Hey I'm Vanessa joy here with AdoramaTV
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Hey I'm Vanessa Joy here with AdoramaTV
and today I'm gonna walk you through my main
reception lighting and camera settings.
So this isn't going to be about
reception details, you can click here for
the video all about how I light those.
This is going to be all the settings and
lighting, that I use throughout the reception.
Number one:
when somebody is
walking in... so anytime I go into a
reception I think, I know I'm gonna have
a higher ISO, and I try to only have a
flash on camera, and bounce.
So let's start there, I'm turning on my flash and
using TTL.
I never direct flash... it's not
very flattering for the type of
photography I'm looking for.
Instead I bounce flash not gonna tell you all
about that, because you can click here,
and see the video about how to bounce
Flash.
flash will freeze your subject but
you still have ambient light in the room.
That will make your subject worry if
your shutter speed is too slow, or
they're moving too fast.
Next up is toast...
I'm gonna be demonstrating toast to you,
but I shoot them all pretty much the
same, because I want to really focus in
on my subjects.
I'm going lower on my
aperture so that I have more shallow
depth of field, and just blur everything
else that's happening around them.
A lot of times I like to shoot through things,
so if I don't move Tyreese at all,
and I come down, and I want to shoot kind of
through the chair, through the glasses...
This looks okay, but it kind of looks a
little bit hazy.
It doesn't look that great, and it's because
I'm bouncing this flash, and the light is
coming back and it's hitting the chair,
and it's hitting the glasses and everything.
I'm shooting through... instead of just
hitting my subject.
So now we're gonna use some
off-camera flash.
I do have a grid on the front...
so this grid is going to allow me
to really point the light at my subject.
now the beauty of this is.. I'm still on
TTL, so that light is gonna determine how
much power needs to come out of here.
I'm not changing any of my settings at this point.
You can have a daytime wedding
guys.. and make it look like it's night.
Perfect, we're going to add one more fun
thing to this.
So in addition to the B1
that we set up, I'm using a B10 here,
but I'm gonna put color on it, as if I were
at a wedding reception where they had
beautiful uplighting.
Actually not gonna point it
at him I'm gonna be pointing it to kind
of just graze the side of him, because I
want this light to potentially hit the
wall as well. So it looks like this room
is up lit, same settings as before, nice.
We got the off-camera flash going, and
that's a little bit better, but it needs
a little bit more contrast.
Alright this is better now, it's a nice
nighttime reception, and we added the kicker.
This looks pretty good, it's like I gave the
whole room up lighting.
I think my clients will love it.
You know sometimes your clients love it,
and you don't have
to worry about it so much.
One more thing, we have to do dancing photos.
Not much changes, I wanted a little bit
higher of a shutter speed, so I freeze the
motion, I need higher ISO the darker it is in
the room, and my aperture is staying
somewhere between 2.2 and 3.5
just so that I can maintain some depth
of field.
Give it all a try on your next wedding
and let me know how it goes.
Let me know what other questions that
you have for a reception.
I look at the comments down
here guys, I will respond to them as best I can.
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