Claire
4th of May 2005 (Wed), 04:35
Ok, I'm back in Sweden after being in Minneapolis for my friend's wedding.
The wedding was a very (according to the Best Man) "as traditional of an American wedding you can get". We had the nice church, the three bridesmaids/groomsmen, obligatory cute small children, nice ceremony, tons of picture taking, decent food and so on.
I managed to breath, eat and dance in my bridesmaid dress and took quite a few pics. Going through them this week. I really wanted to get the 50mm 1.8 before the wedding, but didn't want to bother the bride with it so had to use my kit lens. This in turn meant upting the ISO to anything from 400-1600. The blur sucks, but I think I still got some decent shots.
At least now I know how American wedding photographers work a bit more (granted everyone works differently). There were TONS of formals being taken, and the main photographer had said he didn't mind people taking pics so I kept shooting over his shoulder and when he wasn't shooting. Later he told me he took a record breaking 23 rolls x 36 exp. and his assistant took another 400 exp.
Well, I had a blast at the wedding anyway and happy I got some nice pics. One of the attendants had a Hasselblad with her and I wanted to steal it badly. LOL Then when the photographer let me try his 20D I wanted to steal that one too (with the lenses too of course!)
The whole thing went very smooth, and I had a good time. I didn't catch the boquet, the DJ wasn't cute, but the photographer and his assistant were. LOL Turns out both the photographer and assistant were half Scandinavian too (what to expect in MN?), and I chatted...*cough* flirted *cough* with the photographer quite a few times. Even got me a dance with the photographer. ;)
Will be posting some of my shots hopefully sometime this week. Unfortunately I'm not in any of them... :( Should have asked someone to take a pic of me too.
/Claire
The wedding was a very (according to the Best Man) "as traditional of an American wedding you can get". We had the nice church, the three bridesmaids/groomsmen, obligatory cute small children, nice ceremony, tons of picture taking, decent food and so on.
I managed to breath, eat and dance in my bridesmaid dress and took quite a few pics. Going through them this week. I really wanted to get the 50mm 1.8 before the wedding, but didn't want to bother the bride with it so had to use my kit lens. This in turn meant upting the ISO to anything from 400-1600. The blur sucks, but I think I still got some decent shots.
At least now I know how American wedding photographers work a bit more (granted everyone works differently). There were TONS of formals being taken, and the main photographer had said he didn't mind people taking pics so I kept shooting over his shoulder and when he wasn't shooting. Later he told me he took a record breaking 23 rolls x 36 exp. and his assistant took another 400 exp.
Well, I had a blast at the wedding anyway and happy I got some nice pics. One of the attendants had a Hasselblad with her and I wanted to steal it badly. LOL Then when the photographer let me try his 20D I wanted to steal that one too (with the lenses too of course!)
The whole thing went very smooth, and I had a good time. I didn't catch the boquet, the DJ wasn't cute, but the photographer and his assistant were. LOL Turns out both the photographer and assistant were half Scandinavian too (what to expect in MN?), and I chatted...*cough* flirted *cough* with the photographer quite a few times. Even got me a dance with the photographer. ;)
Will be posting some of my shots hopefully sometime this week. Unfortunately I'm not in any of them... :( Should have asked someone to take a pic of me too.
/Claire