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Tips for Better Candid Photography

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Candid styles of photography are increasingly becoming popular both in general day to day photography but also in formal photographic cases. Below there are a number of tips to help photographers improve their ‘candid Wedding’ photography.

1. Take your Camera Everywhere

Probably the best way to take voluntary photographs is to always be ready to do so. For best candid shoots like to cary with a quality point and shoot camera that can whip out at a moments notice to capture the many opportunities for a good photo that life presents us with. Taking your camera with you everywhere also helps people to be more at ease with you capturing their photo. when capture it up it’s not a signal to them to pose but it’s a normal part of our interaction – this means that they are relaxed and the photos are natural.

2. Use a Long Zoom

Patently the further you are away from your subject the less likely they will be to know that you’re photographing them and the more natural and relaxed they’ll act. Using a telephoto lens or long zoom enables you to shoot from outside their personal space but keep the feeling of closeness in the shot you’re taking.

3. Kill the Flash

Possibly the most obvious way that you can signal to another person that you’re photographing them is to use a flash. There’s nothing like a sightless flash of light in the eyes to kill a moment. If possible (and it’s not always) attempt to photograph without the flash if you’re aiming for candid photo shots. When in lower light situations increase your ISO setting, use a faster lens, open up your space or if your camera has a ‘natural light mode’ turn it on. Confidently one or a combination of these approaches will help you blend into the background a little more.

4. Shoot lots

when you shoot multiple images quickly of a person you can sometimes get some surprising and natural shots that you’d have never gotten if you shot just one. Switch your camera to continuous shooting mode and shoot in crack of images and in doing so you’ll increase your chances of that perfect shot.

5. Position Yourself strategically

While Candid Photography is about capturing the indiscretion of a moment and getting that perfect shot at the right split second of time. So at a wedding get to the church early and think about what will happen during the public occasion and where will be best for you to stand to capture each moment. Thinking through these issues will save you having to run around displace yourself when you should be shooting images – it’ll also mean you take a whole heap less shots of the back of people’s heads.

6. Photograph People Doing things

Images of people doing things tend to be much more fascinating than people sitting passively doing nothing. For one your subject will be focussed upon something which adds power to a photo (and takes their focus off you) but it also puts them in context and adds an element of story to your image. Timing is everything in Candid shots so wait until they are abstracted from you and fully focussed upon what they are doing or who they are with and you’ll inject a foundness into your shots of them being unaware and that the viewer of your image is looking on unseen.

7. Photograph People with People

Decently very interesting happens when you photograph more than one person in an image at a time – it introduces relationship to the shot. Even if the two (or more) people are not really interacting in the shot it can add More and a sense of story into the viewing of the image. Of course preferably in candid shots you’d like some interaction between your subjects as that will add emotion into the shot also as we the viewer remark how the people are acting.

8. Shoot from the Hip

If your thread is aware that you’re there and that you have your camera out they might tense up or act a little unnaturally as they see you raising your camera to the eye. The beauty of digital cameras is that it doesn’t evaluate you anything to take lots of shots and it can be well worth shooting without raising your camera. To do this most efficient you might want to set your lens to a wider angle setting to make up for any aiming problems you might have.

9. Mix up your Perspective

The extra beauty of shooting from the hip is that it gives you a slightly different perspective to take the shot from. This adds to the candid nature of the wedding shots. In fact sometimes it’s the slightly crooked, slightly out of focus or poorly collected shots taken from this type of angle that ends up looking the best because they come across as quite random. Of course you can add all these new outlook to your shots without shooting from the hip. Crouch down, get up high, frame your shots on an angle, zoom in close and then speedily zoom out to a wide angle, break the rules of composition etc and you will add a new outlook to your shots that can mean they look fresh and surprising.

10. Frame Images with Foreground Elements

A trick that I often use in candid shots is to intentionally include something in the foreground of the shot to make it look as though I’m hiding behind it. You might do this with by shooting over someone’s shoulder, by including a small of a tree branch or the frame of a doorway.

11. Take Posed Shots into Candid Territory

One of the favorite times to shoot candid shots is when other people are taking formal ones. This is because everyone in the shot is focused on the one element – but it’s not you. If the main photographer has posed the happy couple of the day or their bridal partly look for a different angle to them to take a shot of the same topic. Usually if you take a few steps to the side and shoot from almost a profile position you can get great shots. If you’re the only photographer and you’re taking formal shots a great method is to take your posed shot and then continue to shoot after everyone thinks you’ve finished. It’s generally the shots just after the posed one that are the best as people relax and look at each other.