Yeah, you read it right.. I’m going to be a wedding photographer next week! No pressure Lenny.. JEEESUS!
I’m hoping beyond hope that everything turns out really well as it could certainly lead into more ‘gigs’ and also be an absolute huge boost to my photography ‘ego’ 
Last night I had the pleasure of heading up to the area in which the wedding and pictures are going to take place, I never realized how beautiful some areas of the Island really are when you get out there and take a look around. I was in Kinkora, and although it really is a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ type of town, it is very close to the Confederation Bridge, as well as numerous beautiful farm landscapes and a really picturesque area (on a sunny day of course..which.. umm..well.. it wasn’t yesterday)
So now I’m in search of a new wider portrait lens. I have a few options which I’m going to try to exhaust.
- buy one (not going to happen as they are over $1000 for a good one I believe
- rent one (I’ve called a few spots and no one seems to know where to get one rented on the island, there is a spot online however I can try)
- borrow one (this is my optimal choice. I will pay someone to borrow a nice lens for sure.. to rent costs a lot more obviously)
- skip it, use my kit lens (I decided when I accepted this gig that I wanted to use a better lens, and if it costs me 1/2 of what I’m going to get paid for the gig.. I’m not going to use the damn kit lens!)
One thing that I’m doing for this wedding which I think is common practice now with a lot of photographers is put all the pictures on a disk, or a card for them and let them do the selection & printing. Back in the older non-digital days, print outs are where the photographers really made a lot of money as they would charge abnormal sums for prints done by either themselves or another company. For example if a photographer charged$50 for an 8×10, they likely could get it done for $25 or so which would have netted themselves another $25 for their hard work. I’m not looking to do that as I believe they should be able to shop around and find the best price and spot for their prints, it’s really easy with all the online photo labs anyhow. Then they can get huge blowups if they so choose, or simply get one print and put the rest in a digital frame, or maybe one of those keychains.. ha ha ha.
One thing I AM looking forward to is the post-processing of all my shots. I would consider myself a semi-professional Photoshop user, and as such.. I’m not worried if the lighting is a bit off, or if some of the shots aren’t perfectly cropped or whatever.. I can do that afterwards without issue!
So I basically have two things I have to focus on before August 1st. Lens, and the shots.. as I mentioned earlier, I did get a chance to go out and see where I will be taking the photos.. so that’s going to help immensily, if you have any absolutely favorite wedding shots that you would like me to check out. Leave a comment below and I’ll certainly check it out… would be cool to find as many good poses as I can for my first time doing it.