Wedding Photography Gallery - Image 27

Canon EOS 5D - 160th/sec - F5.6 - ISO 250 - Shutter Priority - Posed

This was taken at the same location as the previous image. The courtyard has a series of corridors above and around the main square which leads to all the hotel rooms.

When we were shooting these, the sun started to set and added an amazing glow on the colourful walls behind and set up a nice backdrop.

We whisked the bride and groom upstairs in the courtyard to make the most of this light whilst I shot from the square below.

If you know your area well, and you should have done a reccie visit at the same time one week before, you may well get a good idea of whether there will be a sunset or not.

Make a note of the time and work around it so that you have control of the couple at that point if possible, and you can get to your location in time.

I used Tv mode or "Shutter Priority" here for a good reason.

When light is failing and you are using aperture priority, your camera will, normally without you noticing, start to drop and slow the shutter speed automatically to allow more light in, depending on what aperture you have set.

I.e. you are on Aperture Priority and set at F8. You are getting 250th/sec shutter speed to start with but as the light fails you get f8 at 200th, f8 at 125th, f8 at 60th and so on.

If this starts to drop below the required minimum, and I was on the limit at 160th/sec (hand held at 190mm focal length) for this shot, you will start to get camera shake and lose those important shots.

Lens 70-200 2.8 L at 190mm

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