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Don ­ Powell
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May 16, 2006 22:15 as a reply to  @ post 1517299 |  #16

Viodea, I just found out that I'm also in your situation, so to speak. Iv'e been coerced into shooting the wedding for my Son in law's son from my son in law's previous marriage. ( I think I have this right.) Anyway they say they can't afford a photograher, so the family says I have to do it. I havn't shot a wedding for 20 yrs, and I only did a few then with medium format and a lot of flash. Now I only have one Rebel XT. I DON'T HAVE TWO OF EVERYTHING AS I DID THEN!
Note Tim's advise about the histogram. You do have time to practice this use of the histogram to get your exposures right on. When you crank up the ISO you have to get the exposure spot on, or you will have bad noise. Even if the ISO is not high, getting good exposures can do a lot for your picture quality, or at least ease your PP effort. You must have POWER AND STORAGE. Get a backup battery for your camera. Borrow or steal more CF storage. Shoot RAW. Make sure you have flash power. Do what you know. I will say this for myself. The wedding is not the time to guess or experiment. Get good exposures and framing, with good honest, real expressions on the subjects faces, and you will make a lot of people happy.




  
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May 16, 2006 22:39 |  #17

I'll play with my setting and histogram. This is one of those things I love digial. Maybe that's the reason there are so many non-Pro doing wedding nowaday.
Most people don't understand taking landscape and travel pictures are so different from wedding. They always assume if you take good pictures, you can do wedding too. I really hate to do wedding and I have turned down a few times because I know I'm not ready for it. Too bad this time I can't dodge the bullet.
I hope after this I'll be better at it and make people happy.




  
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May 17, 2006 17:07 as a reply to  @ viodea's post |  #18

I want to wish you the best of luck. Oh, make friends with the band or DJ. They can be very helpful in informing you of the sequence of things. Tell them that you will apreciate their input. I was on the music side of the weddings for many years, and I always tried to inform or assist the photographer. Of course by the time you talk to the music guy, you will have already shot a lot of the wedding. BTW my wedding shoot is June 3rd. I sorta dread it, cus I'm not going to be doing any more, anytime soon!




  
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May 18, 2006 11:21 |  #19

thanks Don.
I don't think they'll a band or DJ there.




  
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May 18, 2006 11:23 |  #20

Is there anything I SHOULDN'T do?




  
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