Church and barn wedding.
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At least for wedding work, atmosphere, content and emotion are what I care about most. I could add a flash to reduce noise, but it would also change the atmosphere from how it really is. I may need to wait for my flash to recycle, and miss content (happens occasionally during dancing) and so on.
It's a compromise (as always), but I value allot of other factors above noise. In black & white, I'd be happy with a 200" ISO 12800 print. Yes the noise would be there but I like it, like I like the sound of crackling Vinyl over clean MP3 files sometimes.
I totally agree, if it was up to me all my clients have an awesome grainy black and white only album! I remember when I first started I'd try to expose everything perfectly as if it was in the studio, now I just go with it. Really dark room and loads of window light, silhouette it is! Pretty jealous of the shadow recovery from the latest Nikons!
I generally don't use flash at all until the first dance, and even then I never seem to be happy with it.
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Hi Sid
I don't use VSCO presets. I have tried them out of curiosity and some are kind of similar. According to Raymond & I agree as well, Kodak E100G is close to my processing. (use some fade to lift shadows etc though) unless you prefer a little more contrast.
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I sometimes use bounced on camera flash if I don't feel brave enough.
I don't use it, but I do think backlit flash can work really well. For times I need a little something to bolster the ambient, I'm tempted to use a flash on camera purely for AF assist, and as a commander to fire off a subtle backlight (with warm filter on).
The only problem is I move around allot so some of the pictures will have a nice backlight, and some would be bare direct flash. I would have to find a way to enable/disable them quickly on the fly.
Yeah I like the backlit look, and I know what you mean about moving around. I've just bought a full set of pocket wizards with the camera mounted controller. Not had chance to use it at a wedding yet but there are 3 groups on the controller and you can instantly flick to auto, manual or off for each individual group.
In theory it sounds like its going to be great.
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You need at least 3 off camera, one on camera as fill.
Place 3 flashes in the room so its a triangle to cover as much ground as possible.
