 Juliette` Colpa-Thomas |
Shooting Inside a Dark Environment I recently photographed a wedding. I did not use my flash unit. I used 800 color print film. I believe I used an f/stop of f22, shutter 1/30. I don't know what I was thinking but I got a lot of blurred photos while the wedding processing was making their way down the aisle. What should I have done differently? Should I have just shot the church shots in Automatic mode?
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BetterPhoto Member |
Juliette- I am not a wedding photographer but have done commercial advertising photography for 25 years. I would not use F/22. You need a shutter speed of at least 1/125 if you are shooting the people walking up the aisle to stop the movement, no matter the f/stop. I also think most wedding shooters use a flash. But if you use 1/125 at f/5.6, or f/4, you will have a sharp wedding couple. Slow shutter speeds mean blurry pictures. Charlie Borland www.borlandphoto.com
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Juliette` Colpa-Thomas |
Thanks, Charlie. I wanted to get the back of the church in sharp focus so I thought I'd use f/22. But you are right, of course, about the slow shutter speed and blurry pictures. Thanks again.
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R.M. Fusco |
Did you use a tripod at all? Basic rule of thumb is no handholding the camera for SS slower than 1/125. I too am a commercial photographer, so most of my subjects are still. Regards, Annie
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
800 film, f/22 at 1/30 is a mighty bright church.
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Mary Lyn Wilson |
When shooting in a church it is not objectionable to use flash during the processional or the recessional. During the ceramony is when you want to not be noticed. Use 800 ASA, as wide open as your lens will go, and dead on focus of the subject on a tripod. This works if the light is going to be constant. Allow yourself enough time to get to the church early, then you can go up on the alter and measure the light in different areas, mainly where the bride and groom are going to be standing. If there are windows in the church and the day is shifting between cloudy and bright sunshine then one has to meter and keep changing with the flow of sunshine. We go to rehearsals so that we know who is going to be standing where, what type of lights are going to be on, and what the church's rules are for flash.
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