Few personal wedding photos + advice on using flashgun

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Thought I hadn't contributed anything to the forum in a while so here are a few photos I've taken at the last two wedding I have been to. Both of them were my friends' so was just shooting for my benefit and to share with our mutual friends. I've received positive feedback from my friends, which makes it more worthwhile.

Both times I was using my D90, Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 (most of the time), 50mm f/1.8 (for details), 50-150 f/2.8 (barely) and Yongnuo 465 flashgun (for dance floor). Shooting RAW, Aperture Priority, processed in GIMP. Just got LR4 yesterday though.

I'm finding it really hard to get to grips with getting the correct exposure when using my flashgun. I usually judge it from reviewing the image and the histogram, but more often than not, even though I am down to ISO 400, it seems to be down to luck or the image is over/underexposed and I have to recover a lot in PP, which makes the whole image appear noisy and ruining them, as below. I usually have the flashgun aimed up + bounce card and shoot on ETTL. Any tips on how to improve? Got Bryan Peterson's Flash Photography book but not got round to reading it yet.


Sam and Adam's wedding by *SM*, on Flickr


Sam and Adam's wedding by *SM*, on Flickr


Sam and Adam's wedding by *SM*, on Flickr


Sam and Adam's wedding by *SM*, on Flickr


Dan and Joanna's wedding by *SM*, on Flickr


Dan and Joanna's wedding by *SM*, on Flickr

Next contribution should be photos from Dubai from March but not had time to sort those photos yet.
 
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I don't have the knowledge to advise you in such matters but lovely pictures I think the first set have a really nice tone to them (colourwise I mean).
 
Not a bad effort but 7, 8 &n 9 have other people in shot- would have been better off without them in my opinion

The groom feeding the bride has a chap almost in between them :eek: Guy with the drink has a DJ almost in is glass!!!!

wider aperture could have thrown them out of focus a tad


Les :D
 
I would concentrate more on composing the pics better at this stage, flash is never that easy for the majority of us in difficult lighting situations.
 
Thank you. With being just a guest, it's not appropriate to tell people to get out of the way and in order not to appear sad and unsociable, I only shoot every now and then so people do get in the way. When the official photographer is around, I do get out of his/her way because I know I'm not going to be welcome in the shot.

Also been told on another forum I should have gone for a wider aperture.

But points noted; will try to be a bit more aware.
 
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