December 30, 2006 was the first time I ever shot a wedding. Thanks to Tim Co the Opportunity of a lifetime. It opened a whole new light to me. It was awsome.
LET DO ANOTHER ONE!
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First one, Really? You are on your way to being a GREAT wedding photographer, fantastic stuff!
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First one, Really? You are on your way to being a GREAT wedding photographer, fantastic stuff!
yeahh the first one. Thanks so much.
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First one, Really? You are on your way to being a GREAT wedding photographer, fantastic stuff!
+1
WOW!
I have to admit you know more about wedding photography than I did when I was starting up “ not that long ago”. You do see beyond what is in the viewfinder, and that is what separates a good photographer from a bad one. Few things that I have notice and you have to pay attention to:
F-stop – a lot new photographers like to go very low on the f-stop simple because is the simplest trick to learn “ I did that to”. I am sure that you know all the benefits of shooting on the low F but there are also things that work against it. Depth of field is extremely low for example if you focus with f 1.8 lens on nose eyes may be already blurred, also everything closer to the center will be much sharper that detail closer to edges of the frame.
Compensation - YOU CANNOT DEPEND ON THE CAMERA LIGHTMETER!!!
Depending on how many “brides” or “darks” cameras see in the frame it will adjust to it automatically. Unfortunately those readings are hardly ever correct due to the fact that camera can not see different between bright color and bright light and often it will take bright color “ a wedding dress” for a bright light and automatically will set shatter speed accordingly. You have to compensate for it to assure proper exposure.
On few images background is totally over exposed. Next time you have chance to do something like that. Try that…
Canon Settings
Shoot in AV mode compensate shutter speed -2 and use fill flash. That will underexpose the background but your foreground will still get enough light. Of course that will depend on the light – just play with the settings.
Shooting motion (guys jumping in to the pool)– lower ISO will allow you to go with faster shutter speed therefore sharper images. In low light Flash will freeze the motion.
The sepia conversion BAD!!!!! Here you can learn a good one. http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/PhotoTonerSM.mov
If you like discussing those things in detail just message me I will be more than happy to help you out.
Keep up good job!!
Again my English is bad and I know it sorry!!
F-stop – a lot new photographers like to go very low on the f-stop simple because is the simplest trick to learn “ I did that to”. I am sure that you know all the benefits of shooting on the low F but there are also things that work against it. Depth of field is extremely low for example if you focus with f 1.8 lens on nose eyes may be already blurred, also everything closer to the center will be much sharper that detail closer to edges of the frame.
Compensation - YOU CANNOT DEPEND ON THE CAMERA LIGHTMETER!!!
Depending on how many “brides” or “darks” cameras see in the frame it will adjust to it automatically. Unfortunately those readings are hardly ever correct due to the fact that camera can not see different between bright color and bright light and often it will take bright color “ a wedding dress” for a bright light and automatically will set shatter speed accordingly. You have to compensate for it to assure proper exposure.
On few images background is totally over exposed. Next time you have chance to do something like that. Try that…
Canon Settings
Shoot in AV mode compensate shutter speed -2 and use fill flash. That will underexpose the background but your foreground will still get enough light. Of course that will depend on the light – just play with the settings.
Shooting motion (guys jumping in to the pool)– lower ISO will allow you to go with faster shutter speed therefore sharper images. In low light Flash will freeze the motion.
The sepia conversion BAD!!!!! Here you can learn a good one. http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/PhotoTonerSM.mov
If you like discussing those things in detail just message me I will be more than happy to help you out.
Keep up good job!!
Again my English is bad and I know it sorry!!
Thanks for the comments. I learned alot from the day, light situations and shutter speed and motion. Im sure ill be 10 times better next time because i shoot everyday.
Ray thanks for coming out and shooting with me! YOU WERE AWESOME! 100000x's better than my first wedding!
Ray has not even had his 20D for a week! All u need is time my friend...
What impresses me the most about working with him is not only his super humble attitude towards learning photography but his large grasp of the technical side of photography. He knows quite a bit for not ever actually having a camera to play with and test things on!! Ray you rock and I cant wait to hang again!
Ray has not even had his 20D for a week! All u need is time my friend...
What impresses me the most about working with him is not only his super humble attitude towards learning photography but his large grasp of the technical side of photography. He knows quite a bit for not ever actually having a camera to play with and test things on!! Ray you rock and I cant wait to hang again!
Wow!! Way better than my first wedding. The content of the images are great.
As you get more used to your camera and settings I am sure you will fix a lot of these things- heck i still get blurry photos.
Watch what your auto focus is looking at- a few images (the bridesmaid in front of the couch) had the wrong thing in focus-the couch instead of the bridesmaid
watch your depth of field- I lose more great photos because my depth of field was to shallow and the wrong thing was in focus
I don't mind the blown-out backgrounds just be aware that the light meter gets confused by bright light and you need to move it a stop or two- "the mirror shot"- sometimes if you are not sure of the exposure then turn away from the window and see what you meter and change the exposure to that- there really was no way to avoid the blown out window unless you used flash
I loved the content and you did an amazing job just some technical stuff which will get worked out as you shoot more- plan a timco tour- this time next year you'll be charging $10,000. LOL
As you get more used to your camera and settings I am sure you will fix a lot of these things- heck i still get blurry photos.
Watch what your auto focus is looking at- a few images (the bridesmaid in front of the couch) had the wrong thing in focus-the couch instead of the bridesmaid
watch your depth of field- I lose more great photos because my depth of field was to shallow and the wrong thing was in focus
I don't mind the blown-out backgrounds just be aware that the light meter gets confused by bright light and you need to move it a stop or two- "the mirror shot"- sometimes if you are not sure of the exposure then turn away from the window and see what you meter and change the exposure to that- there really was no way to avoid the blown out window unless you used flash
I loved the content and you did an amazing job just some technical stuff which will get worked out as you shoot more- plan a timco tour- this time next year you'll be charging $10,000. LOL
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