Second shooting. The act of shooting second. Being next in line to the throne. Yeah, OK, that has absolutely no relevance to this at all. It’s early, forgive me.

Second shooting is another way to describe the act of assisting a lead photographer at a shoot. The nice thing about what Dan and I have going as partners in A&D Photography, is that we have the support system afforded by a second shooter already built in. It’s like that song “Lean on Me” epitomized in the form of a photography business. (Coincidentally, I once had to dance out a choreographed routine to that song in front of a whole group of people. It was mildly mortifying. Except without the “mildly.” So yeah, just mortifying.)

Not all photographers have that built in partner, however, and so they frequently hire a second shooter. Photographers such as Gino Siller, who hired me to be his photography cohort for a day back in April. It was a great experience, and really interesting and educational to see how another photographer approaches a wedding shoot.

Here are two pictures that I shot that day. There are several other photos over on our A&D Photography site all set and waiting for you.

Thanks for reading, viewing, and stopping by.

Love and coffee to you,

-a.e.

p.s. And Happy May to you! Who would have thunk we’d be five months in to 2012 already!