Traditional Orthdox Wedding

[selig1656]

P1050887 edited by Raymond Friedman, on Flickr
P1050976 by Raymond Friedman, on Flickr
P1060024 edited by Raymond Friedman, on Flickr

[pschlute]

I love the third one....it really captures the spirit of the occasion.

[meehow]

I've never done an orthodox wedding, seems very interesting to watch and eventful from the photographers perspective!

[selig1656]

Tobil ill provide some more captures thank you comments.

[William W]

Hello Raymond,

I looked at many of your photos in Flickr: you have an eye for capturing peoples' candid moments - especially children were well captured in your portfolio.

Regarding the Wedding Images above, it occurs to me that you were in dimly lit surrounds and not allowed (or chose not) to use Flash.

This resulted in some captures at very slow shutter speeds, displaying Camera Movement Blur and/or Subject Movement Blur, which detracts from those images.

In these situations, consider bumping the ISO to allow a faster Shutter Speed.

Reviews of your camera indicate reasonable performance at ISO3200 and ISO6400 - I advise using these faster speeds for the conditions that you faced.

Additionally, your zoom lenses (both of them) are Variable Maximum Aperture Zoom Lenses - this means that at the wider focal length, the lens will be able to achieve its fastest Aperture: which is actually a good situation to exploit when making indoor candid portraiture at an event and using only available light.

The point here is that you can shoot wide and crop later in Post Production: doing this allows one to concentrate more on capturing the moment (i.e. Shutter Release TIMING) and less about Framing the Shot.

WW