Photography is hard work!

Tired Hunter

Well I finished the wedding shoot at around 10pm on Saturday night and was home around 11pm. Considering I left the house at 11am, I’m thinking that’s a very long day.

You know, truthfully it was all very worth it. I really did enjoy myself and learned SO much from the experience.. I’m really glad I did it.

I’m not posting any wedding photos just yet, as I have to get permission and show the newlyweds before I do. I can tell you this however.. I love them! Not to toot my own horn, but with the help of Liz.. I really think we captured their day extremely well, and also got some extremely cool shots.

I think I told everyone that asked how nervous I was heading into the day.. I seriously could not go 15 minutes without thinking about it.. especially as the time drew closer. I could have been worse than the bride!

Overall, I took over 1400 shots.. myself and Liz woke up and went through them and narrowed that down to 650-ish.. and now I’m touching those up and really getting down to the nitty-gritty. I figure we’ll have over 300 presentable shots if not more for them, which I think is pretty darn good for a first attempt.

I had a few goals during this first wedding shoot.. and I think I accomplished them:

1. capture the day – shoot it like I would want my own wedding day captured and make sure they will be happy to look at them 50 years from now.
2. have fun – if it’s too much like work, it likely isn’t something that I should be doing.. have to enjoy myself
3. try not to forget any shots! – I believe I did get most of what people were looking for, there were a few shots I would have liked to have gotten and missed.. but I guess that happens with every wedding

Besides that.. it was a great way to spend a beautiful Saturday. It was extremely hot and I was sweating like a madman. My #1 tip to anyone else considering doing something like this is that they should have an assistant.. and a good one. Without Liz at my side, I know that I could not have even come close to doing this wedding. That being said, I can honestly say that my confidence has grown immensely as far as photography goes and I’m seriously considering it as a side business. We’ll see how the feedback is on this one first though… can’t wait to post them up and have people comment.