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Images => Critique => Topic started by: elsa hoffmann on July 06, 2015, 20:04:24
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I am SO not a wedding photographer - but I do one wedding a year to remind myself why I don't do them.
I manage to get the "not-so wedding" weddings - either casual or gay or weird weddings.
This was a second wedding of friends, (yes I do have friends) more an event than a wedding.
I did manage to do some "formal" photos though - just so everything is not just stock stuff event party pics.
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#1 is awesome
she is a looker !
nice balance of ambient and flash
#2 ... hmm, are all those their kids ?
#3 ... flash light a bit hard ?
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Isnt she just gorgeous.... thats why I wanted to shoot the wedding - to have a good looking bride - nevermind the jeans :)
Only one girl is his - the rest belongs to family. Goodness alone knows who the upside down one belongs to.
Flash may very well be too strong. Considering what I know of using flash - its damn good LOL
And one of my flashed went weird on me - no clue what happened to it - weird thing on the back screen. cant even explain it -
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Never mind the technicalities, nor the jeans 8), these look awesome. They are relaxed and obviously in love.
Well done!!
This reminds me why i shouldn't do any weddings :P :P :P
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Great job Elsa, I can see why the fella looks so happy :)
Seriously, they are very flattering images, and they make a great looking couple, the smiles are obviously very real
and the images look very natural.
I'd bet you wouldn't mind doing more like these if you had the opportunity!
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Thanks guys
Oatsie - you are right - if every wedding had such good looking people...
Thing is - if you want to do weddings - you need a portfolio - a wedding portfolio.
And trust me if I say that if you dont have good looking people in your wedding portfolio - you dont sell.
This couple would have been perfect for a white wedding portfolio.
Both are mid 40's
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Isnt she just gorgeous.... thats why I wanted to shoot the wedding - to have a good looking bride - nevermind the jeans :)
Only one girl is his - the rest belongs to family. Goodness alone knows who the upside down one belongs to.
Flash may very well be too strong. Considering what I know of using flash - its damn good LOL
And one of my flashed went weird on me - no clue what happened to it - weird thing on the back screen. cant even explain it -
nikon or off-brand flash ? doesn't really matter I had both quit on me - it hurts much more when it's a nikon, more expensive and easier to use than the off-brand flashes
Jeans ? what Jeans? I noticed her eyes and smile
did you tell her to really grab him in #3 ?
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Armando - the flash is still working - but the screen at the back looks fried - even though one can still read the numbers.
I told them nothing - they were just a couple full of joy, but I do have a picture where she grabbed him like a true woman should grab a real man ;D ;D ;D ;D
okey - no asking more questions about that subject :P
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I hate ceremony. It seems that too much of my life has been sucked up by ceremony. Jeans at a wedding ... Good for them! But for you, Ms. Hoffmann ... IMHO, too much flash. The first is ... mmmh ... okay, but the other photos say "Hey, I used a flash." I know you can do better. But maybe I'm being too critical. Possibly, the cause of the 'too much flash' is simply the reflection off her teeth. The flash/camera won't compensate for a 1EV reflective smile. :D
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Gary yes - and since I know f*xkall about flash - it is what it is. I keep thinking I must put the flash on half power or something and then when I try to (of course right when I need to shoot) it doesnt want to change mode or what.
So yes - that is my weak point - a huge weak point I am sure.
Thank you so much for commenting. I do appreciate it.
And to everyone else - I will make a point of learning how to do this - maybe Bjørn can kick my ass and help me get it better when he is here
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I hate flash also ... because I don't use it well ... I don't use it well because I hate it ... I hate it because I don't use it well ... et cetera.
When I have to use flash, I try to us it as a fill. In your lighting situation (above), I would thing that fill would be all you needed. For fill just slap the camera into Aperture Priority and meter as usual. Fini
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Okey - why would Aperture Priority work better and do I still have to put the flash on M half power?
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Okey - why would Aperture Priority work better and do I still have to put the flash on M half power?
"A" mode is designed for fill flash. The flash, if set on auto, should output just enough light to fill shadows but not exceed the camera/meter settings. Caveat, I've never shot a Nikon digital camera ... my only real digital flash experience is with Canon ... I suspect that what works with Canon (at this low level), is similar to Nikon. The flash should be set on Auto (or equal).
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The nikon flash system is quite good IMO
I find it easy to use because it is TTL or manual
in TTL mode dial in FLASH EV compensation and results are great , hard to tell flash was used, also available when the flash is remote , it works in any mode PASM
it can be used in any shooting speed and it still works, although power gets limited
I usually expose for ambient light in manual mode, and fill in with flash in TTL mode
I can open a separate thread and provide examples , if that helps
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Thanks Gary :)
Armando - please do! - or continue here - wherever is good for me
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here is the thread about flash usage
http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=673.0 (http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=673.0)
Cheers
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It's easy to see that they had a great time.
This also reminds me that I have promised to take some photos at some friends wedding in a few months and my knowledge of flash is about as good as yours, if not worse...I'm signing up for Armando's crash flash course immediately! ;D
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You go Jørgen :)
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Very lively images!
You say you are so not a wedding photogrepher possibly because you don't like the order of ceremony which is a great cliche. Wedding photography is important for sure, and you have a solid technique to do that, but your artistic mind keeps you from doing that...
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Thank you Akira
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Elsa, like I mentioned in the topic started by Armando these were my default flash settings:
- Manual exposure to control the background (try first without the flash)
- Flash on TTL to let the camera determine subject exposure
- Flash at second curtain
- Starting point with flash exposure compensation was usually -1.67EV to make things blend a little bit
So in essence you control the background exposure and let the flash figure out the subject exposure based on subject distance (this was what the D in AF-D was for), light reflection, etc.
The minus 1,67EV flash compensation was my starting point to tone the flash a bit down and was easily fine tuned with cams that have a flash compensation button, never fully got the hang to the SB800 menus because I rarely used a flash (moved to a SB400 later for the just in case situations).