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Wedding photography – Dealing with the videographer’s light

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Wedding photography - Dealing with the videographer's light

With wedding receptions, we're most often working within a very warm spectrum. There are tungsten (incandescent) lights all around. (**) There is candle light. There might be twinkling lights as decoration ... and there is the videographer's light. The videographer's light will be Tungsten balanced, even if it is an LED video light that they are using. (***) So while a wedding photographer might be using a lot of flash to dominate the lighting .. and settle for Cloudy or Flash WB, there is often a conflict of interest  Read more inside...

favorite image from the weekend

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Often seen in wedding portfolios, this is always a fun setup to do with groomsmen - the Reservoir Dogs style walk towards the camera. A great group of guys, good light with a nice background, and you have the ingredients for a photograph that the couple will just love. I fired off a rapid series of shots to make sure I have at least one image where the motion and expression of everyone worked.  I didn't need flash, and it would've been difficult to set up properly with a large group of people walking towards the camera.  So the light depended entirely on the shot being set up like this,  Read more inside...