I admit that I haven't read all of these amazing comments so mine will undoubtedly replicate others but "THANK YOU" for sharing and allowing us wannabes a chance to see that even the masters have the same stresses and strains to accomplish the incredible and yet you do it with such confidence, command, and professionalism throughout. Just, "Thank You" .... you keep making these videos and I'll keep watching and learning!!!!!
The album at the end, gave me so many ideas. Love the details you capture and the perfect moments. You run the show like a boss (in a good way). The editing in the church, daaang! I understand why you get booked solid. Thank you for this.
First video of yours I've watched. Questions: Your first wedding was? How did you get involved in it? Was that something you always wanted to do? What equipment did you use? Thank you!
Hey! My first wedding was 21 years ago or so and I worked for my high school photography teacher who did weddings on the weekends. I had come back to his classroom to use the high school's matte-cutter because my collage one sucked and he ended up hiring me after seeing the work I was bringing in. :-) I learned on a 35mm Canon A-1 (that I still shoot with today for fun) and have loved photography since I was 15 :-)
Great video! One question 26:30 you start editing the photos, how you get the photos on your mobile phone ? Is this connected to your camera ? Thank you 🙏🏼 😊
I always love these pov wedding days and session videos. There always so much valuable information and I love seeing how everyone has a different take and way they plan and handle the day. There's always something to learn and incorporate and it's just so valuable
Found your channel. I wont be doing weddings however its always good learning what people use and tricks of the trade. I have a Pentax k-50 with some good old lenses the F smc series. Way underrated but does an excellent job.
Thanks Joy surely a lot has been learned today, i missed looking at your camera screen to see the camera settings during the creative shoots, when using the profoto in white umbrella
LOVE POV DAYS. Question on the first photo. What do you do when there is foot dirt or like these shoes...some type of stick on to help her through her day in the shoes?
Hi Vanessa!!! I’d love to know what your wearing to capture this video!!! Are you shouting with a go pro? & what strap are you using to hold the camera on you?
I finally have an answer for you about my camera strap! creative-teacher-9768.ck.page/1fb5eeedd8 this will be VERY limited so lmk here if you want to know when it's available!
WOW! Thank you, what an awesome wedding and the album photos at the end show how it all came together in a stylish way. I would like to see more of how you set up lights on the dance floor (I did watch your other video on that too). With all that white reflective surfaces around, it would be great to know how you set your exposure and also white balance. I think that's all! :)
all depends on the lighting in the room. If I'm working with my husband, I'll use just the video lights sometimes! Othertimes I'll need ocf in a dark room with dark ceilings and walls - and if I can I'll bounce flash off of lightly colored walls
how do you personally determine whether you're going to use flash or not during your shoots? I usually use my on camera flash for both the indoor detail shots as well as the initial bride photos. Maybe I just dont have the correct settings to not use flash.
Thank you very much for sharing such an amazing job. You made this look like a stress free day. Really inspiring poses. I would be curious to see the light set up used during the celebration, Thank you !!!
Hey, I wanted to see if yourself or anyone in the comment section had any advise. I’ve been honing my skills in using a old canon 5d mkii for a while but would like to offer my services as a second shooter for some local photographers. I’m ready to upgrade my kit but want something that’s going to last a while I’ve narrowed it down to either a 2nd hand Canon 5d mk Iv ($1250) or a canon r8 new ($1500). What would be your choice?. Thank you in advance
Thanks for sharing, I learned a so much from the video. It's so great learning from such a great photographer. This video was so hands on and wish more photographers would do this more often. I would of loved to see some of the actual wedding, even though it's the most intimate part of the couples day. Thanks you again for sharing.
Love these videos, as I’ve just booked my first wedding. Question: If you had to choose only one to bring, RF100 macro or EF 135 f/2? I know you’ve said you love both.
So cool the edit in the church hahhahaha it was super amazing. Can u tell me a few things like how did u manage to transfer all the photos in your phone ? What mobile r u using?? Things like that.....
Vanessa, or anyone that caught it, you load your images to LR via Wifi from your camera. What platform are you using to have people scroll the photos and share them on the iPad? Loved that tip and of course, can't seem to find it now that I'm looking for it!
Thank you for this! I have been assisting a wedding photographer here in India and I was very curious how the workflow outside is. He uses a very similar kit, an R5 with a 35mm and an 85mm prime lenses as his main ones. Great video!
OK, so @ 28:00 outdoors with the giant shoot through umbrella...couple Q's; we're you shooting HSS while using it, and / or was it just there as a kicker fill flash to compensate? I'm sure I'll add more Q's later...LOL
That's awesome. If it was possible to go back in time, I'd hire you to do my wedding. How did your energy level survive that extended family portrait segment of the wedding? Whew! In general, what's the worst moment/biggest mistake you ever experienced or made at a wedding? Conversely, the best moment and biggest success you ever had? Maybe success is not the right way to put it. Maybe serendipity is a better choice. You know, where everything just fell into place better than expected. Settings for the family portraits were? ISO? Hey, that was great! Totally fantastic!
Awesome content! It helps so much to see how your handle the big day. I'm a photographer attempting to make it a full time. Right now I have the r5 with the rf 70-200 2.8, the ef 50 1.2 and the ef 100 macro. I've been thinking about selling my ef gear and getting the rf 28-70 2.0 or rf 50 1.2. But having such a hard time making up my mind. I have a feeling the 28-70 would be wiser due to not having the ability to go wider then 50mm right now. What do you think would be the best course for someone a year into the bisnuess, I normally shoot events, portraits and animal portraits. Thanks so much for being such a resource for us struggling and new photographer :)
Where exactly? In photo insiders?? Not a ton there now but lots coming. Right now there’s an Instagram course that’s pretty thorough, and a couple of marketing and branding hot seats too
Absolutely fantastic Vanessa. Did they tell you to turn off your GoPro during the service? I wish photographers that charge 300.00 for a wedding watch this and see how much hard work really goes into shooting a wedding, then you put in hours of editing. Great work.
Thanks so much ☺️ No they didn’t tell me to turn it off - I just had recently gopro’ed a different church ceremony so figured I’d save battery on this one 😂
I'd recommend watching this, not just listen to the audio (especially if you're British)! Otherwise, like me, you'll be wondering who Mary is and why she's always in the way, why the men are wearing suspenders and why their pants are too high 🤔😂
One second photographer, and one assistant for an average 200 person wedding, and then sometimes I have a third photographer that is in training or is needed for just a couple reasons or larger wedding
Vanessa, don’t you miss the wider apertures? I know that you use a second, maybe the second got wider aperture lenses, and you are covered, but if you were alone, you never felt the need for a wider aperture lens?
@@VanessaJoy thanks for your prompt reply. You are truly gifted. Amazing style and proficiency. Just taking this opportunity and not wanting to take more of your time, why do you use the R3? I am going to get the R3 for weddings and amongst the many reasons, one of the main one is silent shooting.
It's really nice, lots of things to learn from here. I wish I would have worked with you as 2nd/3rd shooter!!! I wish!!!!!!! Love your work always. Take love
Wish I could back to that age and take up photography. Little old now. Not far from taking up permanent residence - with a camera of course - on boot hill. Love photography. Just do some news pics and cutlines for a small paper. No weddings though. People would look at me and laugh. Who's that old dude with a camera? You know, the one over there who fell down and landed face first in the grass. Thanks for the great videos and your answer! Can I be young again? Please!
Weddings in my country are so different!! Nice to see the video but I could never, for example, be sitting during the ceremony editing pictures. In here we take pictures of every guest and not only bride maids and their companions. Its a different world
I can sit during communion bc after I photograph one or two people receiving, there’s nothing happening for a few minutes that my second photographer is t capturing ☺️
@@VanessaJoy I wish I could say that also. Christian ceremonies on a gothic church are long, boring and with so much protocol. Good thing is we have lots of castles and historic places in every city witch help a lot on photos and video (specially on the SDE) Loved to see your workflow on an actual wedding day. ;)
Sometimes you just got to get the shot within a certain time frame. If you lose yourself in being creative you’ll lose the light or lose the clients interest. They have a timeline they have to stick to. You are constantly at the mercy of other things like if the makeup artist sucks all your time doing makeup so you have to wait forever just to have your time with the bride.
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Such a huge contrast to the way we shoot in the UK, the amount of time you're spending on the group shots compared to the way we shoot here is huge!
I admit that I haven't read all of these amazing comments so mine will undoubtedly replicate others but "THANK YOU" for sharing and allowing us wannabes a chance to see that even the masters have the same stresses and strains to accomplish the incredible and yet you do it with such confidence, command, and professionalism throughout. Just, "Thank You" .... you keep making these videos and I'll keep watching and learning!!!!!
The album at the end, gave me so many ideas. Love the details you capture and the perfect moments. You run the show like a boss (in a good way). The editing in the church, daaang! I understand why you get booked solid. Thank you for this.
Yes! Love these. Super helpful for those of us just getting in to the industry. Off to buy some popcorn to watch the whole thing.
So happy it helps!!
First video of yours I've watched. Questions: Your first wedding was? How did you get involved in it? Was that something you always wanted to do? What equipment did you use?
Thank you!
Hey! My first wedding was 21 years ago or so and I worked for my high school photography teacher who did weddings on the weekends. I had come back to his classroom to use the high school's matte-cutter because my collage one sucked and he ended up hiring me after seeing the work I was bringing in. :-) I learned on a 35mm Canon A-1 (that I still shoot with today for fun) and have loved photography since I was 15 :-)
Great video!
One question 26:30 you start editing the photos, how you get the photos on your mobile phone ? Is this connected to your camera ?
Thank you 🙏🏼 😊
Yes! Through the Canon connect app ☺️
I always love these pov wedding days and session videos. There always so much valuable information and I love seeing how everyone has a different take and way they plan and handle the day. There's always something to learn and incorporate and it's just so valuable
Glad you like them! do share around if you think others will too :-)
as much as i like photographing weddings it was relaxing watching you have fun good job Vanessa
Finally got to sit and watch this...Loved it! Awesome work.
1:34:00 how many flash lights did you use? And with 50mm rf f1.2 ? 🥰
Two 🙏
Vanessa, do you prefer the R5 or R3 for weddings?
I use both. R5 all day and then the R3 at the reception for better lower light performance and smaller files
Found your channel. I wont be doing weddings however its always good learning what people use and tricks of the trade. I have a Pentax k-50 with some good old lenses the F smc series. Way underrated but does an excellent job.
Hope it's helpful!
@@VanessaJoy 100% keep up the good work.
Love your videos. Always learn something.
Always love these videos, great work again!
I always wanted to do weddings as a second shooter. This looks like fun. Thanks for posting.
Lots of running around. Best if you are in shape
Thanks Joy surely a lot has been learned today, i missed looking at your camera screen to see the camera settings during the creative shoots, when using the profoto in white umbrella
These are beautiful! Thanks for sharing
You know. I never even considered using a shoot through umbrella for bridals. But after seeing your results I might have to add that to my repertoire!
Go for it! Super soft light
You did an awesome job with everything but would like to know when your changing lens and you settings.
Hey Vanessa cool video, where did you get your magnet clip board wedding shot sheet holder.
😂 it was a gift. It’s quite fun!
LOVE POV DAYS. Question on the first photo. What do you do when there is foot dirt or like these shoes...some type of stick on to help her through her day in the shoes?
I try to take it out but if not I’ll just photoshop the one she uses in the album
Hi Vanessa!!! I’d love to know what your wearing to capture this video!!! Are you shouting with a go pro? & what strap are you using to hold the camera on you?
Gopro chest strap ☺️
I finally have an answer for you about my camera strap! creative-teacher-9768.ck.page/1fb5eeedd8 this will be VERY limited so lmk here if you want to know when it's available!
I love these full-day videos.
So happy to hear it! Do share ☺️
WOW! Thank you, what an awesome wedding and the album photos at the end show how it all came together in a stylish way. I would like to see more of how you set up lights on the dance floor (I did watch your other video on that too). With all that white reflective surfaces around, it would be great to know how you set your exposure and also white balance. I think that's all! :)
I see you have a check off list is that available on your website 😊
bit.ly/familyjoylist
Very very informative. Thank you so much for this video!
You are so welcome!
Wow, that was wonderful! I feel like I was in attendance 🤔🤭🫣🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
What is your set up with the first dances? How many lights? Gels? Lens? Thanks so much for this video!
all depends on the lighting in the room. If I'm working with my husband, I'll use just the video lights sometimes! Othertimes I'll need ocf in a dark room with dark ceilings and walls - and if I can I'll bounce flash off of lightly colored walls
Gracias
What a BEAUTIFUL WORK! I enjoyed this video a lot! Thank you for sharing! Love your style!
Thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing this Vanessa! Such a fun wedding! The photos turned out fantastic!
Thanks so much! Please share 🙏 ☺️
This is gold. More like it, please! ❣
Got another one for you in Photo Insiders since you just signed up 😜
@@VanessaJoy 😍
how do you personally determine whether you're going to use flash or not during your shoots? I usually use my on camera flash for both the indoor detail shots as well as the initial bride photos. Maybe I just dont have the correct settings to not use flash.
If I like that natural light I use that. If I don’t think it’s flattering, I create the light ☺️
@@VanessaJoy awesome! thanks for the quick response! So just depends on presence and situation. :)
Would love to know about the sparklies trick.
What product is this from Amazon?
which one??
I enjoyed this so much, so much information. Beautiful photos, great posing.
Thanks so much! Please share 🙏 ☺️
Thank you very much for sharing such an amazing job. You made this look like a stress free day. Really inspiring poses. I would be curious to see the light set up used during the celebration, Thank you !!!
Thanks so much! Please share 🙏 ☺️
Hey, I wanted to see if yourself or anyone in the comment section had any advise. I’ve been honing my skills in using a old canon 5d mkii for a while but would like to offer my services as a second shooter for some local photographers. I’m ready to upgrade my kit but want something that’s going to last a while I’ve narrowed it down to either a 2nd hand Canon 5d mk Iv ($1250) or a canon r8 new ($1500). What would be your choice?. Thank you in advance
A new R8 with the $99 lens adaptor ☺️
Thanks for sharing, I learned a so much from the video. It's so great learning from such a great photographer. This video was so hands on and wish more photographers would do this more often. I would of loved to see some of the actual wedding, even though it's the most intimate part of the couples day. Thanks you again for sharing.
This was amazing thank you so much!
Love these videos, as I’ve just booked my first wedding. Question: If you had to choose only one to bring, RF100 macro or EF 135 f/2? I know you’ve said you love both.
Thanks so much! Please share 🙏 ☺️ and I’d bring the 135
Just wondering, Vanessa..Have you had issues with moire in clothes using your Canon?
Not anymore than normal moire effect happens
I got some issues with it on the Sony. Manageable but annoying.
So cool the edit in the church hahhahaha it was super amazing.
Can u tell me a few things like how did u manage to transfer all the photos in your phone ? What mobile r u using?? Things like that.....
Canon connect app ☺️ - I actually have a whole video coming up very soon on how I do the same day edits!
@@VanessaJoy looking forward for the video. Thank you very much 😊 🙏
Vanessa, or anyone that caught it, you load your images to LR via Wifi from your camera. What platform are you using to have people scroll the photos and share them on the iPad? Loved that tip and of course, can't seem to find it now that I'm looking for it!
It’s just photos app on the iPad ☺️ I airdrop them
@@VanessaJoy Thank you. Do they share them to their social media or just email them to themselves to share?
Thank you for this! I have been assisting a wedding photographer here in India and I was very curious how the workflow outside is. He uses a very similar kit, an R5 with a 35mm and an 85mm prime lenses as his main ones. Great video!
So happy it helps you!
OK, so @ 28:00 outdoors with the giant shoot through umbrella...couple Q's; we're you shooting HSS while using it, and / or was it just there as a kicker fill flash to compensate? I'm sure I'll add more Q's later...LOL
No kicker flash, and prob not HSS (I don’t have the settings in front of me) bc I don’t think it would’ve been bright enough
That's awesome. If it was possible to go back in time, I'd hire you to do my wedding. How did your energy level survive that extended family portrait segment of the wedding? Whew! In general, what's the worst moment/biggest mistake you ever experienced or made at a wedding? Conversely, the best moment and biggest success you ever had? Maybe success is not the right way to put it. Maybe serendipity is a better choice. You know, where everything just fell into place better than expected. Settings for the family portraits were? ISO? Hey, that was great! Totally fantastic!
Like your vid‘s. Again very invaluable Information for free! Thanks!!!!
Glad it was helpful! Please share :-)
So calm and collect 😅😂 I’m always running around like a chicken with its head cut off on wedding day. I need to take notes from you. Lol.
Awesome content! It helps so much to see how your handle the big day. I'm a photographer attempting to make it a full time. Right now I have the r5 with the rf 70-200 2.8, the ef 50 1.2 and the ef 100 macro. I've been thinking about selling my ef gear and getting the rf 28-70 2.0 or rf 50 1.2. But having such a hard time making up my mind. I have a feeling the 28-70 would be wiser due to not having the ability to go wider then 50mm right now. What do you think would be the best course for someone a year into the bisnuess, I normally shoot events, portraits and animal portraits. Thanks so much for being such a resource for us struggling and new photographer :)
How much marketing side of stuff is being taught?
Where exactly? In photo insiders?? Not a ton there now but lots coming. Right now there’s an Instagram course that’s pretty thorough, and a couple of marketing and branding hot seats too
Love this videos. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching. ☺️ please share!
those 135 photos are mind blowing.
Aw thanks ☺️
Absolutely fantastic Vanessa. Did they tell you to turn off your GoPro during the service? I wish photographers that charge 300.00 for a wedding watch this and see how much hard work really goes into shooting a wedding, then you put in hours of editing. Great work.
I haven’t even watched the video yet and I 100% agree with your statement!! ❤
Thanks so much ☺️
No they didn’t tell me to turn it off - I just had recently gopro’ed a different church ceremony so figured I’d save battery on this one 😂
I'd recommend watching this, not just listen to the audio (especially if you're British)! Otherwise, like me, you'll be wondering who Mary is and why she's always in the way, why the men are wearing suspenders and why their pants are too high 🤔😂
Lol wait. Who’s Mary?
@@VanessaJoy I thought she someone's Mum, standing in the background...not a statue!
Virgin Mary 😊
amazing
Thanks so much! Please share 🙏 ☺️
@@VanessaJoy why do you use partial or spot metering vs evaluative ?
How many assistants do you have for a wedding?
One second photographer, and one assistant for an average 200 person wedding, and then sometimes I have a third photographer that is in training or is needed for just a couple reasons or larger wedding
I'm dying to know if you took the roof out with that tree right in front of it. If so.. mad skills. This video is great! Thank you!
Haha I wanted to that’s for sure
Cool video
How R5 for still photography??
My ultimate fav camera for still photography ☺️
Tank u
Great video's Vanessa from Ash in the UK
Thanks so much! Please share 🙏 ☺️
Vanessa, don’t you miss the wider apertures? I know that you use a second, maybe the second got wider aperture lenses, and you are covered, but if you were alone, you never felt the need for a wider aperture lens?
Wider than f2? No. I don’t miss it ☺️ every once in a while I’ll use the 85 at f1.2 but I’ve never been a truly wide open shooter in general
@@VanessaJoy thanks for your prompt reply. You are truly gifted. Amazing style and proficiency.
Just taking this opportunity and not wanting to take more of your time, why do you use the R3?
I am going to get the R3 for weddings and amongst the many reasons, one of the main one is silent shooting.
If someone interesting on having 5 original canon batteries LP-E6NH (few months use) Some one local in Miami?
I hear there’s a shortage. Lol you’re renting yours? Genious.
@@VanessaJoy Just change all my gear to sony. have no use... but shipping this will be a bit difficult. I probably use 6 times each...
@@VanessaJoy Giving all for free!
I hope those are brand new shoes on that veil, lol. Thanks for the video.
Obviously 😉
51:42 in and I’m just wondering if she ever got the picture with just her stepfather that she asked for 😢
Haha yes she definitely did. Many of them
It's really nice, lots of things to learn from here. I wish I would have worked with you as 2nd/3rd shooter!!! I wish!!!!!!! Love your work always. Take love
Thanks for watching. ☺️ please share!
@@VanessaJoy Done 😊
Wish I could back to that age and take up photography. Little old now. Not far from taking up permanent residence - with a camera of course - on boot hill. Love photography. Just do some news pics and cutlines for a small paper. No weddings though. People would look at me and laugh. Who's that old dude with a camera? You know, the one over there who fell down and landed face first in the grass. Thanks for the great videos and your answer! Can I be young again? Please!
@Vanessa - What did you learn from watching this video?
I didn’t watch the video ☺️
Weddings in my country are so different!! Nice to see the video but I could never, for example, be sitting during the ceremony editing pictures. In here we take pictures of every guest and not only bride maids and their companions. Its a different world
I can sit during communion bc after I photograph one or two people receiving, there’s nothing happening for a few minutes that my second photographer is t capturing ☺️
@@VanessaJoy I have a very interesting question: did you ever have a sd chip fail during a shoot?
@@VanessaJoy I wish I could say that also. Christian ceremonies on a gothic church are long, boring and with so much protocol. Good thing is we have lots of castles and historic places in every city witch help a lot on photos and video (specially on the SDE)
Loved to see your workflow on an actual wedding day. ;)
Not gonna lie, I was expecting alot more creativity given your years of experience.
Sometimes you just got to get the shot within a certain time frame. If you lose yourself in being creative you’ll lose the light or lose the clients interest. They have a timeline they have to stick to. You are constantly at the mercy of other things like if the makeup artist sucks all your time doing makeup so you have to wait forever just to have your time with the bride.
I anyways wanted to be a gopro😄😐
I see a Hebrew tattoo can I ask what it says and are you Jewish?
Technically I have a bit of Jewish heritage yes, and it’s Nehemiah 8:10 “the joy of the Lord is your strength”
@@VanessaJoy cool love it.
@@VanessaJoy Related with Fro knows photo? 😃Dont think so, you are too pretty for that lol
@@billx4266 This might change your mind :-) ruclips.net/video/GitPvMHNbsw/видео.html
Most expensive gear ever lol.
Where are you that everyone is still wearing masks… yeesh… really kills the whole vibe.
Never mind… New York… that explains evvvvverything 😂😂