schuylercat
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Hi all,
Posted a while back about my reentry into photography my stepson is getting married next year and hes asked me to shoot the event for him. I have to completely re-outfit myself to do it, which will cost a lot of money, but I have decided to go forward with it, despite very good advice to spend my money on a photographer and attend my boys wedding instead, all the better to start shooting professionally again.
My current hardware is Canon, with a 28-70 f2.8L and a 70-200 f28L (antiques but really, really sharp) for lenses. Ive got big old Bogen tri- and monopods, Pelican pluck foam cases and Lowepro backpacks and straps and filters up the wazoo, so Im equipped there. Ill have to buy all new stuff beyond that, with pretty steep budget in mind. Heres my shopping list:
Canon EOS 40D body
BG-E2N battery grip
3-4 batteries (I hear good things about aftermarket, and will experiment a little with them)
4-5 2GB CF cards (SanDisk Extreme III were highly recommended)
2 580EX Speedlite flashes
STE-2 Speedlite remote transmitter
Upgrade my version of Photoshop to the latest I still muddle through with version 4.1
All the above were selected with advice from people from this and other boards, and I thank you all for the advice youve offered. Additionally, I took a little more advice and offered to assist, for free, a local wedding photographer who shoots a Canon 30D and the same flash setup. Ive seen his work (he did my nephew), and hes very good with a dual-flash setup. He and I have similar backgrounds, too I used to shoot auto racing and specialty cars, and he shoots drifting and pimped-out Hondas for a living.
I have a wait ahead of me the shopping list totals about $3,000 and Im not there yet. The wedding is next June, so I have a bit of time.
And so from a technical standpoint, for those who shoot weddings: what do you carry and how do you work? I watched a guy years ago when I was shooting, he had a pair of old Hassys and a couple spare lenses and a big old Metz battery pack driven flash head. He carried about 10 film backs and still spent a good bit of time reloading them. He had 2 fair sized Anvil cases filled with crap, including separate lead-lined carriers, one for loaded film backs and one for rolls or 220 all Provia, which explains the Metz flash the size of a truck tire. The rig probably cost more than my first house, and the guy worked like a horse hauling this stuff around.
So do any of you shoot without a backup? How many batteries do you carry? Do you write to the card in RAW, JPEG, or both? What about bracketing when theyre standing in from of the cake, knife in hand, poised to cut, phony little smiles on their faces, do you fire off 3 bracketed shots? Do any of you carry little portable printers and clacker off little snapshots of family who havent seen each other since the last wedding as a little bonus gift? Have any of you been silly enough to shoot your own stepsons nuptials and been physically assaulted by his real dad, who is a greasy, uneducated, drunken, cheap, abusive, child-abandoning scumlicker?
Comment is invited.
Cheers all!
Rick
Posted a while back about my reentry into photography my stepson is getting married next year and hes asked me to shoot the event for him. I have to completely re-outfit myself to do it, which will cost a lot of money, but I have decided to go forward with it, despite very good advice to spend my money on a photographer and attend my boys wedding instead, all the better to start shooting professionally again.
My current hardware is Canon, with a 28-70 f2.8L and a 70-200 f28L (antiques but really, really sharp) for lenses. Ive got big old Bogen tri- and monopods, Pelican pluck foam cases and Lowepro backpacks and straps and filters up the wazoo, so Im equipped there. Ill have to buy all new stuff beyond that, with pretty steep budget in mind. Heres my shopping list:
Canon EOS 40D body
BG-E2N battery grip
3-4 batteries (I hear good things about aftermarket, and will experiment a little with them)
4-5 2GB CF cards (SanDisk Extreme III were highly recommended)
2 580EX Speedlite flashes
STE-2 Speedlite remote transmitter
Upgrade my version of Photoshop to the latest I still muddle through with version 4.1
All the above were selected with advice from people from this and other boards, and I thank you all for the advice youve offered. Additionally, I took a little more advice and offered to assist, for free, a local wedding photographer who shoots a Canon 30D and the same flash setup. Ive seen his work (he did my nephew), and hes very good with a dual-flash setup. He and I have similar backgrounds, too I used to shoot auto racing and specialty cars, and he shoots drifting and pimped-out Hondas for a living.
I have a wait ahead of me the shopping list totals about $3,000 and Im not there yet. The wedding is next June, so I have a bit of time.
And so from a technical standpoint, for those who shoot weddings: what do you carry and how do you work? I watched a guy years ago when I was shooting, he had a pair of old Hassys and a couple spare lenses and a big old Metz battery pack driven flash head. He carried about 10 film backs and still spent a good bit of time reloading them. He had 2 fair sized Anvil cases filled with crap, including separate lead-lined carriers, one for loaded film backs and one for rolls or 220 all Provia, which explains the Metz flash the size of a truck tire. The rig probably cost more than my first house, and the guy worked like a horse hauling this stuff around.
So do any of you shoot without a backup? How many batteries do you carry? Do you write to the card in RAW, JPEG, or both? What about bracketing when theyre standing in from of the cake, knife in hand, poised to cut, phony little smiles on their faces, do you fire off 3 bracketed shots? Do any of you carry little portable printers and clacker off little snapshots of family who havent seen each other since the last wedding as a little bonus gift? Have any of you been silly enough to shoot your own stepsons nuptials and been physically assaulted by his real dad, who is a greasy, uneducated, drunken, cheap, abusive, child-abandoning scumlicker?
Comment is invited.
Cheers all!
Rick