Nice pics. I'm sure your friends will be pleased. Paul On Jun 30, 2012, at 9:07 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
> > 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. -- 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.
