Wedding photos without flash strobes ect

Zansho wrote in post #17833277
Here are some of my ambient only photos:

And some of my strobed exampes:

All excellent, but that B&W of the bride in the car, and the last shot along the shoreline at sunset are KILLER images! Nicely done!

Thank you for the compliments. Appreciated!

DJ's lights only.

Hi, I always try and shoot of much of the wedding day without flash, I think wedding guests prefer it. However that is not always possible in the UK depending upon light and the venue.

So many variables to get the right shot and when to use light or not. I feel if you cannot find enough reflection or sources to have the light bounce to capture the subject correctly, you should probably use artificial.

A perfect example of this is one of the best (at least in her mind and the people surrounding her and every magazine on the planet) photographer, Annie Leibovitz. Whenever doing any type of photo shoot, a great deal outside, she always uses several strobes or light sources plus reflectors when taking most photographs.

You can be a great photographer and take shots all day without flash and it is shown here by many to prove it; but during a wedding, when we can't go back the next day to do it all over, why risk not having it when you know you are going to probably have better success with some type of light source.

Have to ask you and we can use the same setup with equipment. And this could all be a mute point if manual focus. The first one, would love to see the shot you took right before it and one right after. I would guess and could be wrong and you are a very lucky person, they were out of focus. I am guessing with that shot, you are not just clicking once. But maybe you are. Also, what did you use to remove the noise? Nice job with this.

For us, it would be too risky with the 85 because of the focus and walking. Manual focus as well would be tricky and again if doing so, great job. That lens is great for portraits but even though you might have caught it, would not risk it with a moving subject. We would just not take the chance taking that shot with that lens. The focus is way to slow. And you were at 1/80 so curious if you were on a tripod? Looking at the pews and the slight angle, you probably were kneeling or could have been using the pew as a support to stay steady which helped.

The photos are great by the way, nice work.