Wedding shooting sugestions!

Lenses are simple

16-50mm 2.8
50-135mm 2.8
50mm 1.4

You then need a minimum of two bodies with a flash on each

4 x 8 gig cards
Batteries batteries batteries batteries batteries batteries batteries batteries all fully charge!

That should do you right. Good luck!

My biggest concern is that you dont know which lenses you need, which tells me you havent thought about what you are shooting or how you are going to shoot the wedding. A 17-50mm will get you by, but wont allow much creativity with bokeh and background blurring in shots.

I think it's maybe a little presumptious to make the statement you have above? Unless you know the photographer personally I think it's difficult to judge his skill or experience. For example, I think I have a fair amount of skill and experience with a camera, but not with shooting weddings and I might well need to ask questions about what lenses are suitable.

I was pointing out in my reply to the post that the OP had asked for advice about lenses, not for advice about his abilities! I realise that the posts will stray from time to time and I am as guilty as anyone for meandering off into other areas, but I just felt that this particular thread was becoming a bit overbearing for the OP.

Regards
David

I don't question the OP's ability to use his camera, but his ability to do a wedding. He stated himself he didn't know how it's done. I wouldn't entrust a wedding with a photographer who's never done it before. I would give a chance to a photographer who's done a few as a second photographer. At least, he would have seen a pro at work and gotten quite a few tips, plus some experience.

Jumping in without any kind of experience is a recipe for disaster. You need a lot of skill to do a wedding, not just camera skill. You need to know something about crowd control, getting old aunt Edna to pose with the nephew she hates with a passion because the bride wants them together, and so on...

Your first wedding solo is likely going to be the longest day in your life.

Don't. I did it once as a favour to a relative and, even knowing most of the people there (who went with who and so on) and being able to borrow folk to do some of the 'cat herding', it was still a nightmare. Do yourself a favour: buy a 70mm Limited to go with your 35mm and go take some landscape photos - much less stressful!

I got good news guys!!
1) the pro i was talking about will take me with him at some weddings in March
2) The same photographer will test me for a part time job independently of my "wedding trainig"!!

She said that a usefull range for the jobs she does is 18-[85-135]mm
So i am looking for the HSM 18-125mm for now wich is getting better reviews than the 18-135mm wr as far as i saw. After this, if nothing too cheap for what it is gets in my way, I'll save up for the DA* 16-85mm!!!