MinAZ
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I wonder if anyone has tried this, and what the results were like. Just curious.
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Can you shoot a wedding with a kit lens and entry-level DSLR?
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The Sage Knows
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The plaintiff sued the photographer and Judge Joe Brown agreed:
https://www.thephoblographer.com/20...own-dont-use-a-rebel-for-wedding-photography/
Bit tongue in cheek and the actual video has been pulled probably due to copyright infringement but you get the idea.
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SoCalWill
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An entry level body and another $100 for the 50mm f/1.8 would do.
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fishy wishy
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What do you think the results will look like?
Higher depth of field and more noise. And probably more subject blur, exposure and composition mistakes, because there's probably a reason why the person hasn't earnt enough money to get better kit yet.
It would be a brave or stupid person to put up their wedding photos on the web to show that it can be done this way, but somebody somewhere must have done it. If you do, you're saying to all amateurs "Hey! Join in! Let's make it a race to the bottom!"
The expense of doing photography work isn't just in the time you're taking photos according to the minimum wage. There's PP time, travel time, equipment costs, insurance costs, the markup of your own expertise and more. You could do a wedding for $150 but you might regret it, especially when you want to charge more.
Higher depth of field and more noise. And probably more subject blur, exposure and composition mistakes, because there's probably a reason why the person hasn't earnt enough money to get better kit yet.
It would be a brave or stupid person to put up their wedding photos on the web to show that it can be done this way, but somebody somewhere must have done it. If you do, you're saying to all amateurs "Hey! Join in! Let's make it a race to the bottom!"
The expense of doing photography work isn't just in the time you're taking photos according to the minimum wage. There's PP time, travel time, equipment costs, insurance costs, the markup of your own expertise and more. You could do a wedding for $150 but you might regret it, especially when you want to charge more.
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I've seen it done. The results were unimpressive.
Mike CH
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I was wondering about that, too.
”It’s the photographer, not the gear”
What’s so radically different about weddings that that isn’t true any longer?
There are shots within any genre that you can’t get without high end equipment. So it appears to me that knowing what to attempt and what not is key, working with the known limitations and not against.
Maybe even make the limitations part of the style? Just like if you were shooting the wedding with a keyhole camera, or a smartphone, or with Lomography equipment...
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contadorfan
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There seem to be plenty of bad wedding photographers who think they can shoot weddings because they have sophisticated gear. If I were a bride needing budget wedding services, I'd rather have a good photographer with entry level gear than a bad photographer with top notch gear.
Exactly.
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Labe
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I have used ,
sony nex3 with 18-55, nex7 +18-55, A6000 with 16-50
Nikon D90 +18-105 with sb600, D3300 with 18-55vr2 and sb600
Olympus epl1 with 14-42, em5 with 12-50 with flash, em10 with 14-42ez and metz48,
em10mk2 with 14-150 plus metz.
what a lot forget is not everyone like the water thin dof . Group shots you stop down anyway.
sony nex3 with 18-55, nex7 +18-55, A6000 with 16-50
Nikon D90 +18-105 with sb600, D3300 with 18-55vr2 and sb600
Olympus epl1 with 14-42, em5 with 12-50 with flash, em10 with 14-42ez and metz48,
em10mk2 with 14-150 plus metz.
what a lot forget is not everyone like the water thin dof . Group shots you stop down anyway.
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Of course everybody's friend is the tablet shooter in the front row.
You can shoot with a basic dslr such as the pentax k-50 but it lacks a duel card slot, so even with the limited selection of lenses that it can mount, without the extra card slot you are taking a chance over a k-3 mark ii or K-1. so it may not be what you want if you are charging money for the photos.
The good news about the kit lens,
you can use that to shoot weddings with the proper body. You just have to see if that is your preferred lens for the particular venue.
You can shoot with a basic dslr such as the pentax k-50 but it lacks a duel card slot, so even with the limited selection of lenses that it can mount, without the extra card slot you are taking a chance over a k-3 mark ii or K-1. so it may not be what you want if you are charging money for the photos.
The good news about the kit lens,
you can use that to shoot weddings with the proper body. You just have to see if that is your preferred lens for the particular venue.
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Schrodingers_cat
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I saw the results not too long ago from a shoot where one photographer was using, I think, a D5 and the other some sort of pinhole camera. The results from the pinhole camera were very unique and professionally produced and in my mine somewhat superior.
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