There are different styles of wedding photography - basic dividing line is flash and 5.6 or wide open natural light at whatever ISO is needed. You sound like you prefer the second option (i like it too and it's also the hot thing right now)
Proper exposure makes a difference, noise wise. Proper use of flash can help some too - add some light but don't look like you did. Fast primes can help - the 1.8 you got for example. IS lense can help to a degree as well.
A camera with low noise is the solution if you find yourself shooting at higher ISO all the time. You will get used to the noise and not see it (for the most part). Clients don't know unless it's really bad. I don't mind the noise so much as the sharpness, or lack there of. My 30D I tried to keep below 1000, but the 40D can make useable 8x10 prints at ISO3200! I'd never shoot portraits or formals at that of course, but the bouguet toss, sure. It's VERY unlikely they'd want big prints of that.
My concern is the album - a 2 page spread in a 10x10 or 11x15 album is a pretty big print!
I have the top version of neatimage and it will batch images, and pick the right 'pattern' (brain fart there) for the ISO of the image - meaning you can mix different ISO images in a directory and hit 'run' and go to bed and wake up with them all cleaned up.
This image has been worked, but was shot at ISO1600 on my 30D with a sigma lens. I don't want to have to work up many images (no time to do it) but for a few it's not too bad. Practice! Nothing teaches you photoshop faster than trying to fix you mistakes (don't ask me how i know that!)
Better glass will get you good images wide open (and isn't that why you buy fast glass - to shoot wide open?) and it focuses faster (at least canon's does). and generally better color/contrast or at least consistent from lens to lens (if all by they same manufacturer).
Most natural light photogs shoot canon, and shoot 5D or 1D mk3 (or the 1D mk2 n) as they have great high-ISO performance and low light focus. The 40D now has these features too.
Granted these are websize, but they are UNTOUCHED and some were shot as JPGs (i shoot RAW but wanted to test what the camera can do in JPG)
All these are ISO 3200, canon 40D. The first is 17-55 2.8 IS and the rest are 70-200 2.8 IS. These are 2.8 lenses - don't be afraid to shoot wide open!
Message edited by author 2007-10-12 19:40:51.
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