Wedding Photo in a Park

gonzogolf wrote in post #10994132
If fill was used here, you didnt underexpose the ambient enough to make the fill apparent and to control the sky. You usually want to underexpose the background by 1.5 to 2 stops to saturate the background and use the flash to highlight your subject. Obviously thats done to taste so your mileage may vary.

I see what you mean. I am just wandering that if I maintained my shallow DoF and just increased the shutter speed, would I be asking too much of my flash at HSS mode?

UncleNed wrote in post #10994151
I see what you mean. I am just wandering that if I maintained my shallow DoF and just increased the shutter speed, would I be asking too much of my flash at HSS mode?

Dont worry so much about using aperture to maintain shallow DOF when you can achieve separation by letting those thing go darker and lights on the subject.

gonzogolf wrote in post #10994164
Dont worry so much about using aperture to maintain shallow DOF when you can achieve separation by letting those thing go darker and lights on the subject.

makes sense. I mean there wasn't any real reason why I had to stick f2.2. f4 would have still acheived my objective, but dropped the background by that 1-1.5 stop.

UncleNed wrote in post #10994173
makes sense. I mean there wasn't any real reason why I had to stick f2.2. f4 would have still acheived my objective, but dropped the background by that 1-1.5 stop.

Read this thread and you will get a different sense of what to do when you get this situation in the future.

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=653964

could have decreased your ISO as well..

watch for intersecting lines in shots.. take more time to compose

some comments:
1) the building over there heads is a little odd
2) the sky (already mentioned)
3) are they in focus? doesn't look like it to me... there seems to be a halo around the guys head. Is that from PP?