Pals, im just curious, how exactly is the proper way of taking good photos of wedding march-in when all the lights is off with only spot light on them?
flash? super big aperture like 1.2? super high ISO?
need a piece of advise from y'all
lol..seen some really crappy words from some folks. Talk so much, but not saying anything useful
I use to shoot weddings and i hve this question many years back when i started
actually, it's very simple.
Depending on what u want, here's what you do
1. Couple bright and the rest dark.
Simply off ur flash, put to aperture mode and shot ( making sure exposure is for the bright light, ie, use center weighted metering or spot metering. If u are in average or evaluative, pic will be usually OVERexposed and might get blur=> ask yourselve why it's gonna be overexposed or blur...If u can find out the answer , u know photography basics better than a lot of the crappy folks here.)
2. Couple and audience all bright
This is usually more tricky and the pic effect usually not as good as 1.
Assuming u have a powerful flash, point flash towards ceiling, at manual mode and shoot.
Not advisable if ceiling is tall , dark coloured or if ur flash is weak.
3. Of course, intermediate are some other effects that require more skill. Eg , only shilleoute with only some glint of birghtness. Very nice for Black and white shots ( esp with entrace smoke). This depends a lot on experience to gauage the amt of compensation to dial in.
For couple march in, do not set to AF tracking and large aperture. Tat's another newbie mistake. Unless u happend to have a 1D of D3 kinda camera AF, most cameras cannot track ( esp moving TOWARDS u kind of motion which is very different from moving ACROSS kind of motion) very well in low light.
Set aperture to around F5.6 or at least F4. This gives a larger focal plane of fcous ( again, if u understand what this is, u know a lot more), off multi AF and use single spot. Best and effective way.