Pre-Event Equipment Checks

OK, I know the title of this post doesn't sound very interesting, but our pre-event equipment check is a very important part of your wedding photography package.  We go step-by-step through every menu of each camera and flash a few days before your event and check functionality of all flashes on each camera to ensure proper operation.  Why do we do this?  Because we want everything to run as smoothly as possible on your wedding day and not miss a single photo opportunity because of an incorrect setting or equipment malfunction.

If you've never been through the menus of a modern professional digital camera, realize that there are 50+ menu items, many with sub-menus.  The professional flash units we use have another 10 menu items each.  All said, we check 250+ menu settings in the equipment that will be used for your wedding.

If you're wondering how menu items can change between photo shoots, it can happen for a number of reasons: equipment resets to default settings (we use customized settings), we experiment with our cameras and flashes between events trying out different photography techniques and may inadvertently leave settings in experimental mode, we change settings during events as sunlight changes so our initial settings correspond to the time of day your event begins, and there are many other scenarios.

In addition to our equipment checks, I read the owner's manual for each piece of equipment at least twice per year.  When you read a 150 page technical manual cover to cover, you either learn something new or remember something you had forgotten regardless of the number of times you've read it before.  We take lots of pride in knowing our equipment inside and out.

Why am I telling you this?  Our goal is for you to have a stress-free wedding day. Knowing that your photographers understand their equipment inside and out and have checked all settings, buttons, and dials before your wedding day will hopefully go a long way towards you having less stress.