{"id":11409,"date":"2012-08-08T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T16:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=11409"},"modified":"2020-06-13T19:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T23:25:13","slug":"a-wedding-in-central-park-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/a-wedding-in-central-park-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"A wedding in Central Park, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A wedding in Central Park, New York<\/h1>\n

A groom holding up the softbox for me … as you may well guess, there’s a story here.\u00a0Alvin and Lucia are from the UK, but decided to get married in Central Park.\u00a0<\/span>Of course, there’s a story here too.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Lucia told me their story<\/a>, and how it took a meandering course until this point, where\u00a0they ended up getting married in New York, even though they are from the UK.<\/p>\n

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Central Park elopement wedding photos<\/a><\/h2>\n

Alvin is an avid follower of the Tangents blog, and decided he’d like to have me photograph their wedding ceremony at Wagners Cove in Central Park.\u00a0Since it would be a very intimate little ceremony with just the two of them, they asked me if I’d like to sign the wedding documents as the witness. Of course! I was hugely flattered already that they’d chosen me to be their photographer, and being the witness would be an honor indeed.<\/p>\n

I knew that for the portrait session in the Park afterwards, my life would be much easier (and the photographs look better), if I had off-camera lighting with me. But I didn’t want to invite an assistant along that would be a stranger in such a small group. So I asked my daughter, Janine, to assist me. Good idea, because Alvin already knew who she was from my posts here. His first words to her when we met at the hotel before-hand, was, “How was your\u00a0trip to Amsterdam<\/a>?”<\/p>\n

The photo at the top is when Janine was asked to sign as second witness, and Alvin offered to hold the softbox up!\u00a0The rest of the photos here is a selection of my favorite images on the day.\u00a0In the spirit of the Tangents blog being more techie-oriented, there’s mention of the camera settings and such, as well as the lighting.<\/p>\n

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camera settings: 1\/250 @ f\/5.6 @ 800 ISO
\noff-camera flash with softbox; controlled as manual flash
\nNikon 24-70mm f\/2.8G<\/a>\u00a0 @ 28mm<\/p>\n

The ceremony at the edge of the pond was under this gazebo. That would place Alvin and Lucia in deep shade against the brighter lit background. Trouble. Therefore I quickly assembled the Lastolite softbox<\/a>. I wanted consistent flash exposure, so I set the flash (via the PocketWizard TT5 units), to be manual flash. I asked Janine to keep to a specific distance from them, even when I indicated she had to move to another point. So even when I had the light come from my left or right side, it would be the same exposure.<\/p>\n

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Here is the comparison photo without the additional lighting.<\/p>\n

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So you may well think it is odd to have an off-camera softbox at this event, but the lighting looks good!<\/p>\n

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