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Id love to get some advice and tips from you guys concerning a first-time weddingshoot (yep; another Help me, I need to shoot a wedding and I've never done that before-question). Allow me to explain the situation:
Ive been asked to take photos at the wedding of my brother and law and his girlfriend.
The thing is I mostly (if not only) shoot landscapes, cities and macros. Hardly done portraits, people or events. So this is new territory for me. Hence the request for some tips.
Music is a big part of their life - she sings and he plays guitar in the same band. That is why they had the idea to take some weddingphotos in a small music venue before the ceremony (hmm maybe theyre not that demanding but meanwhile they do have a notion of how it should look like). Its going to be on stage with spotlights on and hes going to bring his guitar.
So I can already think of numerous poses; that wont be the issue. The issue is taking good quality photos under these circumstances. Low light and the light that will be available is coming from harsh red, blue, green, yellow spotlights which you can hardly call flattering light. Ive already told them that these are not ideal circumstances and that unless they want to look like devils, smurfs or the incredible Hulk Ill probably have to convert the photos to black and white in pp. Theyre fine with that.
The gear I have at my disposal is a Canon 5d MIII (since a few weeks after using a Canon Rebel XTi for the past 5 years). Lenses are all Canon: a 24-105mm L f4 / 50mm f1.8 / 100mm f2.8 / 17-40mm L f4. And recently I got a Speedlite 430EX II (and a standard stofen) but I havent used it a lot yet to be honest. I always shoot in RAW and most of the time I use the AV mode. Also its basically permanently in AI Servo mode since I use back button focus.
I know of course that Ill be needing a fast lens so the 50mm is probably the best starting point but obviously too wide an aperture will result in a depth of field that is too narrow to use. And I need a fast enough shutterspeed to avoid motion blur. Im concerned about ending up with photos which are out of focus or have focus where it shouldnt be. Another risk is of course noise because of the high ISO values but hopefully I can fix that in pp (up to certain point).
I cant really estimate how effective the flash would be since theres nothing really to bounce the flash from. A friend of the bride will be present during the shoot so of course I could have her hold a piece of white paper for example. Or should I point it directly at the couple (both will be dressed in light clothing) with the stofen on?
Id love to hear how you would handle this. Or at least how would you start out? Which lens would you use, flash or not (and what settings or ETTL). And how would you set your camera (also in terms of light metering mode and AF mode etc.).
Thanks for hearing me out and I will appreciate the feed-back!
Ive been asked to take photos at the wedding of my brother and law and his girlfriend.
The thing is I mostly (if not only) shoot landscapes, cities and macros. Hardly done portraits, people or events. So this is new territory for me. Hence the request for some tips.
Music is a big part of their life - she sings and he plays guitar in the same band. That is why they had the idea to take some weddingphotos in a small music venue before the ceremony (hmm maybe theyre not that demanding but meanwhile they do have a notion of how it should look like). Its going to be on stage with spotlights on and hes going to bring his guitar.
So I can already think of numerous poses; that wont be the issue. The issue is taking good quality photos under these circumstances. Low light and the light that will be available is coming from harsh red, blue, green, yellow spotlights which you can hardly call flattering light. Ive already told them that these are not ideal circumstances and that unless they want to look like devils, smurfs or the incredible Hulk Ill probably have to convert the photos to black and white in pp. Theyre fine with that.
The gear I have at my disposal is a Canon 5d MIII (since a few weeks after using a Canon Rebel XTi for the past 5 years). Lenses are all Canon: a 24-105mm L f4 / 50mm f1.8 / 100mm f2.8 / 17-40mm L f4. And recently I got a Speedlite 430EX II (and a standard stofen) but I havent used it a lot yet to be honest. I always shoot in RAW and most of the time I use the AV mode. Also its basically permanently in AI Servo mode since I use back button focus.
I know of course that Ill be needing a fast lens so the 50mm is probably the best starting point but obviously too wide an aperture will result in a depth of field that is too narrow to use. And I need a fast enough shutterspeed to avoid motion blur. Im concerned about ending up with photos which are out of focus or have focus where it shouldnt be. Another risk is of course noise because of the high ISO values but hopefully I can fix that in pp (up to certain point).
I cant really estimate how effective the flash would be since theres nothing really to bounce the flash from. A friend of the bride will be present during the shoot so of course I could have her hold a piece of white paper for example. Or should I point it directly at the couple (both will be dressed in light clothing) with the stofen on?
Id love to hear how you would handle this. Or at least how would you start out? Which lens would you use, flash or not (and what settings or ETTL). And how would you set your camera (also in terms of light metering mode and AF mode etc.).
Thanks for hearing me out and I will appreciate the feed-back!