Chapter 9. Filming a Wedding Day
Making Fusion is different from simply making still images. How you approach Fusion will depend on your usual approach to a wedding day. Many wedding photographers prefer to stand back and let a wedding day unfold, as it will. Others like to storyboard parts of the day, but watch the rest just happen around them. Whatever your approach to weddings, you can make Fusion fit, with a bit of planning and preparation.
When and Where to Film
Most modern wedding photographers have a dusty, unused tripod sitting in the trunk of their car, or in the back of their gear closet. Gear isn't as heavy or as cumbersome as it was as few as 15 years ago. And we all secretly scoff at the photographers we see carefully carrying their tripods from place to place. Our cameras are fast – high ISO, great glass – and we can shoot entire weddings without stabilizers like tripods.
Capturing video, though, means taking a closer look at stabilizers and you may even be tempted to invest in different stabilizers, like those listed in Chapter 7. Hand holding your camera is an option, but be prepared for more work in post production (even if you want that shaky look that hand holding gives you.)
Let's assume, for this section, that you are using a camera like the 5D MKII (or Nikon D3S). ...
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