So I had my first solo wedding after assisting last summer. Had the lights set up, metered and took the first test shot. Boom, black. Wait, what the...? Check again, black. Check again, black. Now the bride and groom are there ready for alter shots. Panic sets in, what do I do? Well, shoot away with the fastest lens in the bag and hope to recover in RAW. Yes, it works well enough, good thing I'm a graphic designer by day and know PS like the back of my hand. Idiot that I am I didn't know the rented lights like I should have, and it turns out that I should have set my 550 to manual to negate the eTTL. Lesson learned, won't let that happen again!!
Things go well with the ceremony, no problems to speak of. Next, I head outside to catch the bride and groom getting into the limo. Switch the camera settings, including ISO, metering and white balance. Nice, going smoothly now.
Head to a park for some shots of the bridal party, got some great candid's, as well as some nicely posed shots. Ok, things are still going good. Get back in the truck to head to the reception, wait...which camera did I use? Please tell me...damn!! Wrong camera!! I had used my second camera that was still set on the white balance in the church!! Somehow I managed to set the ISO and metering but not the WB. Everything's blue!! Well, I'm still in RAW and this can be fixed as well. I'm kicking myself and I'm a bit embarrassed right about now, but I can do this.
Reception goes great. A lot of candid's, I recovered quite nicely. Quite proud of myself actually. Finish up, head back out to the truck, had the camera bags on the tailgate, cleaning up and getting bags back in order, when thunk...thunk...smash!! My new 50mm f/1.8 is now in two pieces on the ground. AHHHHHHGGG!! Only had it about a month. Not worth fixing it because it only cost 75 bucks. But I liked that little bugger, guess I'll have to put down another 75 bucks to replace it. The kicker was I didn't even touch it all day, just took it out to clean the bag. Thankfully it was mine and not one of the rented lenses!!
Overall, not a bad shoot. I can't feel horrible about the alter shots as they are friends and they are only paying me cost for the shoot (which doesn't help with the busted lens), plus I reshot most of the posed shots outside to make sure I had coverage.
Long story short, here are a few shots of the post reception (only 1/4 of the way through converting the day from RAW). Please take a look and let me know what you think. I'm working with another photographer this summer and would like to learn as much as possible without wasting a lot of time.
Alex
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http://www.alexanderphotoservices.com
Things go well with the ceremony, no problems to speak of. Next, I head outside to catch the bride and groom getting into the limo. Switch the camera settings, including ISO, metering and white balance. Nice, going smoothly now.
Head to a park for some shots of the bridal party, got some great candid's, as well as some nicely posed shots. Ok, things are still going good. Get back in the truck to head to the reception, wait...which camera did I use? Please tell me...damn!! Wrong camera!! I had used my second camera that was still set on the white balance in the church!! Somehow I managed to set the ISO and metering but not the WB. Everything's blue!! Well, I'm still in RAW and this can be fixed as well. I'm kicking myself and I'm a bit embarrassed right about now, but I can do this.
Reception goes great. A lot of candid's, I recovered quite nicely. Quite proud of myself actually. Finish up, head back out to the truck, had the camera bags on the tailgate, cleaning up and getting bags back in order, when thunk...thunk...smash!! My new 50mm f/1.8 is now in two pieces on the ground. AHHHHHHGGG!! Only had it about a month. Not worth fixing it because it only cost 75 bucks. But I liked that little bugger, guess I'll have to put down another 75 bucks to replace it. The kicker was I didn't even touch it all day, just took it out to clean the bag. Thankfully it was mine and not one of the rented lenses!!
Overall, not a bad shoot. I can't feel horrible about the alter shots as they are friends and they are only paying me cost for the shoot (which doesn't help with the busted lens), plus I reshot most of the posed shots outside to make sure I had coverage.
Long story short, here are a few shots of the post reception (only 1/4 of the way through converting the day from RAW). Please take a look and let me know what you think. I'm working with another photographer this summer and would like to learn as much as possible without wasting a lot of time.
Alex
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http://www.alexanderphotoservices.com
I must say you have great photos on the website and the site's format is clean and easy to browse....!