I agree. I hadn't looked at the pics. You did well. But autofocus shouldn't be a problem. When people are moving, you have to use continuous mode. But I find it's quite fast and accurate on the K10D. Paul On Sep 3, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Mark Cassino wrote:
> Jerome wrote: >> [impatient? scroll down for the link] > > Jeeesh, Jerome - after reading your commentary I was prepped for > botched > up wedding pictures from hell... These shots are great! Excellent eye, > excellent feel to them. A lot better than any wedding photos I've ever > taken. > > A few comments - > >> 1. My autofocus is WAY too slow. FYI, I shot with 2 K10D's, a sigma >> 70-200mm 2.8, 24-70mm 2.8, and the Pentax 12-24 lens. > > Did you try pre-focusing? Like when they are walking down the aisle, > just pre-focus to the 2nd or 3rd pew row back and shoot when they hit > that point. > > That won't help with candids and more spontaneous shots, though. > >> >> 2. ell, I don't know what happened from one day to the next, but all >> of my photos in the sanctuary came out with the worst reddish >> yellow hue. >> Example here: >> >> http://exposedfilm.net/wwsmith/yellow.jpg > > You obviously fixed that problem in the final images - is the lighting > consistent? A lot of large builing have a mix of light sources with > makes it almost impossible to get consistent color balance, though I'd > expect that the part of the church on TV would be consistent. Why not > shoot RAW? > >> 3. Probably the most important thing I messed up... I blew the >> exposure >> on all of the brides dress photos (d'oh!!). I think this is the one I >> would've got murdered for if I was the "real photographer". >> Absolutely no >> detail in her dress. Just a big white mass. > > A 'real' wedding photographer would never use the words "bride" and > "big > white mass" in the same paragraph... :-) > > >> 5. My flash recycle time was unbearable. > > What ISO and F stop where you using? > >> http://exposedfilm.net/wwsmith > > Like I said - great shots! > > - MCC > > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo, Michigan > www.markcassino.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
