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I’ve had a few people ask me about this image which I posted as the opening image of a slideshow of a recent wedding I photographed. The question was how I lit this, and if I had used flash.\u00a0 The answer is perhaps a very reassuring one .. I only used the light from the sparklers, and no flash was used.<\/p>\n
What helped here was that there were numerous sparklers, giving a fairly even light over the bridal party.\u00a0 The light from the sparklers is very short-lived, so you have to be all set to grab as many frames as you can when this opportunity arises.<\/p>\n
With only the light from the sparklers and no flash at all, it immediately becomes obvious that I had to have used a high ISO and a fast aperture.<\/p>\n
For that image (and the others in the sequence), I was at 1\/80th @ f1.8 @ 1600, with my WB set to Incandescent.\u00a0 (I still had to adjust the overly warm image as part of my raw workflow.)\u00a0 I used the Canon 24mm f1.4 lens<\/a> for the series of images of the bridal party here.\u00a0 The relatively high shutter speed enabled me to not lose too many images to blur as the\u00a0people moved around. My exposure mode was manual, and I adjusted my exposure every few frames by checking my LCD preview.<\/p>\n As simple as all that.<\/p>\n For anyone who is hampered by a slow zoom lens, I would strongly recommend looking at some of the affordable fast primes such as the Canon 50mm f1.4<\/a> and Canon 85mm f1.8<\/a>, or the Nikon 50mm f1.4<\/a> and Nikon 85mm f1.8<\/a>\u00a0– sometimes you just need that fast lens where a slow lens (even with vibration reduction \/ stabilization) won’t suffice.\u00a0 These fast primes will allow you to take photos in much lower light, and even handhold in low light when necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" photographing sparklers I’ve had a few people ask me about this image which I posted as the opening image of a slideshow of a recent wedding I photographed. The question was how I lit this, and if I had used flash.\u00a0 The answer is perhaps a very reassuring one .. I only used the light Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[8860,5982,9162,2924,1698,1337,9159,2238,1330,9154,1120,9164,9160,9156],"class_list":{"0":"post-154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technique","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50283,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/50283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}