Greg_C
26th of March 2006 (Sun), 05:17
Yesterday I attended my sister in-law's wedding. NOT as the professional, just as an enthusiastic family member. I've been lurking here for some time trying to pick up anything I could. I had a brief moment at the brides house to chat to the official photog and check what he was happy with me doing. He's a great guy and pretty much gave me free rein on everything except the setup shots. I wasn't interested in these, well I was but couldn't do any as my primary job for the night was as MC. This meant I had to be at the reception whilst they had these shots taken.
As a result I tended to look more for candid's and get things that the pro wouldn't have (something I read about here). I've already created a very rough Proshow show for the family to see. I plan to refine this as I process the images more. Lighting was the issue as I thought it would be, the church was very dark and so was the reception room. Inside I shot high ISO's on the 30D and from the couple of test prints at 6x4 I'm very impressed. I did process them in Neat Image to cut the noise a bit. I've only looked at a few jpgs so far and haven't touched the RAW. I shot RAW + large fine jpg's. At the moment DPP 2.1 is the only thing to process the RAW's in.
Overall I had fun and can certainly see what people mean when they say these events are difficult to do well. Don't know at this stage if I'd do this professionally, but certainly want to do more to improve my skills. Just watching the pro direct traffic to get the people he wanted, where he wanted, was an eye opener. Personality and presentation was a big part of it.
Any comments welcome. All these shots were taken either before the pro arrived or when he had finished.
With the first two everybody had gotten over me walking around with the camera plus her attention had to be elsewhere.
No 1 Makeup time - Bride getting ready
85.00 mm 1/100 s at F 1.80 with ISO 200
http://www.steadyhands.net/photogallery/albums/temp/image10302.jpg
No 2 This is a crop, the markup artist was only just in frame and inspecting her work, I removed her. I'm kinda undecided on this one, is it too serious?
85.00 mm 1/125 s at F 2.20 with ISO 200
http://www.steadyhands.net/photogallery/albums/temp/image10301.jpg
No 3 Candid moment. I was at the pre-reception drinks when they walked out onto this balcony. Part of a small series. Best thing was they just ignored us.
24-105 mm at 105.00 mm 1/40 s at F 4.00 with ISO 1,600
http://www.steadyhands.net/photogallery/albums/temp/image10300.jpg
As a result I tended to look more for candid's and get things that the pro wouldn't have (something I read about here). I've already created a very rough Proshow show for the family to see. I plan to refine this as I process the images more. Lighting was the issue as I thought it would be, the church was very dark and so was the reception room. Inside I shot high ISO's on the 30D and from the couple of test prints at 6x4 I'm very impressed. I did process them in Neat Image to cut the noise a bit. I've only looked at a few jpgs so far and haven't touched the RAW. I shot RAW + large fine jpg's. At the moment DPP 2.1 is the only thing to process the RAW's in.
Overall I had fun and can certainly see what people mean when they say these events are difficult to do well. Don't know at this stage if I'd do this professionally, but certainly want to do more to improve my skills. Just watching the pro direct traffic to get the people he wanted, where he wanted, was an eye opener. Personality and presentation was a big part of it.
Any comments welcome. All these shots were taken either before the pro arrived or when he had finished.
With the first two everybody had gotten over me walking around with the camera plus her attention had to be elsewhere.
No 1 Makeup time - Bride getting ready
85.00 mm 1/100 s at F 1.80 with ISO 200
http://www.steadyhands.net/photogallery/albums/temp/image10302.jpg
No 2 This is a crop, the markup artist was only just in frame and inspecting her work, I removed her. I'm kinda undecided on this one, is it too serious?
85.00 mm 1/125 s at F 2.20 with ISO 200
http://www.steadyhands.net/photogallery/albums/temp/image10301.jpg
No 3 Candid moment. I was at the pre-reception drinks when they walked out onto this balcony. Part of a small series. Best thing was they just ignored us.
24-105 mm at 105.00 mm 1/40 s at F 4.00 with ISO 1,600
http://www.steadyhands.net/photogallery/albums/temp/image10300.jpg