Berkshire and Hampshire Wedding Photographer

Wedding Photography in Berkshire and Hampshire

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I am a documentary wedding photographer based in Reading, Berkshire. I have been doing this full time for over 27 years and have photographed over 1000 weddings during this time.

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Thanks - Neil (March 2011)

Equipment

February 20, 2009 5:56 pm Posted in for photographers, for the bride and groom

I’ve just checked out my equipment for tomorrow’s wedding and thought this would be a good opportunity to go through how I work.

I constantly have nightmares about not having enough equipment or it malfunctioning. On top of this there’s the worry about the car breaking down, getting lost……..

When I’m actually shooting I carry as little as possible, just the camera (Canon 5d Mk II) and a small crumpler bag (top right). In this I carry equipment I might need immediately such as lenses, spare batteries, flash gun, CF cards…

Then in the larger bag I keep all my back up equipment and will leave this in the car boot or somewhere safe at the venue. Basically I have 4 spare cameras (3 canon 5d’s and 1 20d), spare flash gun, spare lens (a bog standard 28-135 which would cover me for most situations), spare camera batteries, flash gun batteries, extra CF cards. Everything is double checked thoroughly and all cameras are set exactly the same, so in the event of equipment malfunction I can just change quickly without thinking.

The smaller bag includes the Leica M8 plus zeiss lenses 21mm, 35mm and a Leica 75mm. I tend to use the Leica during the reception meal when things are less hectic and I can take relaxed candids.

Finally on the left is my i phone with all details entered – e mails, phone numbers, websites of the bride and groom, parents, venues…Likewise I enter all the venue addresses on the sat nav and also print out pages from google maps.

That’s about it ! Quite a lot to sort out, possibly overkill. But I can’t afford to take any chances and is why, in 25 years of photographing weddings, I’ve not had any disasters.