wedding late afternoon: I was attending a wedding which was held outside on a patio with the sun going down with the bride and groom inside a veiled tent and the sun directly behind...

CJartist Loc: Ormond Beach

I was attending a wedding which was held outside on a patio with the sun going down with the bride and groom inside a veiled tent and the sun directly behind them. I would like to know what settings I ought to have used. It was really brutal for all viewing. Can someone please help with settings etc. Thank you

wedding shooting into the sun. settings were 1/250 F9.5 and iso 100

ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore

I'm going to guess that you did not have our meter set on Spot. I would have used spot metering here on the bride's face. That would have blown out the background a bit; but the focal point is the couple.

CJartist Loc: Ormond Beach

ebrunner wrote:

I'm going to guess that you did not have our meter set on Spot. I would have used spot metering here on the bride's face. That would have blown out the background a bit; but the focal point is the couple.

I did have it on spot metering.

Ceil Loc: St. Paul, MN

The photo is certainly well exposed for the light. If you had time to take a light meter reading off of one of the people, you could have done some bracketing, to give you choices. It also looks to melike if you angled the camera more to the right, took your reading off of the people, even if it made the background too bright, it would have worked. In post process you could have darken the background if needed.

I do not know enough about process to know if it is possible to lighten up the existing photograph to an acceptable quality. I certainly can understand wanting to capture the light coming through the curtains, it has such a romantic feel to it.

Ceil

CJartist Loc: Ormond Beach

Ceil wrote:

The photo is certainly well exposed for the light.... (show quote)

Ceil, I was sitting off on the right (sorry) side the pro photographer was in the middle of the isle with tears coming down his face from the sun, I was just an invitee taking some shots.
What if I had upped my iso to say 800 would that have helped?

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

I think flash would have been the answer Carole. 8-)

CJartist Loc: Ormond Beach

Bmac wrote:

I think flash would have been the answer Carole. 8-)

I thought of that but was not able to use flash as I was not the main photographer and the main one didn't use one either. Haven't seen his shots of the wedding. Thank you for taking the time to look and comment

Ceil Loc: St. Paul, MN

Given the circumstances under which you were shooting, you made the best of it. There is always "under perfect conditions and control of the shoot," feedback and then feedback based on the happenings of the moment.

If you could redo this under the same circumstances, you could increase the ISO, be sure the exposure is metering off of the shadowed area and then I would set your camera to automatic bracketing by one stop. At least that would increase your choices for getting an image that would work for you, especially when you are in the position of taking photographs on the fly.

Hope that helps, Ceil

CJartist Loc: Ormond Beach

Ceil wrote:

Given the circumstances under which you were shoot... (show quote)

Thank you Ceil, I will try the bracketing and increase my ISO next time this comes up. This is the first time that I've shot into sun with the people backlit.

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

Ceil wrote:

I do not know enough about process to know if it is possible to lighten up the existing photograph to an acceptable quality. Ceil

Carole,
Would you like me to lighten up the existing photo for you? :)

CJartist Loc: Ormond Beach

Bmac wrote:

Carole,
Would you like me to lighten up the existing photo for you? :)

Please and let me know what you've done?

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

Okay, basically I increased the ambiance of the image.....a lot, and also lightened the shadows. Sharpened a bit but all this has brought out noise galore. Denoised it some and then converted one to B&W. Cropped to a portrait orientation.

Maybe you can use it, but there are some real experts with editing in here so perhaps one of them might give it a crack for you. Beautiful bride by the way. :)

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

Were you a guest or the Photographer

CJartist Loc: Ormond Beach

Bmac wrote:

Okay, basically I increased the ambiance of the image.....a lot, and also lightened the shadows. Sharpened a bit but all this has brought out noise galore. Denoised it some and then converted one to B&W. Cropped to a portrait orientation.

Maybe you can use it, but there are some real experts with editing in here so perhaps one of them might give it a crack for you. Beautiful bride by the way. :)

Bmac, that is way way better than I did and yes she is a very pretty woman, it was a dual wedding and so this is the Hindu ceremony.

Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC

Bill Houghton, your photo recovery is masterful.