On Jun 30, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote: > Don't know which of these is K-5 or K-X.
K-5 are LRC... K-x are IMGP.... > You know the equipment you have and you made the most of it. If the other > 1100+ are like these you did very well. Thank you. > Shooting weddings is fun, isn't it? For some values of fun. > > 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. That's sort of what I thought I had done. Checking, it was on auto, center five, but I just didn't have time to mess with it during the ceremony. > > 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. ; >] There was no rush. It was interesting being the only person in the car that didn't speak Russian, and a couple of them didn't have much more English than I had Russian. > > -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/ >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
