Comments on: lighting the wedding formals (part 1)

By: Jim Scarpaci

Jim Scarpaci — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:02:10 +0000

Neil your site is a treasure trove. I love the articles. I have a question about the bridal formal at the top of this post. What do you do when you encounter a church that has a marble wall or highly reflective surface behind the altar? How do you avoid the reflective glare from your umbrellas? Thanks again for sharing.

Jim

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Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:06:39 +0000

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By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:48:45 +0000

In the image at the top (and for the other family formals during this shoot), I only used the one 60″ umbrella and Q-flash.

No on-camera flash. None needed or wanted.

Neil vN

By: Alfredo Medina

Alfredo Medina — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:43:22 +0000

Hi Neil,
in the picture where you see the umbrella in the third pew row:
-How many umbrellas as this you placed in the church?
-As it appears that the light of the umbrella comes the bride and groom from behind, you use ON-CAMERA FLASH directly in front of the couple?

Best regards,
Alfredo

By: Neil vN

Neil vN — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:30:37 +0000

Dwayne ... fluorescent lights are notoriously difficult to work with. Their colour temperature varies with age, brand and type. Normally I resort to under-exposing the ambient, and letting the flash dominate. I do intend writing an article on using flash with fluorescent, but the one time I did set out to do that, the fluorescent lighting turned out to be really good! But this has been added to the list of future topics on the Tangents blog. Neil vN

By: Dwayne Zimmerman

Dwayne Zimmerman — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Neil,
I find myself working in places with florescent lighting a lot. It’s difficult to get good color tones. With the formals I can use studio lights and turn off the florescent lights. But during the ceremony I am using my D700 with the SB-900. Any suggestions as to how to get good WB using this equipment? This last week I used the Stoffen diffuser, pointed it at the ceiling but still got horrible color. My wife was able to salvage the images with Lt. II and CS3. Any suggestions?

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:19:56 +0000

Harry, when I am set up in the church, I usually have the lights in the 3rd pew row. So that’d make it about 5 – 6 meters. (approx 16-20 feet) Somewhere around there.

Neil vN

By: Harry Settle

Harry Settle — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:13:18 +0000

Neil, just bought your book, “On-Camera Flash”, and have been experimenting with the black foamie thing. Excellent.

My question here is something that most lighting experts forget to tell us. . . what is your flash to subject distance in your single and double, static, setup?

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:10:20 +0000

Hi there Brad … it’s a tendency that I have to check against continually. But the D3 is heavy, and it tends to sag in my grip after a day with it. ; )

Neil vN

By: brad

brad — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:15:30 +0000

Hi Neil..

Appreciate you putting yourself out there for comments and for passing on the knowledge.. but one thing I’d like to ask is if you would consider straighting your photos. Many of the examples posted are off. All of these on this page are tilted. Maybe a pet peeve of mine, but it’s one of the first things that I noticed..

brad