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August 1, 2009:
Chris and Emily Woods' Wedding
This wedding was held at the Leaven's Ranch near Moorpark, California.
The area is a great setting for photography. The orange ranch is
surrounded by giant eucalyptus trees and has many nice areas available
for photography.
My understanding is, that this was the first wedding held at this
location since the mid forties. I hope they have many more
weddings here.
Unlike my other weddings, I was not able to meet face-to-face with the
Bride and Groom, but I was able to correspond with the Bride to get her
ideas and preferences in mind before I started. I was also able to
meet up with the couple the night before for the wedding rehearsal.
This allowed me to get some fun, informal shots as they prepared.
It also allowed time to see the grounds and come up with a game plan for
setting up the photo shoot.
For this round I decided to add a Nikon D90 with a 17-105mm zoom lens.
I need this type of camera for action shots. Unfortunately, my
Mamiya AFD is not well suited for fast action, which is fine with me
since I really got it for portrait and landscape photography. The
Mamiya AFD is a good camera at weddings for the posed editorial style
photos and family group photos. So I decided to rent the Nikon D90
from Canoga Camera to see how it would perform. I had high
expectations after reading reviews from other wedding photographers.
As it turned out, this camera with the zoom lens was an excellent
choice. Between the two cameras, I was able to get highly detailed
posed photos as well as action and candid shots with the other camera.
I think the addition of this camera would complete my camera equipment
needs (almost).
I arrived the night before the wedding for the wedding rehearsal.
This gave me a chance to check out the area and try some candid shots
and come up with a game plan for the next day.
The main challenge, I could see, was that the reception was going to be
held in an outdoor setting. So no bounce flash for me. I would have to
make do with direct flash when the daylight was gone. The Nikon
D90 would be very useful to take natural light photos when the light was
low. I set the ISO to 300 for the Nikon, and that worked nicely.
Although there is some noticeable grain at that speed, but I think it
was a reasonable amount considering I did a lot of indoor shots using
only natural light.
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