First Solo Wedding

Hey guys, this is technically my second wedding so far. My first was last June and I was the primary shooter with a family member who had volunteered to the bride. I learned a lot and have done a lot of portrait work between then and now. This couple is related to another family that I do a lot of work for and I was recommended for the job. Here's what I came up with (limiting to 8), let me know what you think.

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Looks good, really not much to gripe at. Great color in the first few. I would have added some more contrast to the black and white conversions, but that's just my preference. The look down the aisle looks a little crooked to me, but maybe I've got crooked eyes.

I'm sure the couple is quite happy with your work!

k4j98 wrote in post #17788879
Looks good, really not much to gripe at. Great color in the first few. I would have added some more contrast to the black and white conversions, but that's just my preference. The look down the aisle looks a little crooked to me, but maybe I've got crooked eyes.

I'm sure the couple is quite happy with your work!

Thanks for the CC! Good call on the BW contrasts, I can bump those up a tad. The look down the aisle is throw off by the angled ceiling, making it look crooked.

The couple is very happy, me too!

Thanks for the feedback!

Excellent!

Nice work, thanks for sharing!

Thank you!

Really like your people shots.

The 'down the aisle' look would have benefited greatly I think with the 24-70 2.8 lens. Would have kept your 24mm with 1/50 but added a bit more light.

Great pics though!!!

BallerStatus wrote in post #17788896
The look down the aisle is throw off by the angled ceiling, making it look crooked.

Thanks for the feedback!

I wondered if it was the slanted ceiling playing tricks.

No problem--nice work capturing the moments!

Oh I just realized they're flailing glow sticks as the new couple emerges. That's fun!

So quick technical question...

Your ceremony photos are at 12800, and I understand it's because of the lack of flash...but the photos are still very clean to my eye.

Then I noticed your reception shots are at 400 iso at 1/15 shutter speed. Did you have any trouble shooting the reception at that kind of shutter speed...even with the flash?

By suggesting otherwise...just curious if there was a particular reason you dropped the ISO so low.

pigpile34 wrote in post #17788905
Really like your people shots.

The 'down the aisle' look would have benefited greatly I think with the 24-70 2.8 lens. Would have kept your 24mm with 1/50 but added a bit more light.

Great pics though!!!

Thanks for your comment! Yeah, I rented 2 6D's for this (very glad I did) and used my own lenses. The 24-70 would have been fun, but would have cut into my budget. Used what I had.

k4j98 wrote in post #17788906
I wondered if it was the slanted ceiling playing tricks.

No problem--nice work capturing the moments!

Oh I just realized they're flailing glow sticks as the new couple emerges. That's fun!

Thank you! Yeah the glow sticks were pretty fun!

agrandexpression wrote in post #17788912
So quick technical question...

Your ceremony photos are at 12800, and I understand it's because of the lack of flash...but the photos are still very clean to my eye.

Then I noticed your reception shots are at 400 iso at 1/15 shutter speed. Did you have any trouble shooting the reception at that kind of shutter speed...even with the flash?

By suggesting otherwise...just curious if there was a particular reason you dropped the ISO so low.

Yes, the bride didn't want any flash during the ceremony (knew this ahead of time), so I had to lean heavily on the 6D's ISO. Glad I rented these, my old 5D's wouldn't have worked. I set the Auto ISO to a min shutter speed of 1/250th knowing that it would probably be pegged to max the whole time, but I wanted sharp shots. So there were lots at 12800 (max in Auto ISO mode). About 35 noise reduction in Lightroom.

I was allowed free reign on flash at the reception, so I had one flash on a stand near the dance floor, and one on camera. I ended up turning off the one on the stand and focused on using the one light on camera since I was moving around a lot. The reception venue was very dark, so I didn't really have any competing lights. I shot at 1/15 to allow ambient to show up in the background. The flash let me freeze the subject and then the slow shutter speed let the ambient try to catch up. At f/4, ISO 400 was all I needed. I was happy to have clean images after the comparatively noisy ceremony photos.

Very nicely done. Keep going.

Thank you! Hope to line up some more soon!

Nice job. I love the conversion to black and white on those high ISO's to help hide the noise.

Thanks! No fooling you guys with BW tricks huh?

BallerStatus wrote in post #17788983
Thanks! No fooling you guys with BW tricks huh?

I do the same thing

Great job on your first solo wedding!

The main thing that jumped out to me, although b&w conversations are really lovely and clean, all three seem to have some different toning. Maybe I am wrong, but if so I would suggest keeping a consistent finish.