I shot my first wedding yesterday. It really is a tremendous amount of work.
I've known Anthony and Niesha for years, and I tried to talk them into going with a photographer who routinely does weddings - my recurring fear was that my equipment would fail; I warned ominously that apart from spare batteries I had no backup kit, and so if something died that was that. But they are fans of my stuff and really wanted me to do it, and so I did, and it was nail-biting fun. I was so stressed that I couldn't get to sleep once it was all over.
As it happened, my second camera battery did fail. Good thing it happened just as dinner was served, and I had brought my charger.
Posted to the Bulletin Board by Michelle on October 15 2008. Items on the Utata Bulletin Board are originally posted on the Utata group on flickr or are submitted directly by Utata members.