It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
If you must have something check out www.mpb.com for a second hand job.
you'll need 4 or 5 sets of batteries
I did my mate's wedding in 1999, and used no flash in the church, then none outdoors. Followed by a few on-camera 550ex photos in the reception. It was film in those days, so far more difficult for light, and digital SLR should be fine indoors now for a wedding
He spent £18k on the wedding (which was a lot in 1999), but for some reason got me and another amateur photographer mate to do the pics
Beware: hardest part is organising people for the group shots, unless you have ushers to do it for you, and you already have a game plan - few of us can give instructions quickly that work for large groups at a wedding without planning in advance, as I discovered.
Same here. Wonderful things. I also have an external power pack for using high speed sync and ganged speedlights outdoors - hss is hugely wasteful.
I really want a godox ad200 - about 3x the power of a speedlight, portable, s fit modifiers and both bare bulb and Fresnel heads. Still won't kill the sun, but it'll fill in and still be ultra portable and great for indoors work. Yum.
The only skill you have is framing the photo…but the timing, even if you exposed incorrectly, the files have so many latitude you can pull back incredible amount of information.
Then you have a silent shutter, like truly silent, the EVF has no black out meaning you don't get that split second blackout when the mirror flips up. No one knows you are taking the photo, by the time they did, even if they did, you would have taken about 40 or 60 shots….in silence.
I shot some video with my 5DVI, with the model walking towards me, like a catwalk then when she hit a mark she stop and walk away. I pressed the shutter and start recording, the camera then tracks her face all the way, adjusting focus at F/2.0 towards me and all the way back. All automatic.
Indeed. The key for me is making shots most people can't - that means off camera flash, reflectors, modifiers and gels.
It astounds me how few people use gels - I love adding colour to lights, whether it's a couple of ctos to make a low light shot a moody blue with a warmly lit surface, or even adding greens and purples to "dirty" the clean flash. You can get some really natural looking photos by using wacky colours to imply place.
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Invest in a diffuser for it though, at least you won't get any harsh shadows then.
Get a set of decent batteries (or preferably two, they're guaranteed to always run out at the crucial moment): Eneloops are very good.
Camera mounted flash isn't ideal. Try and get it off camera if possible: at the very least use it side-mounted with a bracket.
Have a play around with it before the wedding and learn how to use the functions, especially power reduction. You rarely need full power flash in daylight, it's really just to add fill light.
Bump up the ISO on the camera if you can't get a decent fstop and/or shutter speed.
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum