We're hitting the tail end of another couple of weeks of post-wedding post-production. It feels good to be nearing the end of our last wedding of the 2011 season with deliverables on the verge of complete.
This was our first wedding on the Oregon coast and the environmental conditions were less than ideal. While we were thankful it wasn't pouring rain on us, the wedding was scheduled when the sun was still rather high with strong light and strong contrast. Depending on the direction we were shooting we'd have to change techniques by up to four stops. This lead to a lot of quick retakes since setting cameras on any sort of auto-exposure in starkly opposite lighting would have yielded unfavorable results as soon as you changed directions. For instance, setting a camera on shutter priority and shooting into a strongly backlit scene guarantees the subject will be underexposed when the meter shuts down prematurely. With the sun to my back though shutter priority would work fine, albeit with very small apertures like f16, which is not my ideal setting for portraiture. Like I said, a tough day to shoot a wedding.
Regardless, we made our adjustments throughout and still managed to walk away with many, many, many keepers. Like always, we wish we could have captured more, but that pesky thing called time doesn't relent for the most expedient of shooters.
I'm looking forward to posting some more work on this blog of non-wedding related material soon as well. The smell of Autumn is in the air and the gorge is calling our names, it's time to pursue bronze colors, photograph leaves in a downward angle rather than up to the branches, and capture nature headed towards its inevitable winter slumber. And then, the darkness of winter will be around us once again! Ugh. =)
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