Improving your wedding photography skills

It takes a combination of photographic skills to be a good wedding photographer. You must be able to master portraits, candid photography, macro photography, landscape photography, editorial photography to name just a few.

I find that entering photographic competitions had help me enhance my skill set in all aspects of photography. Some of the competitions I enter have set themes and some are open, I tend to do better in set theme competitions but usually come high up in the rankings for the open comps which run as a league. I managed a 15^th and 3^rd in the two opens last year and 9^th and 4^th this year.

Each year there is a print and projected image of the year competition, qualification is by receiving a 3^rd 2^nd or 1^st place in any of the comps through the year. Last year I won the projected image comp with my keyboard player image.

This year I have 10 entries so I am hoping for good things but whatever the outcome of I have learnt new skills this year that I can use to enhance my wedding photography.