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Re: Barn wedding reception lighting setup ideas


You're lucky that the bride/groom are ok with lights as most are adamant to not use flash for the ceremony. I would certainly soften the lights and put one on each side (behind the first few rows and off to the side) facing the ceremony at a 45 degree or less and use an on camera flash to fill the center if needed. Ideally, I think the stand height should be 7-8 feet. Keep the power on the lower side to be less distracting and turn up the ISO on your R6. It's really clean up to 6400. If I was shooting the ceremony this way, I'd use two 27 inch Elinchrom deep Octa's with a 20 to 40 degree soft grid on both just for the ceremony with B10's set to around half power. Profoto also has a small 1.5x1.5 soft box w/grid that could work nicely if the venue was more intimate. The grids control spill and add contrast for more "pop". Plus, they're less distracting for the guests. We sometimes use bare Profoto B10's in the corners up on stands at either end for dance with the A1 set on the same channel if needed to light um up! We usually just use the A1(w/bounce) on camera with a wider FL and jump right in for a more edgy, club vibe using the shutter to control ambient.
I think the R6 is one of the best wedding cameras for high ISO. Plus, you can denoise in LR for the ceremony photos. However we needed at minimum, the M2 chip and 16gb of RAM for our Mac mini to edit them. Use the flicker control and sand bag anything on a boom with the sturdiest stand leg in-line w/ the boom! Keep it simple and use on camera flash as those giving speeches and toasts don't often stand in one place, but tend to meander around and that may not work with static lighting. Same for first dances too!


Jul 17, 2024 at 09:14 AM
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Re: Barn wedding reception lighting setup ideas


You're lucky that the bride/groom are ok with lights as most are adamant to not use flash for the ceremony. I would certainly soften the lights and put one on each side (behind the first few rows and off to the side) facing the ceremony at a 45 degree or less and use an on camera flash to fill the center if needed. Ideally, I think the stand height should be 7-8 feet. Keep the power on the lower side to be less distracting and turn up the ISO on your R6. It's really clean up to 6400. If I was shooting the ceremony this way, I'd use two 27 inch Elinchrom deep Octa's with a 20 to 40 degree soft grid on both just for the ceremony with B10's set to around half power. Profoto also has a small 1.5x1.5 soft box w/grid that could work nicely if the venue was more intimate. The grids control spill and add contrast for more "pop". Plus, they're less distracting for the guests. We sometimes use bare Profoto B10's in the corners up on stands at either end for dance with the A1 set on the same channel if needed to light um up! We usually just use the A1(w/bounce) on camera with a wider FL and jump right in for a more edgy, club vibe using the shutter to control ambient.
I think the R6 is one of the best wedding cameras for high ISO. Plus, you can denoise in LR for the ceremony photos. However we needed at minimum, the M2 chip and 16gb of RAM for our Mac mini to edit them. Use the flicker control and sand bag anything on a boom with the sturdiest stand leg in-line w/ the boomers.! Keep it simple and use on camera flash as those giving speeches and toasts don't often stand in one place, but tend to meander around and that may not work with static lighting. Same for first dances too!


Jul 17, 2024 at 09:13 AM
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Re: Barn wedding reception lighting setup ideas


You're lucky that the bride/groom are ok with lights as most are adamant to not use flash for the ceremony. I would certainly soften the lights and put one on each side (behind the first few rows and off to the side) facing the ceremony at a 45 degree or less and use an on camera flash to fill the center if needed. Ideally, I think the stand height should be 7-8 feet. Keep the power on the lower side to be less distracting and turn up the ISO on your R6. It's really clean up to 6400. If I was shooting the ceremony this way, I'd use two 27 inch Elinchrom deep Octa's with a 20 to 40 degree soft grid on both just for the ceremony with B10's set to around half power. Profoto also has a small 1.5x1.5 soft box w/grid that could work nicely if the venue was more intimate. The grids control spill and add contrast for more "pop". Plus, they're less distracting for the guests. We sometimes use bare Profoto B10's in the corners up on stands at either end for dance with the A1 set on the same channel if needed to light um up! We usually just use the A1(w/bounce) on camera with a wider FL and jump right in for a more edgy, club vibe using the shutter to control ambient.
I think the R6 is one of the best wedding cameras for high ISO. Plus, you can denoise in LR for the ceremony photos. However we needed at minimum, the M2 chip and 16gb of RAM for our Mac mini to edit them. Use the flicker control and sand bag anything on a boom! Keep it simple and use on camera flash as those giving speeches and toasts don't often stand in one place, but tend to meander around and that may not work with static lighting. Same for first dances too!


Jul 17, 2024 at 06:00 AM





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