texkam wrote in post #17034000
That's like the cake maker asking which mixing bowl should I use. Come on man, you've shot both these leQUOTEYou know shooting an 18-55mm is a whole different world than shooting an 55-250mm. You'll need to use which ever is appropriate for what you're trying to capture. We've not seen the venue, or know what kind of access you will have to the subject matter, or even how large the subject matter (wedding party) will be. We don't know what the lighting will be like. My best pointer would be to make sure the client absolutely understands that they could end up with nothing usable. If they are OK with that, shoot with confidence. I would use the 55-250 when you need to get in tight and the 18-55 for the rest. Bounce your flash as much as you can. Make sure you use a fast enough shutter speed (at the expense of iso). Sharp and noisy is better than blurry and clean. If possible, educate yourself ahead of time to the proceedings. If not possible anticipate them and position yourself accordingly. Take charge, but don't be overly intrusive.
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The longer telephotos will compress the scene so you need to go further away with the nifty 250 and zoom in tight. Look up reviews of this lense to see the where IQ starts to drop, and also for how wide you need your aperture to be. Go too wide and you'll get soft pictur. Also, see how dark pics are at full zoom, and how high you can go with ISO before noise is an issue. On my 70D I can push Iso up to 40000 and use 125-160 for shutter with an aperture of 5.6 or 6.3. If you have a rebel series then go no higher than ISO 1600 and shoot wider to allow more lighting, but stick to 120 for your shutter. You need to take a few photos at the venue at the same time as the ceremony. My settings will work without flash.If you need flash, bounce it, but make sure your shutter speed is below the max synch speed.If you don't know this, keep shutter to 200 as most cheaper guns synch at 200, and if you go too high you'll get half your image black. Practice makes perfect, so take some engagement pictures to help you.
