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p.3 #1 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

monopod+580EXII+hong kong poppers+shoot through umbrella. Packs small, lights big.

Oct 10, 2008 at 07:53 PM

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p.3 #2 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

Love it John! Smoke and mirrors, lol.

Depending on if it's high noon, or inside, I'll use a large Deep Octa on a AcuteB 600R, or just a 580EX into an umbrella, or even the just the sun

Oct 11, 2008 at 12:02 AM

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p.3 #3 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

If I have to shoot inside and the light is bad or requires me to shoot with a low shutter speed (<125 @ no more than 400 ISO) I use a set of Quantum T5D's bounced off of a ceiling. If the cieling is to high or produces strange light, I put a softbox on both of them and point them at the group..

Small, portable, powerful and no plug wiring to haul around. I can pack an entire set up (already set up) in a light bag that is 48" long and can hold both units easily. Great investment... The first few wedding I did I rented the units to see how they would do and what the results would be.

The wedding I did a few weeks ago required me to shoot the formals with a bright backlight arched window with the sun set blasting through it.. When I shot for the sunset... the BG were black silhouettes and when I shot for the BG the sunset was blown out. The strobes lit the scene perfectly and I got the results I wanted. Would not have been able to pull that off without the strobes.

Also... I only use the strobes if I absolutely need to as they can drive guests crazy.....

Oct 11, 2008 at 02:46 AM

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I.

Could do you show us the result if possible ?

Thanks

Oct 11, 2008 at 05:09 AM

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p.3 #5 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

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Winman3, Its a common misconception that they run off of IR

It is not a common misconception; it's not a misconception of any sort -- it's a fact.

...but the st-e2's infra red beam is just for AF.

That's not correct.

The focus assist lamp emits visible light, and is located below the IR emitter on the front of the unit.

...I'm not sure how it works.

Then why are you posting about it? You should read the manual and understand the process first.

Here's a simple test: cover the front of the ST-E2 with several layers of black tape, then see if those flash units in other rooms fire.

BTW, here's how Canon says it works:

"Wireless Functions Transmission System
Infrared pulse

Transmission Range
Indoors: Approx. 12-15 m/39.4 - 49.2 ft; Outdoors: Approx. 8-10 m/ 26.2-32.8 ft "

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2012 © BrianO

Oct 12, 2008 at 09:25 AM

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p.3 #6 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

For those who uses studio lighting; 1. do you use an assistant? 2. do you set is up prior to the wedding?

Oct 12, 2008 at 10:38 AM

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p.3 #7 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

jeremy_clay wrote:
My winning smile.

for your lighting; do you use Colgate or something off the shelf?

Oct 12, 2008 at 10:39 AM

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p.3 #8 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

MIKE ben wrote:
For those who uses studio lighting; 1. do you use an assistant? 2. do you set is up prior to the wedding?

Assistant if it's windy for the brolly. If not, they're shooting mking of photos and candids. If I have my Don't Hassel the Hoff' shirt visible, they're on strict "JC" photo duty.

Oct 13, 2008 at 01:03 AM

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p.3 #9 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

BrianO wrote:
ozarkboy wrote:
Winman3, Its a common misconception that they run off of IR

It is not a common misconception; it's not a misconception of any sort -- it's a fact.

...but the st-e2's infra red beam is just for AF.

That's not correct.

The focus assist lamp emits visible light, and is located below the IR emitter on the front of the unit.

...I'm not sure how it works.

Then why are you posting about it? You should read the manual and understand the process first.

Here's a simple test: cover the front of the ST-E2 with several layers of black tape, then see if those flash units in other rooms fire.

BTW, here's how Canon says it works:

"Wireless Functions Transmission System
Infrared pulse

Transmission Range
Indoors: Approx. 12-15 m/39.4 - 49.2 ft; Outdoors: Approx. 8-10 m/ 26.2-32.8 ft "

Ahhh.. Well I stand corrected... Twice!

Oct 13, 2008 at 06:02 AM

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p.3 #10 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

I use my 1dIII 6400 ISO

, and the 50 1.2 or minolta 1.2, or the 85 1.2

Oct 13, 2008 at 06:05 AM

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p.3 #11 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

gabemc wrote:
the sun

So, you like photos of people squinting

Oct 14, 2008 at 07:14 PM

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p.3 #12 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

the sun is my daylight balanced light source, very portable, and I use a great "cloud" style diffuser !!!!!

Oct 14, 2008 at 08:03 PM

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MIKE ben wrote:
For those who uses studio lighting; 1. do you use an assistant? 2. do you set is up prior to the wedding?

Any time I use portable lighting I always use and assistant too!

Dec 19, 2008 at 05:11 AM

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p.3 #14 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

patrickphoto wrote:
the sun is my daylight balanced light source, very portable, and I use a great "cloud" style diffuser !!!!!

+ 1

I love cloud diffuser. The best.

Dec 19, 2008 at 06:23 AM

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p.3 #15 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

ozarkboy wrote:
Also, In direct sunlight, I usually leave the heavy equipment in the car and just throw on a good diffuser, like the Fong light sphere, to eliminate the shadows in the face.

Good diffuser & Fong should not go together in a sentence, ever. Why would you want to throw on a diffuser for outdoor with the sun?

Dec 19, 2008 at 07:02 AM

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p.3 #16 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

1. Enough light/DOF for any size group.
2. Fast recycling of strobes vs. battery-powered flashes means less waiting, faster shooting. (This wouldn't be worth it if I only had to take a few.)
3. Even if using speedlites, I'd still have stands....so I just have a little bigger stands--not a big diff., IMO.
4. Two vagabonds makes everything as self-contained and portable as the speedlites...just heavier.
5. Predictable color, minimal post-processing.

Which is why I stopped using flashlights when shooting formals away back when I changed over to digital and had to do my own processing. I needed shot to shot consistency and more power.

Outdoors I currently use an onboard flash with GF (it makes a difference close up though for group shots it just sucks up power), as soon as the new Radio Poppers ship to Europe I'll be able to have a reliable off camera light as main and using ratios have the on camera just as fill. Been looking forward to that for a while.

Dec 19, 2008 at 09:31 AM

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p.3 #17 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

Most of my formals are limited to 20 minutes so I gave up on bringing in much in the way of lights. Just 2 580 flash units and good photoshop skills.
Around my area they want you out fast!

Dec 19, 2008 at 04:35 PM

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p.3 #18 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

I used to bring 2 AB800's and 2 AB400's, lightstands, battery, umbrellas/softboxes.. it got to the point that I couldn't carry everything in one trip. How much crap do we need!?!?

So I got efficient.. I've already got 580's with me.. why not use'em? 2 double-fold umbrellas (which I don't use anymore.. I just use the omnibounces), PW's and battery packs. Here's a junk shot of the setup..

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It takes 5 min to set up where the AB fun took 20 to set up. And another 20 to take down. These work just fine for me.. I went from bringing a suitcase to a really small bag.

Dec 19, 2008 at 04:50 PM

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p.3 #19 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

Quantum Qflashes, relatively quick to set up with the Norman "Umbrella boxes":

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Dec 19, 2008 at 08:48 PM

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p.3 #20 · What do you use to light for Wedding Formals?

All Natural!!! I hate the way flash takes away from the subject. Use a reflector

Dec 19, 2008 at 09:13 PM

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