My first wedding shoot

[DiskoJoe]

Remeber, fill light does not automaticaly mean flash or speedlights, or monlights. A reflector can go a long way. I ahve even used a white pillow as a fill one time. Now the ceremony pictures are something differant. I think you did a good job. It is the posed shot that you just need to slow a tiny bit down and fill in shadow and meter correctly. Even if the all the groom wants to do is get to the reception and drink, get the bride on your side and make him stand there just a minute longer so you can get the right exposure. (true story) Looks like the bride and groom you worked with were pretty cool.

They were. They are old friends. Bride is my best friends cousin. Ive know both of them for about 13 years.

 

[DiskoJoe]

You crazy you.. no flash!

Shoothing with no flash is about being at the right spot. Once you kinda know what is going on, you know whether something will look good without flash or not. Dont bother shooting it if you know it is going to be bad. You have to stand where you think you will get good light. Then when you shoot formal, you make them stand wherever you think will give you the best light. You control the shots.. you are the boss.

I was bossing them around some. Probably not as much as I should have though. I had a couple group shots after the reception that I did not post. They were trying to tell me how to shoot them and I had to break out the line, "I'm the photographer and not you. Now group togther, smile and let me do my job." No one else try to tell me what to do after that.

 

[jowensphoto]

I was bossing them around some. Probably not as much as I should have though. I had a couple group shots after the reception that I did not post. They were trying to tell me how to shoot them and I had to break out the line, "I'm the photographer and not you. Now group togther, smile and let me do my job." No one else try to tell me what to do after that.

Way to take control! That's one of my "issues" lol

 

[DiskoJoe]

I was bossing them around some. Probably not as much as I should have though. I had a couple group shots after the reception that I did not post. They were trying to tell me how to shoot them and I had to break out the line, "I'm the photographer and not you. Now group togther, smile and let me do my job." No one else try to tell me what to do after that.

Way to take control! That's one of my "issues" lol

Schwetty makes a good point. They hired you for a reason. Dont let them forget that.

 

[Trever1t]

#11 is the winner for me, it's lacking a bit of contrast but the fact she put the ring on his wrong hand is classic.


Keep shootin'.

 

[DiskoJoe]

#11 is the winner for me, it's lacking a bit of contrast but the fact she put the ring on his wrong hand is classic.


Keep shootin'.

We had a good laugh about that one. But in the end it really didnt matter. Everyone was so happy for them.

 

[CCericola]

Shooting portrait v horizontal was a challange for me at first because I had started in film on a hassy with a square crop. There was an entirely new train of thought when cropping in the camera going from a 6x6 to a 50D then to a 5D.

 

[DiskoJoe]

Shooting portrait v horizontal was a challange for me at first because I had started in film on a hassy with a square crop. There was an entirely new train of thought when cropping in the camera going from a 6x6 to a 50D then to a 5D.

You started with a hassleblad? No offense but I hate you, lol. Seriously, I hate you. Not really but I do.

For me I started out doing landscape photography, cityscape if you want to be specific. Get kinda stuck in that mode sometimes.

 

[DiskoJoe]

I hope they didn't pay you for this.



.. Couldn't resist.

Since these were friends and I really wanted to just see what I could do if given the responsibility I originally offered to do it for just lodging expenses since I had to travel out of town for the wedding. But they loved the pictures so much that they gave me an extra $250 and an old minolta srt-101 that had been sitting around at their house collecting dust.

 

[CCericola]

Shooting portrait v horizontal was a challange for me at first because I had started in film on a hassy with a square crop. There was an entirely new train of thought when cropping in the camera going from a 6x6 to a 50D then to a 5D.

You started with a hassleblad? No offense but I hate you, lol. Seriously, I hate you. Not really but I do.

For me I started out doing landscape photography, cityscape if you want to be specific. Get kinda stuck in that mode sometimes.

Well, in my defense it wasn't mine. It belonged to the studio I worked at. We also did school photos with a gigantic roll camera and 100 ft rolls of medium format film. I had some nice guns for awhile carrying all that crap around everyday. Girls, if you want to loose the flabby arms, go into school photography! Alas, Digital has made me soft

 

[DiskoJoe]

Shooting portrait v horizontal was a challange for me at first because I had started in film on a hassy with a square crop. There was an entirely new train of thought when cropping in the camera going from a 6x6 to a 50D then to a 5D.

You started with a hassleblad? No offense but I hate you, lol. Seriously, I hate you. Not really but I do.

For me I started out doing landscape photography, cityscape if you want to be specific. Get kinda stuck in that mode sometimes.

Well, in my defense it wasn't mine. It belonged to the studio I worked at. We also did school photos with a gigantic roll camera and 100 ft rolls of medium format film. I had some nice guns for awhile carrying all that crap around everyday. Girls, if you want to loose the flabby arms, go into school photography! Alas, Digital has made me soft

Cool. I have all new respect for school photographers.

 

[APHPHOTO]

Am I the only one who has issues with the horrible white balance.

 

[DiskoJoe]

Am I the only one who has issues with the horrible white balance.

I am open to suggestions about how to get a more cohesive feel over all.

But if you are referring to the color photos that might be tinted green or blue this is not an unintentional mistake. Some of the photos have been edited using cross process filter techniques.

 

[CCericola]

I recommend an expodisc for white balance. If you are shooting raw you can adjust the WB using the expodisc image after the fact. Or you can set the custom WB on the fly after you take the image of the expodisc. I set it on the fly but only because I can do it fast after a lot of practice. I set it on the fly because during the meal, I set up a slideshow from the small jpegs (shooting RAW+jpeg) and I want them close to the final product SOOC.

 

[DiskoJoe]

I recommend an expodisc for white balance. If you are shooting raw you can adjust the WB using the expodisc image after the fact. Or you can set the custom WB on the fly after you take the image of the expodisc. I set it on the fly but only because I can do it fast after a lot of practice. I set it on the fly because during the meal, I set up a slideshow from the small jpegs (shooting RAW+jpeg) and I want them close to the final product SOOC.

I've heard a lot about people uing the grey cards to set the white balance. This is something I will need to practice more. Ive never actually done this before.