

Great photography does not mean great commercial success, it’s a sad fact, may feel unfair sometimes as we see poor quality photographers enjoying great commercial success, but those photographers have something to teach, if not about photography, about marketing yourself! <\/p>\n

Because in this business photography is our product and the quality of the product is not proportional to the price of that very same product.<\/p>\n

I will talk about this in another post, maybe in a couple of weeks as I’m going to be quite busy for a while as I travel to Europe for some assignments.<\/p>\n

Good luck, never stop learning!<\/p>\n

Nico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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