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My first wedding
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Did you read the first post in this thread? I'm guessing, not.
Right, I think I should write something here. Sorry for being silent for so long, I was not very well, I was on holiday, I was busy. All the usual excuses 
The wedding went, I think, fairly well. Daz was a star and helped me a lot. I had no idea how to herd people and pose them for various pictures. He was doing most of this job and I just followed him with my camera and took pictures. Thanks again, Daz!
The one thing I learned the hard way from this wedding, the thing that makes wedding photography quite different from any other type of photography I experienced so far is that you don't have time to think. Everything is going so fast! People are posing and I have 5 seconds to look for light, set my exposure, set the composition and fire a few shots.
This gets even more complicated when you have a flash or even a few remote flashes. These remotes did not like co-operating with me. The Nikon CLS system did not work at all, even indoors. Either not fired remotes at all, or over/under exposed shots terribly. It was surprising to me, as I used it for a studio-type portrait photography before and it worked well. I guess when you move away from the remote more that a couple of meters, it struggles. I switch to YN662 receives triggered by YN662TX commander and this worked much better. I wish I could have an on-camera flash with YN662TX on!
It was a very long, exhausting, but fun day. I will probably never do it again, but please, don't let my experience discourage you, if you want to do your first wedding. I think we should try various things!
I will post some pictures very soon.
The wedding went, I think, fairly well. Daz was a star and helped me a lot. I had no idea how to herd people and pose them for various pictures. He was doing most of this job and I just followed him with my camera and took pictures. Thanks again, Daz!
The one thing I learned the hard way from this wedding, the thing that makes wedding photography quite different from any other type of photography I experienced so far is that you don't have time to think. Everything is going so fast! People are posing and I have 5 seconds to look for light, set my exposure, set the composition and fire a few shots.
This gets even more complicated when you have a flash or even a few remote flashes. These remotes did not like co-operating with me. The Nikon CLS system did not work at all, even indoors. Either not fired remotes at all, or over/under exposed shots terribly. It was surprising to me, as I used it for a studio-type portrait photography before and it worked well. I guess when you move away from the remote more that a couple of meters, it struggles. I switch to YN662 receives triggered by YN662TX commander and this worked much better. I wish I could have an on-camera flash with YN662TX on!
It was a very long, exhausting, but fun day. I will probably never do it again, but please, don't let my experience discourage you, if you want to do your first wedding. I think we should try various things!
I will post some pictures very soon.
Let's start with the piano shot, discussed here before. Here is the final result. I'm not entirely happy with the light, I used the on-camera flash directed up, to get a reflection from the ceiling. In the photo it looks a bit as if the flash was fired straight ahead. I'd prefer a side light. But as I said, there was no time to set up anything.
I struggled with this one a lot. In many picture the bride's face looks yellow - I'm guessing this is the effect of her makeup (which did not look yellow in real life), as her arms look fine. The groom, on the other hand looks red in half of the pictures. He does look a little bit like this, but photos exaggerate it a lot. I worked on this photo with Viveza - I locally brightened, desaturated and de-warmed both faces a little, but the colours are still there. If I try to desaturate them any more, they look pale. If I try to de-warm them any more, they look green.
I like the moment this picture captured, but not the colours. Any advice (apart from making this B&W)?
I like the moment this picture captured, but not the colours. Any advice (apart from making this B&W)?
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Just had to remove the car ......and the pole
The yellow face is probably from the yellow in the stained glass.....give them colour and B&W ...we often find if we just give a B&W they phone up and ask for the colour version ....
Looks like you have a happy Bride and Groom !!
The yellow face is probably from the yellow in the stained glass.....give them colour and B&W ...we often find if we just give a B&W they phone up and ask for the colour version ....
Looks like you have a happy Bride and Groom !!
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I quickly converted the RGB channels to CMY. It solves every skin problem there is, especially yellows. It does affect other colors but they can be brushed back in if needed. You can toy with the magenta and yellow channel to further fine-tune the skin.
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