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I have been interested in getting into taking Senior Pictures and have been experimenting with my girls and their friends. We were out taking a few pictures the other day for their college entrance papers and just having fun. I'll see if I can find the one I did for Becky's sr. picture though she says this one is her "official" one.

I was faced with having to shoot a wedding without much experience too so I know how you feel. I'll leave the expert advice to our experts here on the board- they sure helped me. Shoot lots and lots of film and have fun. My "clients" were so happy they told someone else about me and I got asked to do another wedding next Spring. I had so much fun that I am already looking to do it again before that.

Back in 1999, my daughter and her fiance were planning to be married in the fall. In June, plans very suddenly changed and we ended up with 12 days to plan and pull off a wedding, complete with a reception and over 200 guests. We did it. Oh yes, we were also moving to a new house that weekend as well. And I forgot to mention that daughter graduated from high school the night before the wedding. No, I'm not joking. I also took a good many of the wedding pictures, with a little help from someone else. Between the two of us, we got some nice pictures, not professional but still nice pictures. If we didn't have those pictures I would swear the whole thing never happened, that weekend was such a blur! And, by the way, the couple will be celebrating their fifth anniversary in another week.

So far, he's wearing the pants...<div></div>

Wow, thanks Steven- that looks really sharp. My scanner is old and I sure wouldn't use it to scan and print anything for an actual client. Eventually I would like to invest in some better equipment and tools but that's in the future. And, thank you, James for the nice compliment. I was glad for the opportunity to do these pictures but it sure had me stressed out about all the things that could go wrong. So, guess what I went and did? I got asked to do another wedding next year and I said yes.<div></div>

I recently bought an AE1 (my first manual camera, no camera manual)

The first film I didn't know enough to rewind it so that was a

disaster. The next one I managed to rewind but when I had it

developed it was all a mess of double exposures. What did I do

wrong? I did remember to advance the film between shots, so is it me

or is it the camera?

Oops- you're right- it did end up being Kodak film. And I saw the processor- it did say Noritsu on it. Would it have made much difference if I had used the UC instead of the NC?<div></div>

Thank you, James. I am just glad that this all worked out and that my "clients" were happy with the results. I have a question though, about a slight reddish hue in some of the inside the church photos. Here is an example of one. All the church photos were shot with the Rebel X, using the 50mm 1.8 lens and without flash. I took my shots so that they were not during all the flashing from other cameras as well. The film was Fuji Portra 400NC. And I had it developed at Image Makers, which specializes in all things photo.<div></div>

I think this is my favorite one<div></div>

and another...<div></div>

well, since that last one came out looking halfway decent, I'll try another. I didn't do anything different that I know of, though.<div></div>

Marc, it's an old scanner and no, I didn't convert to anything that I know of. I'll play around and see if I can do better. I'm sure glad the actual prints from the film came out clear and don't look like my scans!<div></div>

hope this doesn't post three times- it didn't show up before. Resizing the pictures is distorting the images- any suggestions before I post any more pictures?

I haven't got this resizing thing worked out so that the images don't turn out distorted on this site but this is what I did for my neice's wedding. I wasn't quite sure how to handle this request but this was the result.<div></div>

rings...<div></div>

during the ceremony...<div></div>

I am SO relieved! I got the important pictures from my neice's

wedding back today. Here are a few and I thank you all for all your

tips and suggestions.<div></div>

Here are some pictures from my neice's wedding. These are from the

digital as I have not developed the film yet.<div></div>

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The subject line says it all- any special techniques or suggestions

for photographing the very elderly?

I have recently bought several things from E-bay and have had mostly positive experiences. I made a mistake in purchasing a so called "professional" flash but, for less than $20 I learned a good lesson. Guess the moral of my story is this: if it sounds too good to be true- lookout.

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The ad called it professional but I can't find any name or numbers on it anywhere to identify it so I suspect I would be better off not to try it with my camera.

Now, that thought is what you would call pessimistic...

I have a Rebel X and have always used a small Vivitar flash with

it. The Vivitar is powered by 2 Double A batteries and has never

posed a problem. I just bought a professional flash, which also is

powered by 2 double A's. It has a hot shoe cord attached to it and

three different distance settings: tele, normal and wide. It also

has attached to it a bracket for mounting. My question is this, if

I use this with my Rebel am I going to be jeopardizing anything in

my camera?