A wedding (Warning pic heavy)

[Stickbow Hunter]

I thought I would post something a little different in the Photography forum. Our son Jay (Jeffrey Jnr) was married a few weekends ago to a lovely young lady named Taryn. They wanted no one else but me to do their wedding photography so I did and I must say it was very special to do so. A note for Grahame A; all photos taken with my new Canon 5DII that Jude bought me not long before the wedding. It sure is great using full frame again. Our oldest granddaughter Gracie was flower girl so I included a photo of her.

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[Stickbow Hunter]

A few more. It was good to make use of some different lighting in a couple of these.

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[GrahameA]

Hi Jeff

Great Photos.

I take it you like the new camera. Very "Schmick". You now carry a large number of Cards in your pocket and am about to get a computer with lots of processing power.

Still don't like weddings.

[Stickbow Hunter]

The computer was updated last Christmas when our other one died. Yep I use 8 gig cards now. I took 20.4 gig of photos as I was shooting RAW + jpeg. A RAW file averages 25mb. Yeah weddings can be stressful but fun at the same time.

Jeff

[TomMcDonald]

Nice photos Jeff. great affect with the wedding band creating a loveheart.

[aroadik]

Hi, Jeff, is that the son that shot the '98 longbow muster at Tiaro ? if so, man !!! has he grown up, congratulations and a very handsome couple. Regards Peter.

[Hilly]

Well Jeff that was a job well done as usuall like everything you do to perfection ..
wish them both all the best from Linda & myself thanks Jeff
Hilly

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Well-done, Jeff. A happy day, no doubt!

[Coach]

Wow a thread with some hot chicks in it ,, is this allowed ????

Just joking Jeff ,, some great pics in there for sure I thought the wedding ring on the book was pretty clever ,, well done

[Stickbow Hunter]

Thanks for your kind comments fellas.

Peter, Yes that is the same son. He is 25 now and sure has grown and towers over his Ol' Man.

Jeff

[Gringa Bows]

Great photo's Jeff,you did a top job, how many photo's would you have taken for the day...................Rod

[Stickbow Hunter]

I took about 650 Rod so now they just have to pick which ones they want to blow up etc.

Jeff

[Gringa Bows]

650 bet your trigger finger was sore .........................Rod

[ivorycollector]

Excellent photography Jeff. Well done!

[GrahameA]

Morning Rod

650 bet your trigger finger was sore .........................Rod

That is quite normal. One of the corrolaries of the move to Digital is the number of photos that are shot.

The downside is that the photographer has to look at all of them, etc. and then there is the post processing. If you are covering a Sports event it is very easy to go past the 1000 mark in a day.

And since you keep all the files big external hard drives are the go and then there are the backups. (DVD's are not backups.) If you are doing at lot of photos you need to consider other backup solutions.

But it is not any worse than Photographers of old who had cabinets full of negatives - all of which was flammable.

[Gringa Bows]

Thanks for the imformation Grahame,i was just ribbing the old feller,thought he would have been to busy eating the wedding cake,to take that many photo's .............Rod

[Bill]

Jeff, I showed the wife of thirty five years and she thought that the pictures of the wedding were absolutely STUNNNIG, STUNNING they are absolutely STUNNING ...Bill

[Gringa Bows]

But seriosly Jeff you take a really profesional photo that new camera must be a beauty mate.......................Rod

[Stickbow Hunter]

Thanks for the encouraging comments once again fellas, it is appreciated. I enjoy taking photos and I was particularly pleased with how my lighting was with these. I can of course see things in some of the photos I would like to improve on but overall I am very happy with them. We learn as we go.

Grahame, you are right with regards back-up drives. I have three copies of my photos; one on the main computer and two on external hard drives. I had one of my external hard drives suddenly up and die a couple of weeks ago and that is why we should ALWAYS have back-ups. Post processing as you say is very time consuming but a neccessary part of shooting digital as you know. It is a huge learning curve.

Rod, That is the most photos I personally have ever taken at a wedding. My brother in-law used my back-up camera and only shot jpeg as he used it in Auto mode because he didn't know how to use it properly and he was really clicking away and took 1,350 shots. He has a good eye though and he did get some great shots as well. Yes, the new camera is great and I look forward to blowing up some of the photos as they should show a lot of detail.

Jeff

[Tuffcity]

WOW! Nice work! You've got a good creative eye! Glad to see that *cough* Canon is working for you.

RC

[Stickbow Hunter]

Thanks for the comments fellas. RC, yes the CANON is working great!!!

Jeff

[cacciatore]

Maybe a little bit late,but congrats.You know I live so far it takes quite a bit to arrive

[Stickbow Hunter]

Thank you cacciatore. You know, there was a young couple who came all the way from Italy just for the wedding. They were relatives of Taryn. Her maiden name was Dalpozzo. My son went with Taryn and her family and Grandfather to Italy two years ago for Christmas. Taryn's grandfather's brothers and sisters still live in Italy. They really enjoyed seeing the country and hope to go back again one day.

Jeff