5 Ceremony Shots EVERY Wedding Photographer Needs

If you are a wedding photographer you know that photographing the ceremony can sometimes feel difficult to find creativity. In today's episode I'm sharing 5 go to shots every wedding photographer needs to focus on during every ceremony to produce a great album or blog post spread and capture the day as best as possible!

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[julianlangdon]

Superb and extremely helpful: thank you everso

[mattpierceblog]

I use these often. We've been doing weddings for about 5 years now and you'd be shocked at how these look. Good, good, advice.

[lindabonskowski]

Wish you could hold my hand during the ceremony!! LOL

[arthur_ohumukini]

Thank you KJ! I have an impromptu 2h wedding (usually shoot 8-10h!) to shoot tomorrow and am happy to have these go-to ideas since I do not have time on my side hahaha

[deandrajarboe]

Thanks for sharing, Katelyn! Love your teaching style. So helpful.

[marco_brugnoli]

This is the EXACT video I needed! I just finished a wedding last weekend and felt like my ceremony shots felt average (feeling & emotion-wise). Taking these tips to my next one this weekend! Thank you!

[felicityannchen]

Love this Katelyn! I love how you have formulas of what you want to capture…it works well with how my brain works haha! Thanks for sharing!!

[kendramanuel]

Girl! I had a wedding on Saturday. It was beautifully cloudy. Perfect really. JUST as I was trying to grab the grooms reaction (best of my career no joke!) and BOTH cameras started missing due to the stupid cloud moving and an outrageous amount of haze turned the 1 that I DID get very VERY hazy!! But that GOD for Lightroom CC AND THE DEHAZE and some other tricks! I literally lost sleep over that missed shot!!! Lightroom saved it 😂

[lindastarr]

Thank you this tge best i have learn. I am thank ful for this this a keepsake video.

[ktnvls]

My favorite shot is when the groom cries when he his bride walks! I wish I could post some photos Where I've caught that! The bride LOVES it!

[marckydasaint]

Yay. I'm the 500th Like to a video: 5 Go To Shots.

[zekromjr]

A review of the canon 24-105 2.8 and 10-20?

[anncalypso]

I wonder if I could go behind the altar and take some shots? Or is that going to be too much of a distraction ?

[Kiarate]

What f stop do you like to shoot for ceremonies?

[heikkisuontausta]

No ring shot or kissing shot in top 5?

[jasonklein]

Katelyn, I love your videos and I learn a ton from them...but they're very hetero-normative. Everything is centered around straight weddings. I'd love to see your process for approaching a queer wedding. For example, my husband and I walked down the aisle together.