While the job of a wedding photographer might seem all fun and easy, even the most professional from the lot can have moments of panic and idea block during the wedding day, wondering what shot to take next, what poses to capture, what lighting effects to apply, and so on. However, thanks to technology, you can now lay your hands on a range of helpful apps that can provide you with all the inspiration, guidance, information, and tips that you need on wedding photography. Listed below are five useful iOS apps that every wedding photographer must know about. Recommended reading: 6 iOS Apps You Need to Bring Your Dream Home to Life.

Second Shooter

If you’re into wedding photography, Second Shooter is a fantastic iPhone app which is seriously as good as having your very own personal photography assistant! The app effectively helps you manage all your photography events by allowing you to create an event and systematically store all information regarding your clients. The best part about this app is that it also allows you to create a handy checklist where you can quickly note down all the must-have shots that you can think of, so that you don’t miss out on anything during the wedding day. Right from shots of the wedding dress, to shots of the ring, or even close up shots of the flowers and other decorations, all this could go into the list. You can even include easily forgettable questions in the list, which you might tend to forget to ask during your first meeting with the family members.

Wedding Photographer Trainer

For all those difficult moments you could possibly face during a shoot, Wedding Photographer Trainer is the app that will help you through. Keeping wedding photography in mind, this app is packed with a range of nifty images, tips, and facts to get your imagination running. Right from tips on what to do and not to do, to a guide full of different poses and inspiring images, this awesome app will open your mind and get your creativity flowing. The app gives you access to more than 200 inspiring images, with every image having its own tip and description attached to it.

Wedding Photographer’s Toolkit

Wedding Photographer’s Toolkit is yet another brilliant app that swears to get the best out of your shoots. The app is packed with an exhaustive database full of photography tricks, tips, and how-to’s ideal for wedding photographers. The app is beautifully designed and has a simple interface which makes it easy for users to navigate between photography essentials with the help of intuitive toolbars and buttons. The app has plenty to offer in helping you stay updated with traditional and modern weddings. Be it lighting information for indoors, outdoors, ceremony, and receptions, or lens selection guidance for different events, or even if you want to have a look at a pose guide for different members of the wedding party, this awesome app pretty much has it all. What’s more, the app even gives you access to tips on composition, retouching, and so on. The toolkit section of the app will constantly give you updated information on camera equipment, books, workshops, contracts, as well as online resources.

Lights, Camera, Capture!

Based on the popular book by Bob Davis, Lights, Camera, Capture! is an incredible app for iPad and iPhone, which helps budding photographers achieve the best possible images with minimal lighting equipment. The app is armed with more than 100 nifty videos as well as interactive diagrams that will help you get a better understanding on a series of things such as lighting effects, equipment settings, high resolution images, workshop videos, on-scene shoots, and so much more. Bob Davis is essentially a professional photographer whose work has appeared in magazines like Time and People. Via this app which is based on his book, he gets you acquainted with his techniques that let you create studio-quality lighting anywhere with minimal equipment.

Wedding Photo Tips

Whether you’re a professional or aspiring wedding photographer, Wedding Photo Tips is yet another handy app that definitely deserves your attention. Wedding photo tips is basically an inspiring iPad app that frequently updates itself and offers to its users a plethora of tips, tricks, and insight info about wedding photography. With the help of this app, you can have an exclusive view behind the scenes at different wedding shoots, which includes equipment, tricks, tips, insight information, and other such features used for that wedding shoot. So if you’re looking for to get your creativity flowing, along with some ultimate images, tips, and tricks to inspire you, Wedding Photo Tips is the perfect app for you. Recommended reading: 5 Great Design Apps That Will Help You Create The Perfect Home.

This article is authored by Shruti Vaghe, a freelance blogger for Landmark Venues, providers of the best wedding locations in NYC. She is very fond of photography and is always saving up for the newest D-SLRs to hit the market.