Wedding Photography Gallery - Image 13

Canon EOS 5D - 80th/sec - F5.6 - ISO 250 - Manual - Natural

Most Jewish weddings can be fast paced and lots of fun, especially like in this image where the bride and groom are hoisted into the air on chairs after a serious bout of dancing to the "Hora".

Once again, I knew the shooting area would be pretty constant so I set the camera to manual, speedlight to auto (and bounced) and just fired away.

For some of these shots, it was difficult to get near the couple so I held the camera above my head and aimed in the general direction with a 24mm lens.

As I mentioned somewhere earlier, I keep one hand over the viewfinder when doing this as the light coming in otherwise can affect your metering for the flash. Cameras like the EOS 1D mk III have a switch for closing a shutter over the eyepiece for such situations...very handy.

Once again, a black and white conversion won the day and for me, adds a real contrast of happy people with quite sombre, moody lighting.

With fast paced weddings it is good to be prepared and know exactly what is going to happen. Then you can set your camera "ready to go" and just enjoy your work.

Lens 24-70 2.8 L at 24mm

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