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              [Contest Submission] Fantastic Wedding Photography Tips For All Shooters

              Warning! You now have 3 days to submit your behind the scenes video for our big 2011 contest.

              I’ve been a professional wedding photographer for 7 years now and I’ve seen tons of absurd wedding advice online. Anytime I see a wedding related video submission I think “oh boy, here we go again.” I just stumbled upon a video from 375 Photography on our forum that broke the mold. Not only is this video good, it may be one of the best wedding related videos I’ve seen online. It’s informative, entertaining, and the images speak for themselves. No matter how long you have been shooting weddings, you will learn something from Justin and his team.



              December 28, 2011
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              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1491861002 Alex Leon

                W”efen”ow

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1491861002 Alex Leon

                W”efen”ow

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1491861002 Alex Leon

                W”efen”ow

              • http://twitter.com/martinbeebee Martin Beebee

                Great video — much better than the standard wedding photography videos that just have a camera follow around for a few BTS clips put to music. Actually informative — what a concept!

              • http://www.facebook.com/miguelcunha.inbox Miguel Cunha

                Amazing team work creativity and hard work this things come together with this team :) congrats from portugal 

              • Anonymous

                A Freaking Mazing!  THAT is a wedding tips video!

              • http://www.digitalqmedia.com Chuck Navarro

                Now that is a great tips video.

              • http://www.facebook.com/quinn.neely Quinn Neely

                That was really informative. I loved it. Thanks!

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=754554855 Edd Carlile

                Superb team of photographers and how generous of them to put this out there.
                Bravo Sirs,bravo!!!!

              • http://twitter.com/StefanC Stefan Choquette

                That was really well done! Good job guys, that was the most entertaining yet very informative video I’ve seen yet and the perfect length.

              • jimmi tofthoj

                Can anybody give me an ellaborate explanation of “the 85 trick” :) ? That was awesome !!

              • http://twitter.com/davidmam David Martin

                For the 85 trick you need a camera that can expose properly without a lens on the mount. You also need to have a lens where the aperture can be set manually so an old manual lens will work fine. Almost any dSLR should work in manual.
                Read up on Large Format photography tilts and shifts – this is what you are recreating with a dSLR. I’ve never done it with digital (have done LF) but am off to try this out right now..

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Grayson-Hary/100002134700823 Grayson Hary

                Also known as “freelensing”

              • http://twitter.com/davidmam David Martin

                Sorry, should have added some technical stuff. The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheimpflug_principle Scheimpflug principle states that the film/sensor plane, the lens plane and the plane of focus meet at a common axis. In a normal dSLR these are parallel so you get a plane of focus parallel to the sensor plane. If you tilt and shift the lens then you alter the plane that is in focus. You can use this to either dramatically increase the depth of field (as nature photogs may do to get the foreground and background in focus) by a little forward tilt of the lens, or in this case to get the dramatically defocussed shot with a narrow plane of focus across the ring a small upward tilt does the trick. It works side to side as well.

              • http://twitter.com/davidmam David Martin

                Sorry, should have added some technical stuff. The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheimpflug_principle Scheimpflug principle states that the film/sensor plane, the lens plane and the plane of focus meet at a common axis. In a normal dSLR these are parallel so you get a plane of focus parallel to the sensor plane. If you tilt and shift the lens then you alter the plane that is in focus. You can use this to either dramatically increase the depth of field (as nature photogs may do to get the foreground and background in focus) by a little forward tilt of the lens, or in this case to get the dramatically defocussed shot with a narrow plane of focus across the ring a small upward tilt does the trick. It works side to side as well.

              • http://twitter.com/ojasray Ojas Ray

                do you take all your images on the 85mm and the 70-200? 

              • http://twitter.com/ojasray Ojas Ray

                do you take all your images on the 85mm and the 70-200? 

              • Tom Coles

                Thanks for the vid.  Great info, ….. but, …..dudes ….kill the matchey white shirt, black tie attire ….. you look like Mormon missionaries :)

              • Tom Coles

                Thanks for the vid.  Great info, ….. but, …..dudes ….kill the matchey white shirt, black tie attire ….. you look like Mormon missionaries :)

              • Anonymous

                Anyone else then me that noticed that the group shot dindt really macth the others? Editing was diffrent (or non excisting?) and quite boring..

                Except that, excelent video

              • http://twitter.com/TumbleweedPhoto Steve Fairfield

                (Enter Jeff Foxworthy) “If you shoot weddins…” JK
                Really cool stuff. I knew about tilt/shift techniques, but never knew about freelensing. Might need to try that.

              • http://www.facebook.com/mktgwiz George Marsh

                I don’t shoot weddings, however Justin made the video up beat, informative, and fun… loved it!

              • S B

                That was one of the absolute single best videos I have ever seen on your site! Thank you so much to the 375 Team & FStoppers for sharing! 

              • Rusty Bryant

                The only thing that would have made it better would be if he was wearing a John Deer Tractor hat.  I love that a country boy is rocking the photog biz like this.  Love the video.

              • Oskars Lablaiks

                Really good video, great tips. BUT the music is terrible :s

              • Oskars Lablaiks

                Really good video, great tips. BUT the music is terrible :s

              • http://www.facebook.com/jeremaih.vaughan J Vaughan Photographyy

                ill give it to them this s something i needed 

                JVAUGAHN Photography

              • http://twitter.com/Seshan Seshan

                It’s better then what every those three songs are called that get used in almost every single wedding video. Plus this one probably isn’t copyrighted. Most people illegally use songs in their videos.

              • Oskars Lablaiks

                Thats also true. :)

              • http://laura-eliza.com Laura Eliza

                I think this is the best wedding video I have ever seen… where was it a couple months ago when I shot my first wedding? ;)

              • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OLCQDCCXV2FL7YKOVKOYOZAELY BDub

                One of the best wedding photography videos I’ve seen. He gave unique tips that are regurgitated from every other photography video 

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Wojtczak/100001727442058 Justin Wojtczak

                I also use 16-35 2.8/24-70 2.8/50 mm Macro

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Wojtczak/100001727442058 Justin Wojtczak

                Tom-What a great comment!  We have gotten that from time and time and people always get a laugh.  

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Wojtczak/100001727442058 Justin Wojtczak

                For us, when it comes time for the formals, there is no need to do any crazy editing because they are formals.  That is just with my experience.  What do you do? 

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Wojtczak/100001727442058 Justin Wojtczak

                Rusty-Killer comment!  

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Wojtczak/100001727442058 Justin Wojtczak

                Seshan-yeah it was important to find a song that was legal to use for the contest. 

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Wojtczak/100001727442058 Justin Wojtczak

                For all that left a comment, thanks for your input!  If you have any further questions or need help with ANYTHING, you can visit my site http://www.375photography.com and shoot me an email.  I would love to hear from you. 

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=703570895 Scott Bostjancic

                Thanks for sharing the video! It is inspirational!

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=506432237 Corey Melton

                this dude has his ish together. id book him!

              • http://www.facebook.com/Rhemafaith Rhéma Sturgeon

                Thanks so much Justin!! This video was awesome!

              • http://www.facebook.com/pussehs Scott Pussehl

                When I saw the first scene in this video with Mr. Wojtczak, I said,” what information will these hicks be able to give me”. But man was I proven wrong and I am very sorry that I even thought that, this is prob one of the best videos I have seen on how to shoot anything, Super up beat, really good information. I don’t even shoot weddings. Keep up the amazing work guys, I love the clip board tip

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