KillRamsey
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- Location
- Hood River, OR
- Name
- Kyle
The setup: A very good friend was getting married 2,500 miles away, on a budget. He asked me and his cousin to both shoot it. Cousin has some decent experience, has good gear (Canon 6D), and is a great guy to boot (we've hung out a few times). My XT1 isn't back from repairs yet, so it would be just the new XE3 for me. Wedding was to be indoors, at about an hour before dusk.
I brought the Rokinon 12, the 23 f2, and the 56 1.2. Cousin wasn’t around until just before the ceremony, so only I got shots of the rehearsal and festivities leading up t it.
Thoughts:
1. It got DARK in there, quick. Think “6400, f1.2, and 1/80”.
2. Even when it was still daylight out, the ceremony happened with their backs to enormous windows, so things were seldom awesomely lit.
3. I shot RAW+FINE for the ceremony and blasted through a 16 gig card like it was a pack of spearmint gum. And I am (ahem) NOT a “spray-n-pray” amateur, dammit. So I switched back to just FINE for afterwards, trusting my decisions.
4. The rehearsal and ceremony wound up about 1,500 shots on card, before any culls.
5. All edited, it wound up being 224 shots I sent them.
6. The XE3 did wonderfully. Really, really well. If I had any little quibbles with it, they were small enough that I've forgotten them now.
Some shots I liked, for whatever reason(s):
KBRY4312-SJP by gordopuggy, on Flickr
KBRY4504-SJP by gordopuggy, on Flickr
KBRY4683-SJ2P by gordopuggy, on Flickr
KBRY5017-SJ3P by gordopuggy, on Flickr
KBRY5071-SJ3P by gordopuggy, on Flickr
KBRY5453-SJ4P by gordopuggy, on Flickr
I brought the Rokinon 12, the 23 f2, and the 56 1.2. Cousin wasn’t around until just before the ceremony, so only I got shots of the rehearsal and festivities leading up t it.
Thoughts:
1. It got DARK in there, quick. Think “6400, f1.2, and 1/80”.
2. Even when it was still daylight out, the ceremony happened with their backs to enormous windows, so things were seldom awesomely lit.
3. I shot RAW+FINE for the ceremony and blasted through a 16 gig card like it was a pack of spearmint gum. And I am (ahem) NOT a “spray-n-pray” amateur, dammit. So I switched back to just FINE for afterwards, trusting my decisions.
4. The rehearsal and ceremony wound up about 1,500 shots on card, before any culls.
5. All edited, it wound up being 224 shots I sent them.
6. The XE3 did wonderfully. Really, really well. If I had any little quibbles with it, they were small enough that I've forgotten them now.
Some shots I liked, for whatever reason(s):