How I Photograph Weddings as a Street Photographer - Tony Ray Jones Shooting Approach
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2019
- How I Photograph Weddings as a Street Photographer: In this video, I talk about how I see the correlation between Wedding Photography and Street Photography.
Using the documented shooting approach of Tony Ray Jones, I'll explain how the way we photography on the streets can aid us when photographing documentary weddings.
Details of my talks at the 2019 Photography show can be found here: bit.ly/2O2ma3d
In this video I talk about the great photographer, Tony Ray-Jones and his shooting approach notes:
Be More Aggressive
Get More Involved
Stay with the subject matter
Take Simpler Pictures
Relate Background to Subject
Vary Composition and Angles
Be more aware of composition
Don’t take boring pictures
Get in closer
Don’t shoot too much
Not all eye level
I explore in depth how I use those guidelines in Street Photography, but also how I incorporate them into my documentary wedding photography.
At the end of the video is another full-length wedding Photofilm, so hang around to the end if you wish to see that.
As ever, please feel free to leave comments below and I'll do my best to get back to you as soon as I can.
Oh, and don't forget our new podcast: www.fujicast.co.uk
Happy Snapping!
Kevin
[Spanish and English Subtitles]
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I gained my LBIPP & LMPA in the early 1980s! I'm confident that your efforts at Wedding Photography would have been laughed out of the building! Snapshots at a Wedding is not Wedding Photography!
Luckily, perhaps in part of my 'snapshots' I've achieved my associateship and beyond and been a judge for many panels including the MPA. I've also been to places as far afield as Argentina, Japan, America and Africa talking about my 'snapshots'. Luckily we don't all have the same view of photography - it would be a boring world if we did.
One thing I am very much aware of though is that one person's passion is another person's negativity. It's a shame, because style and appreciation of images (in my opinion) should be something people consider and, even if it's not to their liking, understand that we aren't all the same.
Today, in fact, I had maybe 400 people come to listen to me speak about my 'snapshots' at the photography show. I'm not naive enough to think they all loved the images, but much like I don't like fried eggs, I'd never tell my wife she was wrong to eat them.
There speaks a person who may not realise that lots of people wore shell suits in the 80’s and they were laughable, so not everything that was good in the 80s is good now.
But I guess you are still wearing shell suits.
I'm not sure what you're actually getting at Stephen. 'L' is the lowest qualification on the ladder - correct? You gained it (but presumably didn't go any further otherwise you would have said so) nigh on FORTY YEARS ago and yet with your comment you still seem to think you're an authority on wedding photography? Do you not think that it may have moved on a bit on those four decades?
Actually, I get it now. Given how awful most wedding photography was in the 1980s you're actually giving Kevin a compliment. Silly me!
@@robgillespiephoto you are assuming I have stayed in Photography as my Profession! Not so! To suggest that Wedding Photography, as a Specialism was bad in the good old days says more about you than us oldies! I did not need to progress in the Qualification route, to quote you, because it was more about ego than ability, and I also managed 12 years Lecturing in the Subject at 'A' level, my main thrust in the Profession as to put my two Daughters through Private Schooling, rather than stick in an ever evolving trade! As to modern Wedding Photography, I would remind you that Couples wanted Fashion / Art shots NOT some plonker running around taking 500+ snaps of everything that happens? We left those shots to ' Uncle Bill ' who was not good enough to take the wedding itself, but could capture the atmosphere? We didn't know how our shots were turning out by simply looking at the DSLRs back, so had to Know about exposure etc., and compose correctly first time! As a reference, WE were expected to hit the correct exposure +/- .5 - 1 exp unit? Can you honestly say what exposure you should be using, without resorting to your histogram? Can you even use a light meter? I bet you don't even know the difference between Depth of Field and Depth of Focus? Don't jump to Google, for an easy answer, just tell me the diameter of a circle of confusion? No cheating!!
@@jamescrockford5122 is this the best you can come up with, shell suits? Sad little millennial snowflake? That's the new epithet isn't it? I taught the bloody subject for 12 years, not ran around with a glorified auto everything on a strap!
"I'm here to capture these moments, not destroy them." So important.
Brilliant. Love the wedding video. I rarely take images of people but when I do I like them to be of a documentary style. With this in mind I took my X-Pro2 to my nephew’s wedding in March. I applied everything I’d learned from your videos over the years and was delighted with the results. More importantly so were the bride and groom. All black and white of course and at times using an ISO of 12,800! I’ll never be a people shooter. I do landscapes. But I had a great time and captured some of the best images I’ve ever taken. Thank you Kevin.
Love your work and these vlogs. Thank you for sharing.
This is gold. Thanks for putting this out there!
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts behind wedding shoots
Surprisingly I watched this whole video. So happy I did.
Quality advice and great inspiration thank you! Really appreciate it 😁
Great video Kevin, simple yet effective advice 👍
My approach to weddings from a Street Photographer perspective. Any questions, leave them below :-) Hope to see some of you at The Photography Show this weekend.....
Love this video man, really speaks to me and my values as a Street photographer who shoots candid weddings as an income! The 2 just go so well together and I enjoy shooting so much when I switched to this mindset
Yet another great video Kevin! Thanks a lot for sharing your tips and encouraging us to go out and shoot. Your work is superb!
Wonderful video packed with great advice/tips !!! Thanks for sharing your insights.
What a great inspirational photographer you are. Thanks for sharing!
Another breath of fresh air Kevin ! This is what photography is about and in a brilliant , uncluttered way. Cheers !
Amazing advice Kevin on this approach to wedding photography, keep the videos coming!
great tips and inspiration. thanks for sharing. your talent and passion for photography are a motivation.
One of your best videos ever ! - Tons of good advices, excellent insights - all accompanied by some of your great photos. Truly inspiring. Thank you !
amazing video and photos Kevin. Thank you for sharing it. Also the point at around 19:53 discussing boring/mundane scenes is something that I constantly battle with internally; it was great to hear your very valid and eye opening viewpoint.
Excellent tutorial sir. I very much appreciate your insight on capturing the moments. Thank you so much
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge Kevin! I'm so appreciative.
Thank you!
Kevin. Another fantastic insight into your incredible talents. Thank you.
No problem, thank you!
Love it! Your humility is SO refreshing in this age of influencers
I loved watching this
Thanks, mate. Your work has been an inspiration for me and many other wedding photographers. Keep it up!
Thanks, Fernando.
That's a top list from T R-J, I saw it in an exhibition in Liverpool a few years ago alongside Martin Parr's work. Always thought it was a useful document to keep a note of and very relevant to today's photography.
Kevin, thank you so much for this information. You've actually inspired me to become a documentary wedding photographer. Love your videos keep it up.
Thanks, Michael.
Very inspiring! Thankyou for sharing this.
Kevin, thoroughly enjoyed this video, one of the best and most informative that i've seen in a long time. Thanks for posting and I love your work, regards!
Thanks, Martin. I appreciate it.
Thanks for this, so many ideas i have learnt, thanks
Great video Kevin. Really interesting, love the slideshow at the end as well!
Thanks, Murray. Hope you are well mate.
Another superb video Kevin. I love to hear about others philosophy and approach. I was really interested to hear you shoot so few frames.
The wedding at the end was superb, but a bit too fast for me. I'd prefer half it a third of the number in that time.
Looking forward to your future vlogs!
Great vid. So much food for thought.
Well, that was wonderful. Glad I stumbled on your channel.
And great candid images. Subscribed. Cheers.
Thanks, Carl!
Thank you so much for this inspiration!!!
Nice and informative as always Kevin!
I would really like to see >how< you shoot. Ie how often change lenses, how do you move around etc. A video on that would be awesome.
Keep it up!
Kevin - you captured the heart of the wedding ad most certainly have followed your formula for success. I find your particular style not only appropriate for the time, but more often the requested candid, more modern style. There is a place for classic "stack em' like so many chess pieces and worry about the blinkies" style also for those that like it but I find your documentary style fresh, interesting, and more memorable for B&G, family and friends in attendance and isn't that what it's all about? Great job!
One of your best videos, one of the best photography videos on UA-cam ever, period. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks! Comments like that make the effort worthwhile :-)
Brand new Fuji user here. You’re content is a treasure and inspiration to a dad seeking to capture candid precious moments of his children and wife. Been using your Black and White Film One for 24 hours now and I’m thrilled. I can focus on composition, review JPGs straight out of camera for keepers and use your presets to edit my RAW for top picks only. It’s a beautifully simple workflow that gives me more time with my family and less time post processing. Thank you thank you.
You prove once again why you are one of the great You Tube creators teaching us the art of photography. Great stuff. Thanks.
Thank you very much for your kind words and support. It means a lot.
Love your wedding photos. Like you, I shoot everything monochrome from the camera because not only has it helped me find the light, but I feel it also helps with composition.
Yes, absolutely.
i really enjoy your YT vids. there is always a lessons. there is always a vibe. there is always a bit of humanity. thank you for the effort and the sharing. i am an appreciative subscriber. thumbs up.
Thanks for watching!
Kevin, as if it weren’t enough that I almost always pick up a tip or two from your videos, but I can always bank on feeling a bit up-lifted. Thanks and keep-um coming.
Thanks, Jim. I appreciate the support.
Thanks Kevin, just great!
Top notch Kevin, myself and a fellow photog are both admirers of your work and also use The Fuji system. Your style comes up with our regular coffee catch ups. The principles of story telling you talk about with wedding and street are bang on, and I even found myself using them for a surf life saving event recently. Cheers.
Thanks, Trev.
What a great lesson on how to construct an informative, friendly talk on a subject by a professional with a distinctive individual style. Enjoyable all though. Thanks again for posting this, even as an old amateur found it so interesting how methods have evolved.
Thank you for the support and kind words! :-)
Damn, All those picture is so good!
Kevin, This one of the most instructive YT videos I've seen that really goes to the heart of the matter- telling a story, framing, composition and a more documentary approach to wedding photography. I love your examples! Sorry, but I'm rooting for Ireland all the way from San Francisco.! G
Thanks, Gerard and at least one of us will be happy by the end of the game :-)
Super film Kevin and really interesting to hear how you shoot as always. The whys and hows behind pictures are always fascinating to me. "Don't over shoot" is such an important take away from this film.
Neale James definately agree with that sentiment - everyone seems to overshoot to a ridiculous degree now.
Watching this video again...really love your style Kevin. I've gone back over so many of your videos as I start to do paid photography work. Really enjoy both your photography, and your instructional technique. For every snide comment you may get, there are a hundred of 'me' loving the time, effort and passion you put into your craft.
Glad you like them! That's very kind.
I have heavily relied on your videos and website for many pointers when it comes to shooting weddings. It also has been a huge help for me when shooting events. Thank you so much for all of your help. You could charge for all of your knowledge and it definitely would be well worth the price. But you have provided it to us all for free and I am truly grateful!! I can't thank of another photographer that has impacted me as much as you have. 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thank you very much for your kind words.
I loved watching this, photographing a wedding is recording family history, the images will be viewed many times over, some of the people in the images may well have passed away but remain intact in the bride and grooms memory.
Thank you for this, it is my view that this IS how a wedding should be shot, people are not cardboard cut outs all wearing the same " Rabbit caught in the headlight " pose...you are talented.
Thank you Jillian :-)
Great video Kevin.I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot. whether you are the best photographer in the world or not but certainly you are a wonderful photographer.
Thank you, Saifur.
I like that you do different and I am learning from your pursuit and perspective. This is the style I want to pursue as well. Keep it up.
Go for it!
First! Time to watch it now :-)
Excellent Tutorial, Sir!
Amazing shots.
Thank you!
Thank you, Subhamay.
@@kevin_mullins Please upload more...
This is prolly one of the best videos on Photography! Bar none!
Thanks, Sudeep.
Greatvideo - Love your photography!
Thanks, Simeon.
Dude, I like your work so much!!! I'm stuck in life trying to photograph street but trying to pay the bills with weddings. Thanks for sharing your experiences!
Thanks, Rafael.
Hi Kev, love your pictures! Don’t agree with your theory that we will have no pictures in the future of how life used to be. I was surprised to learn that more digital photos were taken (typically) in the last three days than were taken in the entire history of film. Everyone has a camera in their pocket and I’m sure history photos will be preserved and well documented for many years.
Very impressive explanation of your modus operandi Thank you Kevin
Thanks, Paul.
Very good video Kevin !
Great video and great opinions .Have you by any chance uploaded any videos how you edit your color raw pictures? I've seen one video about the black & white raw edit in Lightroom and another with your jpeg settings ,but your edited color pictures have some really good character.
Thank you for that one picture, I'm not regretting my decision of buying used x-m1 a few weeks ago. Haven't got the time to get it outside and use it yet, but now I'm looking forward to using it.
It's a lovely little camera. You'll have fun with it.
Great job thank you
Thanks Kev.
You Mentioned the X-M1. It was the Fuji camera that got me hooked on Fujifilm. I still have it and keep the 27mm "pancake" lens on it and keep it in my backpack.
Hi Kevin, a late comment, hope You read it though. One of Your best videos!! I honestly love Your photographs and admire Your ability to catch those unique and often deep emotional moments in Your pictures. One point I often struggle with is how to crop a picture. At what point reframing the picture makes it better? A good example is the photo at 22:06. I think I would habe cropped it on the right to cut out those two people and get the row of people centered and to give them the best impression without distraction. How do You decide? And do You crop Your pictures at all? ;-) All the best, Peter
Great video as always !!! You should do soon (please) a new video regarding how you setup your XT3 for a wedding day (street photography style ) !!! ;)
Great videos! I’ve learned so much. How do you decide when stacking subjects is okay? For example, 5:42 in this video.
love the organic feel of your shots, every time I watch one of your videos it makes me put away my DSLRs and drag out my old X100 and X10 😂😂
I had that feeling once..... and ended up selling all my DSLRs :-)
I'm doing my first wedding shoot next week with Fuji XT3, X-Pro2, 50mm F2, 16mm 1.4 and maybe Voigtländer 58mm 1.4 (if I can get my speedlight on a tripod installed in a corner and get some "official" portraits as well). I bought the Godox 350F and 685F especially because I though they were essential.
But your video was a great inspiration, because this is the kind of photography I would like to do, street/reportage and it looks like I do have the tools to do it.
dam your photos are great. Very inspiring
Kevin, great video on the similarities of street and wedding photography. My question is about setting your viewfinder to B&W. Do you do this regardless of whether you'll end up making a B&W image? Is the purpose to study the light better without the distractions from color info? Does it help control and maintain usable highlights and deep shadows? Thanks, Frank. NC
I just love this ethos Kevin. It seems new kit is being thrown at us from every angle with pixel counts ramping up and higher specs being the paramount consideration at times. What about simply taking pictures with the kit we've got? All I can boast right now is an old original x100 with a firmware update and an Olympus em 10 MK 2 with a few nice lenses. I couldn't really afford anything more expensive. I'd love an x100F one day, but alas, not yet. A story. I attended friends wedding a couple of months ago - and just took my old x100 along, set for black and white jpeg. Using your whole approach, I took many shots that day. The couple were completely blown away by them because I caught the 'moments' the professional photographer might have missed when he was busy elsewhere. Everything on this video I completely agree with. It's great to be able to upgrade your kit every couple of years, but if you can't - just love the gear you've got and get good with it. People still 'wow' at your shots.
Very true, Kevin. Cheers.
Beautiful photos (as always), and very interesting comments. And let's hope this year Saint Patrick is on holidays this Saturday. ;-)
Let's hope so 🤣
Thanks again - great video - very informative - will make a note of the rules/tips - really want to come to photography show but don't think will be able to - My biggest takeaway is using the tilt screen and shooting from the hip more so as not to disturb the scene - thanks again for all your great content.
I wanted to add love you at the end but my wife said don't - so I didn't
:-)
Another super inspiring video Kevin.... and Wales beat Ireland too. I'm an avid All Blacks fan so I think the world cup this year will be very interesting.
Yes, I can't wait for the World Cup.
Great pictures!
Thank you!
So you’re not the Kevin Mullins from the house across the fields from my grandmothers farm in County Westmeath then-with the comment about Wales v Ireland in March 2019 😀 I beleive the Welshmen pipped us on the day by a point or two. Love your videos…you have me hopping between M and P on my dial mode like a rabbit. Keep up the great sharing Kevin.
Nope, not me (though my family hail from Cork originally) :-)
Great video. I need to figure out how to have my Fuji display in monochrome like you suggested.
Just use one of the black and white film simulations 😊
If you shoot RAW + JPG, and select Mono film simulation. The viewfinder will be Mono, and the JPG will be Mono, but the RAW will be colour.
I took pics at a 50th wedding anniversary for some rellies with your philosophy in mind. A pale imitation compared to your work but I did manage at least 5 cracking photos. It blew them away so thanks for sharing your thoughts and your work.
Thank you! Glad my stuff helped a little.
Love the whole doco style wedding shoot. Been involved in 3 weddings of friends and the 1st was interesting. My friend, a pro, had tasked me with doing the photojourno thing. Shooting bridal prep taught me a lesson re : gear. My colleagues shot with large dslr's and every time they went to shoot people would stop what they were doing and smile/pose! Whereas with my XE-1 I was largely ignored and therefore got the more spontaneous pics....lesson: learned....go small ;-) Oh and the way you weaved "Wales" and "winning" in a single sentence! :-O
Exactly. Small definitely helps. Whether that's a Fujifilm or Sony or just a smaller DSLR. It definitely helps. I have my fingers firmly crossed for Saturday.
Looking at the list, everything was clear except the last one: *No middle distance* , I was hoping for an explanation but I guess you didn't get that one either ;-)
Always refreshing watching your video's cause they are about Photography and not about gear, and those are getting rare nowadays.
18:42 woman in the fog. Deep bow !!!!
Thanks for sharing.
Yes, the middle distance one is a little less obvious. However, believe what he may mean is not using medium focal ranges of zooms or simply not getting close enough. Thanks for your kind words, as always.
Hey Kevin, great stuff as per usual. I was just wondering where about's you source your music from? Thanks in advance
Hi William. Link to the music is in the video description. Cheers
Kevin, are you always using the flip screen when not bringing the camera to the eye? Thankyou for such informative and inspiring videos!
Not always. I'd say I use the flip screen on the cameras that have it maybe 20% of the time. A lot of my work is on cameras without a flip screen of course.
12:48 what a powerful shot!
Thank you, Fidelis.
Another great video. Many thanks for the continued inspiration. Out of interest, do you ever get asked to take formal posed pictures as part of the package? Or is that something that gets taken off the menu right from the start. I can see a bride getting half way through the wedding.....”can you take a picture of me with the bridesmaids”. Do you tactfully decline? Or just humour them and delete it later?
It's really all part of the branding. Typically clients who don't want that come to me. That said - I'm not going to refuse the odd shot here and there, but if it looks like it's going to turn into a fashion shoot then I'll explain again why I'm there.
My only regret is that I can only give this one thumbs up.
Thank you.
Another example by Kevin of quality over quantity. Making videos only for giving practical and immensely useful advice. Thanks you! Btw, any plans of coming over to India?
Thanks, Rishabh. I did have a workshop organised in India but sadly it's not easy to get a working visa for such a trip so it was cancelled.
Great tips! Do you feel like the xt2 is still a good camera for weddings? Also what about the 23/50 f2s? Ever use those anymore or should one save up and get the 1.4/1.2 versions? Thanks!!
X-T2 is a great camera. I used it for two years without a problem. The F2 lenses are fine, but personally, I use the faster ones more often.
And also, if you shoot b&w.. can you later on change it back into color?..
I believe I’ve seen each one of your videos that come on UA-cam since I am one of your subscribers. I believe you said you shot all your work in black and white. So is one card slot use for black and white and the other for color? The reason I ask is because quite a few of your images or in Colors. I enjoy your video though.
thank you mr Mullins
Thanks Kevin - your best video ever in my opinion - Brilliant!! I’d be interested to know your average number of “Keepers” to images taken ratio and do you have a view on “an ideal” ? - thanks - Peter
Thanks, Peter. I'd say in Street, the percentages are much lower. Perhaps 1 in every 10 I might be happy with. And that doesn't necessarily mean I'd print or publish them. That number is even lower. For weddings, I'm aiming for 1 in every 3 images to get to the client these days - though often it's nearer 1 in 4 or 5.
Kevin Mullins - cheers Kevin, a higher ratio than I thought it would be...well much higher than mine! :- )
I'm not a documentary wedding photographer by any means, but all the knees on my wedding suits are threadbare, so I must be doing something right 😀 Nice video Kevin, thanks for sharing.
You are definitely doing lots right, Barry :-)
Hi Kevin, can you recommend some good places to get music for wedding photography slideshows? Thanks
I use Artlist for everything: bit.ly/2Vb0tAT
Great video. Thanks! Btw what lenses do you like shooting with on weddings?
Thanks, normally the 23 and 56mm lenses.
@@kevin_mullins thank you! 23 1.4?
I am planning to go in for xt3 which lens should i go in for instead of kit lens??
So you shoot RAW and view in black and white (to see the light).... Will the image still be in color? I like the idea of viewing in b&w if possible while color capture images, usually both jpg and raw on my Canon dslr D70 and mirrorless M50.
Yes, the RAW files will always be in colour (unless you are using something like a Leica Monochrome camera).