Poo d'état

Not a wedding photographer either but i've assisted on enough of them to know that i didn't want to do it. :D Yep, batteries and memory cards, lots of spares. Try to fight the temptation to even review your pictures on the LCD screen on the back of your camera - that'll mean taking your eyes off the action, and temptation to edit in-camera. Have a quick look to check your exposure/clippings at the start, but leave it at that. (When i was assisting majority of wedding photographers were still shooting film, albeit with fussy magazines to reload - a blessing, really, there are enough distractions as it is.) Get the full schedule (in as much detail as possible) written down and familiarise yourself with it. On the day, try to think 5 mins, 15 mins and 30 mins ahead of time, know where your subject(s) will be, where your light is coming from, and where you need to be in relation to that. Depending on how prepared you want to be, check out the venue in advance and see what the light is like at the proposed time of the wedding. Don't forget your speedlight (if you have one; if not, beg/borrow/steal). Get as close to the action as you possibly could. To quote the old Robert Capa saying, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." (Applies to most documentary photography). Don't forget the details - decorations, place cards, the happy couple's hands clasped together, family and friends and their emotions, etc. Some photographers insist on the boy-girl-boy-girl arrangement in posed shots, you can give it a try. Don't lose the memory cards! Lastly, try to enjoy the experience as much as nerves will allow. Good luck. Eta: Apols if any of these are stating the obvious...

Absolutely precious Mandy, love the 'chubby' belly :D , i'm insanely jealous! My gosh i've forgotten how little they are when they're babies!

Awesome pics Rooof, great stuff!

Lovely set Clicking Mad, especially love the shot of him resting, with his shaved belly. Hugs to both you and Texas.

That first shot is awesome. What an adorable little man!

Lol you and me both! I got paid out big time at work that i kept on sleeping. My whole team went out to take snaps and a few of them made it to world wide news sites. D'oh! Rocco1, i envy the space/empty room you have for studio space!

You won't believe it but i don't have any of me and my two Poos. I'm going to get a remote shutter release and hopefully solve that problem. (Nor am i game enough to resurrect the 'post a photo of yourself' thread so you might just have to wait till i manage a self portrait :p )

Yup yup, get it looked at anyway, it could be a CPU glitch or something.

Oh crap. How long have you had the camera for? Is it still under warranty?

That is SUCH an adorable shot. And you're both very purdy, Bov. (Suddenly your name makes so much sense! )

A card reader is a little thingo that you plug your memory card into instead of plugging your camera to your computer, not entirely necessary but does come in handy. Technically speaking you shouldn't need any program to import photos, you should be able to drag your picture files from your camera (i'm not sure if there's an icon on your desktop for the camera when it's plugged in?) directly across to wherever you want to save them on your computer. Do the file names read JPG at the end or something else (not the two that have slipped through)?

Hmm. Dis, i haven't used iPhoto in a long while so i won't be of much help. Do all the listed file names end with JPG? Also i'm guessing you haven't changed computer settings nor iPhoto settings since your last import? Do you or your brother have a card reader you can try instead? I don't think you've lost the photos, sounds like the equipment's just not talking to each other, i think.

I do all of the above in bold, i don't have any issue with what people choose to do with their work. As far as i can tell, no one's throwing hissy fits about other people's choice not to edit - the issue (well, mine anyway), i'll repeat again, is with the assumption that non-editors have that editors do so because they can't 'get it right in camera'. I must've missed something - who's deleted posts and left the forum?

Dunno, still reads like a comparison of two distinct methods to me, which, like Kja has already said, 'getting it right in camera' has nothing to do with post prod. And i'm still shooting negs with my recent discovery of the joys of rangefinders. Raz i'm not sure which 'both' you are/he is referring to - film and digital, RAW and Jpeg or editing and no editing?

Raz, the medium is the same - photography. Some people stop at the camera, some choose to make great SOOC photos frickin' awesome in post production. As for 'defensiveness', i thought it was pretty well explained, it's all there if you can be bothered to go back and read it. It pretty much came about when Rubiton took it upon herself to assume that people who choose to edit are doing so because they're not 'getting it right' in the camera and the insinuation that editing = a less competent photographer (my reading).