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CREATING A MASTER SCHEDULE
Planning your schedule is essential to smooth sailing on
the wedding day. The couple should know that if there are
delays, adjustments or deletions will have to be made to
the requested pictures. Good planning and an understanding
of exactly what the bride and groom want will help
prevent any problems.
ABOVE—Budgeting the time to create a portrait
like this takes advance planning. Jerry Ghionis
created this image with a 1/2 second exposure, two
flash exposures (one frontal and one behind the
couple) and a 17mm lens at f/4. LEFT—When
venues are either special or unusual, it’s a good
idea to get a few shots for album pages or simply
to supply to vendors later. Here, on site for a
Charles Maring wedding, Jennifer Maring took
the time to create a wonderful image of the boat
house/reception hall. The image was made with a
tripod-mounted Nikon D1X, and 17mm lens.
The image was exposed for 1/10 second at f/2.8.
You should know how long it takes for you to drive
from the bride’s home to the ceremony. Inform the bride
that you will arrive at least a 45 minutes to an hour before
she leaves. You should arrive at church at about the same
time as or a little before the groom, who should arrive
about a half-hour before the ceremony. At that time you
can make portraits of the groom and his groomsmen and
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