pgriz
Been spending a lot of time on here!
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Yeah, I thought that would get your attention. And no, it's not for pay.
So here's the scenario. My oldest daughter's best friend is getting married this weekend at a very posh resort about three hours from us. My daughter's the maid of honour. We are very good friends with the family, so all that is cool. They hired a professional photographer to do the ceremony and the reception. That's excellent. Now the bride has asked me to do a video of the ceremony. I told her I just don't have the equipment to do it. She said, "but you take such good pictures!". Maybe, with a tripod, macro lens and a flash or two, my bug shots are decent. But that doesn't translate to photographing ceremonies. Still, she insists. Anything will be wonderful.
Sigh.
Now, I have a T1i (yeah, musueum-quality) with a 24-105 f/4 lens. My telephoto is a 70-200mm f/4 as well. So low-light performance will be lacking. Can't use flash (it's a video, remember?). Have no external mike for the sound. Have no idea what the lighting will be, but it is probably safe to say that it will be "intimate". I'm going to experiment with ISO 800, and see what kind of image I can coax out of it at f/4. Maybe the Magic Lantern hacks I've installed for photography will help. Have 1 day to see what I can come up with. That's complicated by having to supervise one client job and having to to inspections/quotes/presentations to two prospects. So I figure I can carve out maybe two-three hours of playing around until it's time to go. So, other than doing the rational thing and saying "no" and repeating until they understand, what else would you suggest I do?
Oh, and snarky remarks are OK. I do have a sense of humour.
So here's the scenario. My oldest daughter's best friend is getting married this weekend at a very posh resort about three hours from us. My daughter's the maid of honour. We are very good friends with the family, so all that is cool. They hired a professional photographer to do the ceremony and the reception. That's excellent. Now the bride has asked me to do a video of the ceremony. I told her I just don't have the equipment to do it. She said, "but you take such good pictures!". Maybe, with a tripod, macro lens and a flash or two, my bug shots are decent. But that doesn't translate to photographing ceremonies. Still, she insists. Anything will be wonderful.
Sigh.
Now, I have a T1i (yeah, musueum-quality) with a 24-105 f/4 lens. My telephoto is a 70-200mm f/4 as well. So low-light performance will be lacking. Can't use flash (it's a video, remember?). Have no external mike for the sound. Have no idea what the lighting will be, but it is probably safe to say that it will be "intimate". I'm going to experiment with ISO 800, and see what kind of image I can coax out of it at f/4. Maybe the Magic Lantern hacks I've installed for photography will help. Have 1 day to see what I can come up with. That's complicated by having to supervise one client job and having to to inspections/quotes/presentations to two prospects. So I figure I can carve out maybe two-three hours of playing around until it's time to go. So, other than doing the rational thing and saying "no" and repeating until they understand, what else would you suggest I do?
Oh, and snarky remarks are OK. I do have a sense of humour.