Paula and Mark Cross’s Wedding

June 21, 2008 | Filed Under photo 

I got the call on a Monday for a wedding job on a Wednesday, and had the couple’s files prepped by the Friday. The wedding went very quickly and we only had a half hour to shoot at the house, about a 10 minute ceremony followed by 20 minutes of mingling at the chapel, and then spent the rest of the time shooting at the restaurant, Sopra.

I employed some wireless strobe shooting at the house and later at Sopra. Finished with 317 shots (After deletions) plus another hundred or so in black and white and alternate processed images.

Shots like these at the house were done with an SB600 and a shoot-thru umbrella…

You might notice that the first shot has been processed a little strangely. It’s not an HDR image, though the way I process the shot certainly makes it look similar to a Photomatix file. Something notably missing from the image are the halos that are ever-present in HDR processed shots, which I’m not a fan of. The way I process the shots keeps haloing to a minimum.

I mostly shot with available light at the chapel, not because I was anti-flash or anything, but because the ceremony only lasted 5 minutes when we were all told (happy couple included) that it would last about 20 minutes. I didn’t have time to set up a wireless gelled flash or anything! Mostly shot with a 50mm F1.8 with no flash and an 18-55mm at F3.5 with an SB600 bouncing off the white walls.

Lastly, here are a few shots from the restaurant. In the main area I had two flashes in two corners (not a total cross-light setup as the flashes weren’t pointing towards eachother). The room was walled in extremely dark colors so it was either set up the flashes wirelessly or use a straight-on flash on the camera as bouncing the light would’ve been nigh impossible. In the dining room I had one flash at the far end of the table firing towards the couple, and another right behind Paula, the bride, to make her light up. Walls were mirrored.

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