First Communion Photography

Ruby and I were hired to make photographs and video to a girl who was doing her first communion in a local church. Here are some pics that were made by me. It's the first time I do something like this, so I'm not a pro communion photographer.

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It was chaos, a lot of people in the middle of the room blocking me (inside the church), a guy transmiting live on the side of the girl. Just chaos. I was supposed to make video and photography. Applying the abilities I learn recording live bands in small places I made a nice 20 minutes video for her and almost 100 pictures.

Taking a look at the pros who do and are used to communion and church photography I can't compete with them, some pictures are just incredible and one of the main reasons is that my cameras are getting smaller for me, they are bridge cameras and to be real, there's a lot of phones now that make better pictures.

Despite my downer kind, I'm happy with these results because it was the first time doing it and I know now that if another one comes, I'll get better and better.

Inside the church it was hard to be able to take good pictures, it was dark, a lot of people in the middle blocking you and the inquisitorial look of the father when you approach too much to the altar limit a lot of what you can do. Thanks to a fast zoom I was able to reach nice compositions for her but I wasn't that happy with what we did inside the church so, I planned to do some pics outside, despite it wasn't planned. Also, we had to record and make pictures at the party after the church and it was like 5 hours, now I know I have to put a limit in time about that.

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This was an excellent experience for us and now I want to do more of this kind of job to get more experience and offer better results.

All pictures by Kirvic L. Aguilera