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Ex-Videographers - have a question for weddings

 

 


Postal Boy
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Jan 31, 2009, 7:10 PM

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For those of you that used to do video at weddings, but do some photography now, have you ever tried doing something similar with cameras as you do with video cameras, where you have preset exposure, preset focus, etc...with a set camera position on the altar, back of chapel, etc...have you ever tried doing the same type of thing with still cameras, and triggering them remotely with, say, a pocket wizard, so you could set up a camera on the bride, one on the groom, one at the back of the chapel, and maybe trigger them from your main camera in the balcony where you are camped?

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Shadow
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Feb 25, 2009, 3:21 PM

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I haven't. I would think it would be tricky if it were far away, we're probably talking about f2.8 or something with a shallow dof as either the flash won't reach or often there is a no-flash rule during the ceremony (at least here it is anyway).
I like the idea though, maybe for entrances - from a different angle?


Kenneth
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Mar 7, 2009, 10:09 AM

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Interesting idea, but I think you'd have a real hard time selling that to catholic priests. I don't think they would appreciate he clicking right next to them while they are conducting the ceremony.



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Postal Boy
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Mar 21, 2009, 4:04 PM

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Ah, but that's why you put it back a ways with a zoom...That should help with the DoF as well, since at 2.8, if you don't zoom too much, you can actually get a pretty decent DoF at 20 feet or so. Just use "cropping" in post to get the framing you want (and don't do any big blowups of it - they are album pics Wink)


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May 1, 2009, 12:15 AM

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I think the photos would look really bad.



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KevinShaw
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Oct 29, 2009, 3:27 PM

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Someone commented to me once that the hardest thing about wedding photography is capturing exactly the right moments. That would be tough to do with a remote still camera unless you fired off in "repeat" mode at several frames per second - at which point you might as well be shooting video!

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