Wedding Composition technique question.

rickp

I attended a wedding this weekend. Of course I tried to watch the photographer a little to pick up on anything I could.

One setting that got me curious was the shot of the bride walking down the isle with her father. I believe he was using a 1D series and what looked like a 70-200 lens with no flash. At this point the church had dim lighting, actually i would say it was warm dim lighting.

So my question is, how could he compose a shot of the bride walking down the isle towards him with dim lighting and no flash and still have a shutter speed high enough for it to be a sharp image, especially when there's movement involved?

thanks
R.

angevin1

ISO plain and Simple. It is one of two key reasons I can think of to use a Pro body. The other being AF function.

rickp

Thank's for the replay guys. That was my first thought, high ISO, but at those settings you guys don't find that that ISO give you WAY to much noise?? I HATE noise.
Then when I get rid of it, the image gets soft.
I'll have to wait until we get the pictures around the family to see what was the result but again that was my thought.

zoomer

Well that isn't the combination most experienced wedding photographers would use.
He may have wanted to use the 200 and work his way down to the 70 as they got closer. Probably had IS on the lens.
Using a camera like the D3s would allow you to do this. Not sure what the Canon equivalent is.

angevin1

zoomer wrote: »

Well that isn't the combination most experienced wedding photographers would use.
He may have wanted to use the 200 and work his way down to the 70 as they got closer. Probably had IS on the lens.
Using a camera like the D3s would allow you to do this. Not sure what the Canon equivalent is.

I assume you're talkin lens and not AF/ISO.

Canon-Speak from and AF standpoint, then the 1D***s Series. But that 5Dmk2 will def get there in High ISO, but nothing like the D3S. I found my D700 just fine the last ceremony I shot. Just had to bump the ISO a bit: 6400.

Svennie

In a church with 100mm, VR (IS in Canon land), ISO 6400 and f/5.3 you still can have shutter speed of 1/80s. If you open up to f/2.8 you can go even faster than that. Noise, at least with a Nikon D700, is hardly noticeably. The next photo is from my trip to Denmark, no processing (sooc):
http://svenwarris.smugmug.com/Travel-and-Street-Scenes/City-of-Copenhagen/18840129_DSsVmz#1459981464_WdJJ7pr-XL-LB