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May 20, 2006 19:50 |  #1

I recently attended a friend's wedding and took my Rebel XT. Lighting was horrible and my pictures came out slightly grainy. What can I do to take these pictures to the next level.

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May 20, 2006 19:52 |  #2

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May 20, 2006 19:55 |  #3

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May 20, 2006 19:57 |  #4

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May 20, 2006 19:59 |  #5

You have two shots there where there is just a butt and a cut off head. Any reason for that?

I don't know how to fix the grainiess. Is there a softness feature in any of your packages? These kind of shots are perfect for vaseline :D


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May 20, 2006 20:10 |  #6

Noise ninja will do a pretty good job on taking care of a lot of the noise


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May 20, 2006 20:27 as a reply to  @ 35mm's post |  #7

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You have two shots there where there is just a butt and a cut off head. Any reason for that?

Just trying something different - being creative. I have about 200 of full bodies :-)


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May 20, 2006 22:22 |  #8

Need more information - what lens did you use? What were the settings? Did you use fill flash? Your camera is more then capable to take a good image. Maybe it is your experience or limitation of the lens used?

Konowledge of light is always good - especially with tough lighting situations.

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May 21, 2006 00:29 |  #9

Hi Stacie... I agree with some of the cropping issues. Just takes practice. I use to leave WAY to much headroom until I heard "Too much headroom" over and over... I hope you don't mind but I fixed the grain in one of the shots.


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May 21, 2006 06:03 |  #10

I like the idea, but i'm not sure you pulled it off. In #1 take a big step to the right if you can. #2 is ok but I don't like the two colors. #3 I don't see the point, no focus. The others are ok, nothing grabs me though. Also the exposures aren't very accurate. I like the ideas behind it, keep trying :)


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May 21, 2006 10:11 as a reply to  @ Sporto's post |  #11

Sporto wrote:
Need more information - what lens did you use? What were the settings? Did you use fill flash? Your camera is more then capable to take a good image. Maybe it is your experience or limitation of the lens used?

Konowledge of light is always good - especially with tough lighting situations.

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I used the Rebel XT kit lens, ISO 400, no flash (didn't want to bother anyone), 1/160s at f22. I have very little expereince, which is why I need C&C - help is very appreciated!


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May 21, 2006 10:12 as a reply to  @ newgenphoto's post |  #12

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Hi Stacie... I agree with some of the cropping issues. Just takes practice. I use to leave WAY to much headroom until I heard "Too much headroom" over and over... I hope you don't mind but I fixed the grain in one of the shots.

That's great. How did you fix the grain?

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May 21, 2006 12:06 |  #13

If you can expose photos correctly at ISO 400, f/22, and 1/160, the lighting certainly isn't bad by any means at all.


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May 21, 2006 12:35 |  #14

I love the cake picture. Made me jealous, as my last wedding was in a cave and all the cake pic's needed flash. As others have said, the crop of some of the images is questionable. If you're not including faces, you have to be including something to look at, ie there needs to be a point to the picture, other than chopping the heads off 'for a different view'. 2 and 3 don't really have a subject, but 7 does.
The exposures would probably have been better handled by the green square, I've never shot a wedding photo at f22, can't see why I ever would. No 4 would have been good if you'd opened up the lens so the background was thrown out of focus.
I've known photographers work from a cheat sheet for apertures, f2.8 for a person, f5.6 for a couple and f11 for a group, this is a start point but you'd need to learn when it won't work. I don't usually do C&C but I felt I had to comment on the f22 thing.


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May 21, 2006 14:47 as a reply to  @ staciecd's post |  #15

staciecd wrote:
That's great. How did you fix the grain?

Thanks!

Just ran the pic through Noiseware Pro - Very low settings as well.


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