Yesterday's wedding shoot.

ethan · 3 Feb 2019 at 19:14

A bit trial by fire. Loads of kids rushing around. Guests reluctant to spend any time outside due to the cold. A number of armchair photography critics and only two rooms in which to do a shoot mainly in the dark. A number of technical difficulties, a bit of flash blur and a little lack of experience on my part.

Can anybody explain why I was still getting a number of blurred images at 500th of a second at f2.8- etc on a dance floor using a Godox v60 II from ten feet away?

ethan · 3 Feb 2019 at 19:31

Thanks Raymond. Lucky for me everything else was ok

ethan · 4 Feb 2019 at 01:32

I'll remember that. Fantastic photos. I have a lot to learn.

ethan · 4 Feb 2019 at 10:37

I found I was getting about a stop and a half too much flash with ittl/ettl set to highlight weighted so I tried adjusting it by increasing the shutter. The camera was set to auto iso. It was quite frantic trying to adjust appropriately amidst the action. Tbh I might have been better using the Fuji as I'm used to manual flash on that as opposed to the D750. I only had the D750 for a few days so really didn't have all that much time to familiarise myself with it.

ethan · 4 Feb 2019 at 20:03

iamtheoneneo said:
https://neilvn.com/tangents/flash-photography-techniques/off-camera-flash/
His book by the way (Direction and Quality of Light) is pretty much an essential read imo.

Plenty of good advice. I'll be sure to read and purchase it. I was somewhat mystified by the amount of conflicting advice from photographers on the Internet which didn't help. There was someone swearing by auto iso because it frees up time to concentrate on everything else Tbh I' ve had better success switching to manual and adjusting accordingly (at previous events) .