Mom's Little Corner: Candid Wedding Photography: A Perfect Way to Capture Real Moments

Nowadays, people are much excited for their photos captured in candid shots. They said, it is more real, creative, fun and captured the real moments of the event. In wedding photography, couple's often prefer candid even to formal groups. But how would the professional photographers will capture this in a perfect and fast way of shooting their own cameras?

The term "candid" is often misunderstood. True candids, which are taken without the knowledge of those being featured, can be successful at weddings, but it is difficult to always achieve a decent picture of everyone in this style when so many people are together. The way around this is to arrange people first and then shoot candidly as they chat together. This will take a lot of the formality out of picture, and it will give people something to do rather than looking at the camera.

TIPS: Candid pictures are much more easily achieved by using a 35mm camera and zoom lens so that you can stand a long way from your subjects and take pictures which they will not probably noticing you are taking.

To take candid pictures you have to have a good eye for detail and good reactions to shoot at the right moment. There are two distinct approaches to candids. One is to hide and shoot from a distance and the other is the in-your-face approach. If you decide the distant method is more your style you'll need a camera with a long lens (telephoto). All lenses are measured by their focal length. If you have a 35mm SLR or compact camera and use a lens with a focal length longer than 50mm its classed as a telephoto.

Below are a number of tips to help photographers improve their ‘candid’ photography. Please note that these tips are not about taking sneaky, voyeuristic or true paparazzi shots (ie photographing people without their permission) but rather about how to add a more candid feel to the shots you take of people that you know.

Here's The 11 Tips for Better Candid Photography