shooting a wedding at night

I think you answered it. I was going to use my 24-105 for video at f22 so that I can get everyone in focus as they walk down the isle.

F22 and ISO56,000! I have a similar issue for my next wedding (if the couple decide to pay me, that is), I was going to go with a shorter lens, F8, and whatever iso the camera needs. Fingers crossed for good lighting!

enginyr wrote in post #9172561
I think you answered it. I was going to use my 24-105 for video at f22 so that I can get everyone in focus as they walk down the isle.

F/22 at night? I'm not sure that will work so well.

It's video. You just turn up the exposure or ISO

Yes, but your video framerate dictates your longest possible shutter speed. What I'm saying is that at night with minimal lighting, even at ISO25600 you'll likely be hitting that wall if you are shooting at f/22, and your video will either drop frames and get super choppy, or you'll have a video of a black scene where you can't see anything.

enginyr wrote in post #9173589
It's video. You just turn up the exposure or ISO

But your shutter speed will be limited to around 1/24th or 1/30th of a second. Apply the same attitude to still photography: why not push the ISO past the 200,000 mark and all night photography will be a non-issue?

I don't think video settings are the same as photography

enginyr wrote in post #9173724
I don't think video settings are the same as photography

They are. They capture light in the exact same way. The only difference is video is a constant stream of still photos, while photography is making art with a single still image. But they are still captured in the *EXACT* same way.

I'm not trying to be an ass. Honestly just trying to help you out here.

i'm a tard then. Thank's loyd

Oh title fairy!

The camera manual's pretty handy when you're thinking about video, i've read it three times now but still need a lot more practical experience to really work out how to use it.

i've been shooting video every night for about a month now and it is tricky to use professionally. I will tripod it the entire time. I just bought the rode video mic for sound and I'm editting in adobe premier pro.

Click here for the wedding from last night. Just a quickie

wow that bad...?

enginyr wrote in post #9196712
wow that bad...?

If you want critique you're best to start a thread with 6-8 images in the critique forum and link to it. Three pages of images are unlikely to be given feedback, especially when your images are half a meg each - that makes it slow for anyone to view them. 100kb max.

tim wrote in post #9153399
In 6 years of professional photography only ONE customer has commented on a noisy image. They said "it's a bit grainy", I said "yeah, it is". They didn't bring it up again.

So, respectfully, I suggest you get over your own pixel peeping fears and use your equipment as it was designed to be used! Take a torch so the 5DII auto focus can work though, as well as a speedlite for it's AF bean.

I had to use my 40d at ISO 3200 underexposed by 1 stop last saturday to get a fast enough shutter speed at the reception. Gotta do what you gotta do to get the shot- noisy? Yeah, a bit. but no motion blur.