 Colin |
Wedding Help ... Please! I will be doing a wedding with a Canon D60 and was wondering if anyone has used one for a wedding and can offer me some advice regarding white balance, using Canon 420ex flash, focus mode, camera settings and generally any help or advice please. Thanking you in advance.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Use white balance for flash because many flashes have a slight blue tint. And the material that wedding dresses are made of tend to look blue when you shoot with flash, especially straight on. I haven't used a Canon 420, but whether or not you use it on auto or manual, beware of the common problem of flash in a large dark room (dance hall, ball room, convention room): the flash shooting too much in order to try and light a dark background, thus making the people in front that you're shooting poof out to mostly white ghost. You'll have to use auto on the flash at a lower f/stop number than what your lens is actually at, or you can switch to manual on the flash and go by the distance you are away form people. And if you move closer or farther away, keep adjusting power output of the flash, or the f/stop of your lens accordingly.
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John A. Lind |
Colin, Gregory mentions one of the hazards in large reception halls ... light dissipation and blowing out foreground. I try to fill the viewfinder to at least 2/3 to 3/4 of it with the subject to keep this from happening ... even if it's a full length of the "first dance" I'll shoot several pulled in tight ... 1/3rd or 2/3rd body shots ... that show their faces well ... and a couple full length that leave only a little at top and bottom above/below the couple. Flash Power: Your 420EX flash has a GN=100 for 35mm focal length (ISO 100 in feet) which is more than plenty at home, but is very marginal for wedding work at longer distances (can be twice as far as in your living room) in bigger spaces that don't contain the light. I recommend setting the camera at ISO 400; you're going to be in trouble with inadequate flash power at a lower ISO. You need a bit of "overkill" with flash horsepower too ... otherwise you'll be waiting an eternity for it to recycle ... upward of 7.5 seconds from alkalines if it's having to "full dump" all the time. You can shorten this to about half that if you use rechargeable NiMH cells which can put out much more current to recycle the flash faster (get a 1-hour charger and at least two sets of cells, better yet three). I'm suspecting this is your first wedding (???). If so, you might be interested in my "Survival Guide" here:
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Colin |
A big thanks to Greg and John for your advice
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