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Hi all,
I enjoy my photography, and have built up something of a reputation in my social circles for it, to the point that a friend has just asked me to cover her wedding.
Happily, I'm to be a jumped-up guest - I'll have sway as the 'Official Photographer' and license to take the first shots and order people about and stuff, but thankfully I've, er ... 'suggested' ... that I do more candid work as opposed to formal - thus I will be mainly using my 50mm, and thought perhaps my 75-300mm zoom.
However, for the more formal shots, I will be using my Tamron 10-24mm ultrawide, I would think, and since it's in March, will be doing a significant amount of shots indoors, so will use my flash gun, which I would think will be top-mounted (My flash gun is in no way clever - the most advanced thing about it is that it's got a wireless trigger function. It just switches on, and fires when I shoot - the head rotates through 90 degrees from vertical to horizontal).
I have a hard time with flash - I find it quite difficult to control, and wondered if anyone had any simple advice for using it (I'm not the sharpest tool at the picnic) - particularly in reference to aperture and speed - the Tam goes down to f3.5/4, and I don't really want to be shooting at less than 1/80th. I'm shooting on a Canon 450d, which gives me a maximum ISO of 1600, but I'm reluctant to go down that far as it does get very grainy. I can't afford to buy any more gear at the moment - much as I'd like to!
Do people tend to stick on one aperture and speed and then just fire away, or are you constantly fiddling? What is the best technique? I'll need to account for moving about quickly as well, I would think.
Your thoughts and advice would be appreciated.
I enjoy my photography, and have built up something of a reputation in my social circles for it, to the point that a friend has just asked me to cover her wedding.
Happily, I'm to be a jumped-up guest - I'll have sway as the 'Official Photographer' and license to take the first shots and order people about and stuff, but thankfully I've, er ... 'suggested' ... that I do more candid work as opposed to formal - thus I will be mainly using my 50mm, and thought perhaps my 75-300mm zoom.
However, for the more formal shots, I will be using my Tamron 10-24mm ultrawide, I would think, and since it's in March, will be doing a significant amount of shots indoors, so will use my flash gun, which I would think will be top-mounted (My flash gun is in no way clever - the most advanced thing about it is that it's got a wireless trigger function. It just switches on, and fires when I shoot - the head rotates through 90 degrees from vertical to horizontal).
I have a hard time with flash - I find it quite difficult to control, and wondered if anyone had any simple advice for using it (I'm not the sharpest tool at the picnic) - particularly in reference to aperture and speed - the Tam goes down to f3.5/4, and I don't really want to be shooting at less than 1/80th. I'm shooting on a Canon 450d, which gives me a maximum ISO of 1600, but I'm reluctant to go down that far as it does get very grainy. I can't afford to buy any more gear at the moment - much as I'd like to!
Do people tend to stick on one aperture and speed and then just fire away, or are you constantly fiddling? What is the best technique? I'll need to account for moving about quickly as well, I would think.
Your thoughts and advice would be appreciated.