Slippy shoots a wedding, OMG! - DPChallenge Forums

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-120mm f/4G ED VR

10/03/2007 08:35:05 AM · #1

I shot a wedding for a friend this weekend. I'm quite overwhelmed by the number of shots I came away with. I think a large number are pretty good quality. Here are just a few, doing B&W so far. Have a bazillion to go.

I had a lot of fun, but admit I have to work on my teacher-voice to round people up. I have a feeling my preference is taking candids over posed shots.

I'm curiuos to know what other people think, as I haven't had any feedback. Am I on the right track, or should I run & hide?

Hehe, the Skip Rowland huddle shot, had to include that here. ;-)

andrewt

Nikon D810

10/03/2007 08:39:15 AM · #2

Looks great !!! definitely on the right track.

Man_Called_Horse

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

10/03/2007 08:46:39 AM · #3

Impressive.

liberty

Canon EOS-50D

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

10/03/2007 08:59:47 AM · #4

Great pictures

dwterry

Canon EOS-1D Mark III

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

10/03/2007 09:07:05 AM · #5

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

I had a lot of fun, but admit I have to work on my teacher-voice to round people up. I have a feeling my preference is taking candids over posed shots.

No kiddin'. And adults are SO uncooperative! The kids are generally better ... they're used to being told what to do. But adults? They think they know best. You simply *have* to sound like you're in charge or they won't do anything you say.

Plus, at the wedding, often you become the "announcer". Okay ... we're going to cut the cake now, everyone gather around! (well, you might want to be a little more creative in your invitation than that!)

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

I'm curiuos to know what other people think, as I haven't had any feedback. Am I on the right track, or should I run & hide?

LOOKIN' GREAT!!! No reason to hide. Love the B&W conversions (and I'm one that generally prefers color!). Keep 'em coming! :-)

pamelasue

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

10/03/2007 09:38:23 AM · #6

those are awesome ... great job!

10/03/2007 09:41:24 AM · #7

Thanks! :-)

Info for the kind PM I received...

I shot everything with my new 40D, in various modes. Sometimes Av (f/2.8 to f/5, depending), sometimes using Highlight Priority. Depending on the light, sometimes I used an external flash mounted on-camera with a Gary Fong Lightsphere. For the indoors stuff I used full manual with the flash & lightsphere. I kept it at f/2.8 and varied the ISO between 800 and 1600 as the sun went down outside. I varied the shutterspeed between 250 and 60 depending on how much ambient light I wanted, as there were a lot of nice lights and candles.

Though I brought a bag of lenses, the only lens I used all day was my 24-70 f/2.8L (except for the football huddle, where I used my wide-angle).

Never used my tripod or reflector, just wasn't time to do the set up shots I wanted to do.

The wedding was delayed, as the bride was late, and I got yelled at by the person who rents the property out. I was like, sheesh biotch, don't yell at me just because you stacked your weddings too closely and I'm carrying a bunch of camera gear. Then, for some reason the reception started half an hour early, so there wasn't time to do the fun shots I wanted to do. :-(

I did walk in on a bunch of naked bridesmaids, which was pretty funny, though all I saw was a silhouette. Unfortunately my camera was still in the bag. :-( I got a shot of the bride stuck in her dress, trying to get it on. It was funny at first, then disconcerting, then funny again when it was fixed.

My entire body was sore by the end of the day, and I slept most of the next day.

Makka

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

10/03/2007 09:49:49 AM · #8

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Thanks for the info here and well done on the pics. I left a couple of comments!

kellian

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

10/03/2007 10:03:45 AM · #9

LOL @ sleeping the whole next day. I realized that I wear myself out taking portraits. At first I thought I was coming down with a cold then I realized all my muscles were sore. It happens every time I do a long shoot. It's more strenuous than I realized.

Congrats on your first wedding. The pics look great. This looks like a success!

10/03/2007 10:19:09 AM · #10

Originally posted by kellian:

I spent the entire day with the bride, from hair & makeup at 10am until I was almost falling over dead sometime after 11pm. Sore legs, bum, & back (I guess I prefer low angles). Sore right shoulder & arm from the camera.

Surprisingly, my camera battery icon still showed full bars at the end of the night and ~1,000 clicks. I went through two sets of flash batteries, but never had to break out any new camera batteries. I used two Canon batteries in the grip all day.

I'm not sure what to do about all the photos. I've picked out about 200 essential shots, but that still seems like a lot. Beyond that, I have a lot of shots of wedding party with guests they asked me to take. I've picked 70 of my favs out of the 200 essentials. I suppose I'll PP those individually. The balance 130 maybe a batch. The remaining 800 I might just dump up to my SmugMug and let them have at-em as-is. Maybe the 5-day PP on sales.

I'm tired, I just want to take some shots of birds or something, hehe.

slide12345678

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

10/03/2007 10:22:09 AM · #11

did they pay you in red ribbons?

10/03/2007 10:26:29 AM · #12

Originally posted by slide12345678:

did they pay you in red ribbons?

Heh, red wine! :-O

dwterry

Canon EOS-1D Mark III

10/03/2007 10:54:10 AM · #13

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

I did walk in on a bunch of naked bridesmaids, which was pretty funny, though all I saw was a silhouette. Unfortunately my camera was still in the bag. :-(

I think there is a lesson to be learned here....................

(anyone remember the Scout motto???)

dwterry

Canon EOS-1D Mark III

10/03/2007 10:59:07 AM · #14

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

I'm not sure what to do about all the photos. I've picked out about 200 essential shots, but that still seems like a lot. Beyond that, I have a lot of shots of wedding party with guests they asked me to take. I've picked 70 of my favs out of the 200 essentials. I suppose I'll PP those individually. The balance 130 maybe a batch. The remaining 800 I might just dump up to my SmugMug and let them have at-em as-is. Maybe the 5-day PP on sales.

I post most of the candids I take that are 'worth anything at all' (i.e. there is a clear subject that is not obscured or out of focus). You never know what they are going to like or who is going to want them. I had pictures of a 2 year old that were purchased two years AFTER the wedding. I shudder to think why (he'd have to have changed a lot in those two years). My only guess is that something happened to him ... he died or something ... for the parents to want such pictures two years later.

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

I'm tired, I just want to take some shots of birds or something, hehe.

I definitely know that feeling! Sometimes I go somewhere with the family and *purposely* leave the camera behind. That's just so ... "not me". My only explanation? I've already taken two thousand pictures this week and one more would just do me in!

violinist123

Canon EOS-6D

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 ED

10/03/2007 11:27:32 AM · #15

Originally posted by dwterry:

Originally posted by Strikeslip:
I did walk in on a bunch of naked bridesmaids, which was pretty funny, though all I saw was a silhouette. Unfortunately my camera was still in the bag. :-(

I think there is a lesson to be learned here....................

(anyone remember the Scout motto???)

Yeah, "Slippy is a selfish, ill prepared hack".

BeeCee

Nikon D40

10/03/2007 12:30:39 PM · #16

Congrats, Slippy :D It's nice to see that you can actually take some pretty shots, and not just....cowpoop ;)

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

10/03/2007 12:38:59 PM · #17

You done great Slippy. Really nice work. I did my nephew's wedding a year ago, and only lens I used except a few WA was the Tammy 28-70mm, so we had the same experience.

Since when is the huddle shot Skip's, though? I did a huddle shot myself, even entered it in the Larson challenge. Do I predate Skip? Enquiring minds need to know...

R.

oOWonderBreadOo

Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM

10/03/2007 01:00:50 PM · #18

Run for the hills brides- Slippy's shooting a wedding!!! ;0P

They're really nice Slip! :0) I especially like the ring shot (the bokeh is so good on this one!) and the ceremony and the champagne pics! I wanna see some color tho!!! I loooove color!

hmmm.... next wedding ask for one million dollars! :0P

Originally posted by dwterry:

I definitely know that feeling! Sometimes I go somewhere with the family and *purposely* leave the camera behind.

It's truly sad, I do this all the time too :0(

taterbug

Nikon D300

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

10/03/2007 01:34:35 PM · #19

Slippy, I'm stunned! Those are really nice shots man!
(hmmm, I don't mean that like it sounds :-) , you know what I mean, right?hehehe) Definitely not in the typical vein of 'Slippy style', you know? ;-P I mean, yeah, where's the cowpoop, Man???? :-D

Honestly, that is really nice work, man. I think you may have something else to do when gold is down!

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

10/03/2007 04:28:26 PM · #20

Thanks everybody! :-)

fotomann_forever

10/03/2007 04:33:30 PM · #21

Originally posted by Strikeslip:

Originally posted by slide12345678:
did they pay you in red ribbons?

Heh, red wine! :-O

Sweet! Nice work slippy. :-) Proud of ya.

aliqui

Nikon D300s

10/05/2007 10:05:48 AM · #22

Firstly, the composition is nice.... but I must be the only one that think the black and white conversion looks flat. In several the whites seem more like a really, really light grey. There's not much tonal depth.

I played with 0462. Setting the blacks and whites in Curves and then bumping the Contrast by 5 made a huge difference in my eyes. Bump it by 10 and the bride starts to glow, but not so much that you lose the stitching detail in the dress.

I think you did well. I just don't like the post processing.

=)

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

10/05/2007 10:42:04 AM · #23

Originally posted by aliqui:

Thanks for taking a hard look like that, I'll re-look at the big files. I wonder if it's because I worked to create the print-sized files as best as possible, without clipping at either black or white ends; as opposed to the web-sized files, where I'm usually more exaggerated in clipping.

New one...

jpochard

Canon EOS-40D

10/05/2007 11:29:47 AM · #24

I really like the BW's you've posted. I left comments on all, as well as the color one.

Overall a very, very nice job on the one's I've seen. I hope you'll post a link to them all at some point.