Shooting my first wedding

**clackers** · 06-21-2017, 04:00 PM

If your flashes are manual, each time you shift location quickly do several test shots before asking the subjects to pose - you need to chimp to get the flash/ambient levels right.

After that, as long as you don't change the shooting distance, your pictures will be nicely consistent, and not thrown by background reflections the way P-TTL can be.

amitpatel · 07-20-2017, 09:18 AM

If it is ok with your clients, can you please share some shots from the wedding for us to see the image quality !!!

kooks · 07-20-2017, 12:11 PM

Originally posted by amitpatel

If it is ok with your clients, can you please share some shots from the wedding for us to see the image quality !!!

who??

Wasp · 07-20-2017, 02:02 PM

A trick from my film days that worked great for taking photos in near darkness was to pre-focus my 50mm to a distance of 3m and stop down to f/11. According to the depth of field scale on the lens everything from 2m to 5m would be in focus. A powerful flash is needed to make this work but my AF400T was up to the job. There was just enough margin so that TTL (off the film) metering worked. Not sure about how well this would translate to APS-C crop frame. Some DOF calculations needed.

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06-21-2017, 04:00 PM	#16
clackers Otis Memorial Pentaxian Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Melbourne Photos: Albums Posts: 16,397	If your flashes are manual, each time you shift location quickly do several test shots before asking the subjects to pose - you need to chimp to get the flash/ambient levels right. After that, as long as you don't change the shooting distance, your pictures will be nicely consistent, and not thrown by background reflections the way P-TTL can be.

07-20-2017, 09:18 AM	#17
amitpatel New Member Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 7	If it is ok with your clients, can you please share some shots from the wedding for us to see the image quality !!!

07-20-2017, 12:11 PM	#18
kooks Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: San José, Costa Rica Photos: Albums Posts: 794	Originally posted by amitpatel If it is ok with your clients, can you please share some shots from the wedding for us to see the image quality !!! who??

07-20-2017, 02:02 PM	#19
Wasp Pentaxian Join Date: Mar 2017 Location: Pretoria Photos: Gallery Posts: 4,660	A trick from my film days that worked great for taking photos in near darkness was to pre-focus my 50mm to a distance of 3m and stop down to f/11. According to the depth of field scale on the lens everything from 2m to 5m would be in focus. A powerful flash is needed to make this work but my AF400T was up to the job. There was just enough margin so that TTL (off the film) metering worked. Not sure about how well this would translate to APS-C crop frame. Some DOF calculations needed.