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What would a wedding be without photographs; just how much would the bride and groom remember a few years later; the beauty of digital wedding photography is the speed at which you can see and distribute the images, around the world if required. DVD’s have made the wedding day come alive but still images always win the day because they capture a ‘moment in time’.

This isn’t easy; creating that perfect shot if you are taking photographs without help as there is only so much you can do on your own without help. Ensuring photos taken with your digital camera (preferably a Canon ixus 75 Digital Camera) are something special for your friend’s or relation on their big day might be a little easier once you have read the tips in this article.

Most importantly try to ensure you don’t have poor background scenery and that there aren’t too many people in the shot. Don’t worry too much if you can’t get a full body shot of the couple as you can get around this problem by taking a portrait shot of them which will solve the problem.

Try to get guests that have spectacles on to either remove them or hold their head at an angle so that there isn’t a reflection obscuring their eyes. To avoid people in the shot coming out dark when the sunlight is behind them, unless you know what you are doing, move them so the sun is behind you.

Natural, wedding photos always look better than staged ones but difficult to capture when you are too close so a powerful zoom lens is a great advantage. You should be alert at all times when shooting digital wedding photography since you can seldom ask people to keep posing for you and the day is also about spontaneity.

Your Canon ixus 75 Digital Camera should be equipped with enough memory to ensure that no great moment is missed, in other words, make sure have an extra memory card especially if you want to preserve as many moments as possible. Professional digital slr cameras start at 6 mega pixels and very few compacts are now below that so your card will need to be a minimum of one gigabyte to be on the safe side.

Always remember that the higher the resolution used, the larger the size of prints that can be made so always keep a secure copy of your work so you can re-use them in the future. Storing the wedding images on a computer or CD will mean that you can print them off whenever you want but a presentation CD can be played back on a TV.

Digital wedding photography has become firmly established over the last few years and how successful you are will depend on how much you enjoy the challenge.

By: Sean Redfearn