From the course: Learning Wedding Photography
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Reviewing essential gear
In the next few movies, we're going to talk about gear, and here in this first movie we're going to focus in on some of the essentials, some of the essential gear that you need when photographing a wedding. And here's the good news. You don't need a lot of gear. Let's first talk about camera bodies and lenses. Now, if you have a camera body, almost anything will do, even if it's an entry-level digital SLR. Typically the images that come off those sensors are good. They're good enough for photographing a wedding. So, you want to have a camera body that you can rely on. You also perhaps want a couple of lenses. When it comes to thinking about lenses, you really want to think about your vision. What type of images do you want to capture? Typically what you will want is you want something that has the ability to capture a wider perspective of a scene. So that you can get those group shots, those family photographs, photographs of people at a table or just the establishing images which…
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