Candle lit wedding photography?
If you were a Nikon shooter with a D90... What would you do to make a dim situation work? What lenses, flash modes, flash etc ...
If you were a Nikon shooter with a D90… What would you do to make a dim situation work? What lenses, flash modes, flash etc
You obviously need the fastest lens you can get you hands on… the faster the better. A tripod is a very good thing. The highest ISO you are comfortable with, and possibly higher. Subjects that understand these need to be *still* shots, or there will be blurred movement.
It is possible to use flash in such a shot, but difficult to pull off so that you don’t see the flash being used. It has to be low power and indirect, just enough to bring up the ambient light level without being obvious. TTL flash is out of the question, you need manual control. I would start at the lowest power setting and move up 1 notch at a time as necessary. It doesn’t take much most of the time, bouncing the flash off a white ceiling or into a white umbrella high in a corner. I bounce the flash backwards, not towards the subjects. It isn’t supposed to look like you used a flash at all.
I also find a remote release good for these shots, as i can see what the subjects are doing much better without having to look through a dim viewfinder in already dim light. I frame the shot as normal, then get into a position where I can see when to take the shot, which is just as important as how.
High ISO. Fastest lens (mine is f/1.4) Tripod. Probably a star filter for a couple, perhaps a soft focus filter as well.
Afterward, I would stage a few shots with a gelled flash at a lower ISO.
Been there, done it, but with film. I have not shot a candlelight wedding since going digital..
Ouch, i wouldn’t like this. Do as above.
If your images come out noisy you could use noise reduction software (i use noiseware pro) and you can also smooth the skins with this.
Good luck
i would definetly be using a tripod i would have my f/ set at 4.5 iso at 3200 and a single flash with a low flash compensation coming from underneath i would also do a negative exposure compensation