wedding photographs using a canon 60d with a 15 - 70 lense: forgive me if this comes over repeating myself but Ive been studying and learning the settings required Ill use auto iso and...

watersedge Loc: Bristol UK

forgive me if this comes over repeating myself but Ive been studying and learning the settings required

Ill use auto iso and auto focus 1 af spot and manual with Center-Weighted Average metering. ill probally go safe and useing a f8 or f10. This will guarentee most of the photo wil be in focus.
The shutter speeds i thought of using
walking down the aisle min 90
groups min 60
confetti shot min 200

would this work

Vietnam Vet

Based on just what you posted here you should probably pass on photographing the wedding

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Instead of single shot AF, use AI Servo. So, instead of focusing once and waiting, you'll have the camera constantly focusing (you have to turn off the beep confirmation). Practice before event, but you should find your sharp focus results in dynamic situations and moving people will be improved. Even more 'advanced' would be to also configure your 60D to 'back button focus', although BBF isn't required to be successful with AI Servo.

f/8 to f/10 would be 'safe' only in the brightest light, probably not the actually situation of the wedding. Given the shutter speeds references (have to be in shutter priority) along with auto-iso, set an upper ISO limit in the camera to ISO-3200.

You're probably going to get a lot of comments to be a spectator, not the photographer. Everyone has to have a first time.

manofhg Loc: Knoxville, TN

It depends on the lighting available and what ISO your camera can use and not have excessive grain. If you use a flash, that changes things. Also a flash can be your confetti motion stop. I know that with my camera, if I make sure that I expose to the right on the histogram, then I can use a pretty high ISO such that my shutter speed is high enough to cover for motion. Also, I generally don't use much higher than f5.6 unless I'm trying to get a large depth of field on something fairly close. If you are 5-10 feet away, f8 is excessive to get a full depth of field and also f8 really makes you jack up the ISO compared to f4 or 5.6.

I would generally use a slightly faster shutter speed for groups and walking down the aisle. Maybe 125 or 200. Group shots always contain a few that have someone looking the wrong way and/or eyes shut, so shoot several and fix them as needed in Photoshop.

Vietnam Vet

I just looked thru your portfolio and read many posts. Pass on photographing your daughters wedding and just go have fun. Take some pictures for her but don't be 'the photographer,' be the father of the bride.

BebuLamar

watersedge wrote:

forgive me if this comes over repeating myself but Ive been studying and learning the settings required

Ill use auto iso and auto focus 1 af spot and manual with Center-Weighted Average metering. ill probally go safe and useing a f8 or f10. This will guarentee most of the photo wil be in focus.
The shutter speeds i thought of using
walking down the aisle min 90
groups min 60
confetti shot min 200

would this work

I think you arrived at your settings thinking too much about the expose triangle and not about the exposure. You want f/8 to f/10 for good DOF. You want 1/90 for walking down the aisle to minimize motion. What do you think your ISO would be? My guess is around 12000 to 25000.

watersedge Loc: Bristol UK

unfortunately it was too late to get a pro photographer as I only had less than 2 months notice and photograpphers need to be booked a while in advance. all im after is practicle advice that will get me some reasonable shots.....im not attempting to be a pro wedding photographer

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

watersedge wrote:

unfortunately it was too late to get a pro photographer as I only had less than 2 months notice and photograpphers need to be booked a while in advance. all im after is practicle advice that will get me some reasonable shots.....im not attempting to be a pro wedding photographer

Go find an event or 'crowd' to go out and practice, preferably indoor or evening light, assuming this will be similar to the wedding. Don't wait for the actual event to begin practicing at being an event photographer. Practice at approaching people and having the camera configured exactly as needed to just quickly raise to your eye and shoot, with the AF point / group pre-set for the position of the people. There's nothing more annoying for everyone than to wait for the photographer to fiddle / focus with their camera, killing the candid nature of the image.

watersedge Loc: Bristol UK

i have been practising the last few weeks. im visitingb the registry office where its taking place this week.
i have ab idea on shutter speeds but i might have to bump up iso.
is there any good software out there that will remove noise.

watersedge Loc: Bristol UK

as itsd in registry office and not church shouldnt be too dark

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

watersedge wrote:

i have been practising the last few weeks. im visitingb the registry office where its taking place this week.
i have ab idea on shutter speeds but i might have to bump up iso.
is there any good software out there that will remove noise.

You visit the support section of the Canon website and download the current versions of the DPP software (v4 for RAW and v3 for JPEG). If you don't own anything currently, I'd start with the free software.

watersedge Loc: Bristol UK

ive downloaded that will it get rid of noise in photos

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

watersedge wrote:

forgive me if this comes over repeating myself but Ive been studying and learning the settings required

Ill use auto iso and auto focus 1 af spot and manual with Center-Weighted Average metering. ill probally go safe and useing a f8 or f10. This will guarentee most of the photo wil be in focus.
The shutter speeds i thought of using
walking down the aisle min 90
groups min 60
confetti shot min 200

would this work

How do you know you want everything in the photo to be in focus beforehand? It all depends on the situation and scene, no preset apertures! Never heard of a 15-70mm lens!

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

Vietnam Vet wrote:

Based on just what you posted here you should probably pass on photographing the wedding

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

watersedge wrote:

forgive me if this comes over repeating myself but Ive been studying and learning the settings required

Ill use auto iso and auto focus 1 af spot and manual with Center-Weighted Average metering. ill probally go safe and useing a f8 or f10. This will guarentee most of the photo wil be in focus.
The shutter speeds i thought of using
walking down the aisle min 90
groups min 60
confetti shot min 200

would this work

to the best of my knowledge nobody makes a 15-70 millimeter lens. What lens do you actually have?