Care to share what for?equipment is OK
but set iso to 400 to help conserve flash battery and recycling time
bring extra batteries and CF cards
buy new socks and easyon/easyoff shoes
good luck!
Regards,
Arto.
Care to share what for?equipment is OK
but set iso to 400 to help conserve flash battery and recycling time
bring extra batteries and CF cards
buy new socks and easyon/easyoff shoes
good luck!
Care to share what for?
Regards,
Arto.
a d70 on ISO 400 might be a bit dangerous unless u are shooting raw or is very competent at exposure. Leveling up will introduce noise.
Forget the 50mm. Why? It has a focal length of 75mm equi. YOu need an shutter of 1/80 to prevent shake. It's not very useful in most case because in low light, even with f1.8, it's hard to get 1/80.
The 18-70 is quite good. One very prolific AD photo i know uses this lens for years liao. Sb600 is more than enuff if u know how to use. Sb800 comes in when u need to fill an entire ballroom or stuff.
I suggest u try to rent a f2.8 from someone. When ur experience is lacking, it's better to have good equipment to allow u more leeway.
a d70 on ISO 400 might be a bit dangerous unless u are shooting raw or is very competent at exposure. Leveling up will introduce noise.
Forget the 50mm. Why? It has a focal length of 75mm equi. YOu need an shutter of 1/80 to prevent shake. It's not very useful in most case because in low light, even with f1.8, it's hard to get 1/80.
Wink wink I wonder why you are saying that at iso 400 on a d70 there is are problems that need you to shoot raw and to try to correct for underexposure. Both issues are not camera fault issues.The point on the 50mm for low light work while being beign so called technically correct it is operational wrong. If you know what you are doing - you can shot with a 50/1.8 in very low light at 1.8 or 2 at even 1 or 2 sec's. The point is you need to know what you are doing. There is nothing scared to say that you must shot 1/focal length to avoid bad camera holding - in the bad old days of film, there were people who are probably 70 to 80 years old new that could shot hand held up at speeds that the theory would say it sure to die - yet the pictures are clear sharp and well shake free - fluke hardly knowing the limitation and working around them is part of the learning process. Any ways not to forget there are iso setting above 400 - the camera can shoot up to 1600. But for our thread started - better to KISS - use a flash all the way, go avaible only if you can get 1/60 shutter speed and f stop of 5.6/4 - its not going to be artistic but you will unless you screw up on timing and composition - to get the shot in. Worse case go P mode or A mode - the camera is less likely to get it wrong than a greenie under pressure.
Care to share what for?
Regards,
Arto.
Thanks :sweatsm: .isn't it obvious?
when you go into the home, you need to remove your shoes
when you leave the home you need to put on your shoes
and the couple won't wait for you if you have boot laces to tie
so easy-on easy-off in 5 seconds
new socks - when you remove your shoes, you don't want people to see holes in your comfy old sock - yucky!
Great info :thumbsup: .also respect the occasion
dress for the occasion
i have seen photogs dressed too casually for the occasion
at least you need to be smart casual
and a little bit more formal for the dinner
if you look like a slob then ppl think you are a slob
if you look smart, then ppl think you are smart
want respect from others?
you need to respect yourself first
A collegue of mine requested me to take AD pics for his wedding as the main photog since he's a bit tight on the budget.
I think what you have is just fine. I second everything Ortega said.
You will need to sit down and go thru the day's program with your friend and determine at which particular point you want to take what particular shots (e.g. tea ceremony, march-in, table-shots etc...)
Arrive early and recce area if possible, look thru viewfinder/take test shots to see angle, lighting, etc...
Put P mode and use matrix metering with the flash angled straight-on. Let the i-TTL, matrix, balanced fill flash algorithm on the camera do its work and it should be fine. Since you self-proclaim to be not that experienced, DO NOT fiddle around bounch flash and what not, you DO NOT want to have severely underexposed shots of your friends big day, believe me...