Don't know which of these is K-5 or K-X. You know the equipment you
have and you made the most of it. If the other 1100+ are like these you
did very well. Shooting weddings is fun, isn't it?
When I use the K-X I just set the focus spot to the center so I've got a
pretty good idea what the camera is focusing on, then re-compose.
Looking forward to Big Sur and the Russian Bride's Maids. If you'd had
time, you could have gone north and shown them the Russian River. ; >]
-p
On 6/30/2012 4:31 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
Three weeks ago, a friend asked if I could videotape his wedding, and get some photos.
We had met a few months ago at the memorial for a mutual friend, the one in "One
eyed Jack" in the annual. I said I would, warned him that I'd never photographed a
wedding, apart from one when I was in high school, and refused offers of money.
Before the ceremony, I got some greycard shots, put the 16-50 on the K-5 and the 77 on
the K-x. I set up my camcorder at what seemed like a reasonable location, and once
things got started realized there wasn't much more I could do with the camcorder. In
retrospect, I should have asked John's widow if I could borrow his 5DmkII, I also
probably should have set the camcorder up in a back corner of the alter so it would have
seen the faces of the couple rather than the face of Father Jeff. If I were to do
weddings for a living, I'd invest in a few of those "go" video cameras, which
are small enough that they could be strategically placed in bouquets to unobtrusively get
much better angles of the ceremony.
Other things that I learned:
The K-x is not the camera for shooting weddings, there is no way of telling
what it's focusing on. I lost several fairly important shots that way. The
K-5 is close to good enough, but not quite there.
The 16-50 is a bit too wide for shooting the ceremony.
The wedding couple had even less experience getting married than I had
photographing weddings.
The ceremony started without my getting any warning.
The long and the short of it, I got some decent photos, but weddings are not
the sort of photography that I do my best at. I do much better at the method
of successive approximations, trying things until I get them right, rather than
fast paced, don't miss the moment, even without warning, photography.
After the ceremony and reception, the groom asked the best man and I to kill some time with the bridesmaids,
two from Colorado, one from St. Petersburg, so that the happy couple could "have a little bit of time
alone". The initial thought was touristy stuff in Monterey, but we ended up heading down to Big Sur
instead. I spent my afternoon in "Big Sur with three Russian bridesmaids" sounds a lot more
interesting than "I spent the afternoon in the back seat of another guys Prius while we schlepped some
tourists around".
It's going to be a while until I get through all 1200 or so shots from
yesterday. Apart from the obligatory ceremony, reception and posed photos,
there are actually a few things in Big Sur worth taking pictures of. I did a
quick pass through the pictures from the ceremony so that they won't have to
wait two weeks until things settle down for me again.
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157630360497840/
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