Wedding Photography Challenge
In Botswana a lot of weddings are done under a tent, and is one of the worst photographer/cameraman nightmares. If you do not have with you the proper light and modifiers you are pretty much at the mercy of the one flash, your creativity/experience, and the hope that one cloud will blind the sun for few seconds. But what if your “tent” is on high speed, is rocking hard and simply the sun wont hide? You want that clouds, you want that reflection in the water, the bride dress details, and even the waves to create a sense of action………then 50% of the work is editing.
The difference in the photo above is about 18 stops of light, and no camera in the world will resolve that , even an ARRI Alexa have about 15 stops only. EXIF ISO 400,F 7.1, 28mm, +2EV manual Flash, 1/200S.
This photo on the stopwatch took seven and a half minutes to edit, since was a quick edit are some small imperfections but most of the people won’t notice.
Why I let them there? Simple I prefer to spend the time on the couple photos, action shots, and not on a group photo what most probably will never be printed the size of a wall.
It all comes down to logic and business sense. Over 4 days we took over 11000.00 photos from 4 cameras…ouch. Imagine the tremendous amount of work just to sort them in batches. If I was to do all of them on “quick edit” mode at 7.5 min/photo , quick calculation 58 days working regular 8 hours/day. Obviously you cherry pic the best shots with the client and create a final product of 400-600 shots over 4 days.
Now who can guess the editing process and how I manage to finish in only 7.5 minutes ?
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