patrick_anibaldi1

<p>Well put, I concur!</p>

<p>I use an Epson printer and love the Premium Photo Paper Semi-gloss.</p>

<p>Facebook is a great marketing tool. If used correctly, it can be very helpful for your business. Check out the August issue of Professional Wedding Photographer for some great advice on Facebook.<br>

I use it to post recent work, send out updates once a week or so about what I am working on. Some brides live on facebook.</p>

<p>zenfolio.com is similar to smugmug. It hosts your wedding images, allows visitors to order prints thorugh Mpix.com, and then mails you a check. Highly recomend their service!</p>

<p>I use Pro Show Producer for maximum control!</p>

<p>Same here. Auto WB shooting RAW, fix later.<br>

Or you could shoot a white card and set a custom white balance. But not necessary with my Canon 50D, its pretty smart.</p>

<p>I agree with using one large CF card for the entire wedding and having a backup available in case of an emergency. Personally, I use an 8GB card, which is sufficient for my Canon 50D while shooting RAW.</p>

<p>I recently shot a wedding Vow Renewal Ceremony in a Catholic Chruch. I used the 85 f/1.8 the enitire ceremony, shooting from about 8 rows back. Once the ceremony was over I used my Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 with Canon 430 exII flash for the inside group shots. Worked great, just make sure to turn up that iso. I did not have my Sigma 30mm f/1.4 with me. But that would also work for the group shots and wide shots of church.

<p>Tamron 17-50 F/2.8<br>

Canon 85mm F/1.8<br>

Sigma 30mm F/1.4</p>

<p>By lightroom version 4 or 5, wedding photogs wont be using photoshop.</p>

<p>Bride looking out window<br>

Sigma 30mm F/1.4, Canon 50D, RAW, edited contrast and BW in Lightroom 2<br>

Reflector being held by assistant below camera for slight fill.<br>

<img src="http://anibaldi.zenfolio.com/img/v4/p1002242265-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Just my 2 cents...<br>

1) Use spot metering (metering occurs at time of focus, to overide this with Canon press and hold the * button)<br>

2) Shoot Raw and you can fix a lot of your exposure mistakes later (+/- 1 or 2 stops). Some lighting situations wont allow a perfect exposure you have too choose what is under or over exposed. IMO the dress is pretty important, but so is the brides face!<br>

3) I also use Av mode. When I mount my flash at the reception I switch to Tv mode. Sometimes throughout the day I set the exposure manually.<br>

Best of luck!</p>

<p>You already have a backup body. What if the 24-70 lens gets damaged right before the formal group shots? Shouldnt he be more worried about having a backup lenses too? Dont by the same lens but get two primes, one wide and one telephoto.<br>

Canon 28 F1.8<br>

Canon 85 F1.8</p>

<p>Canon has three different focus settings...<br>

1) One Shot Focus (USE THIS SETTING)<br>

2) AI Focus<br>

3) Servo Focus<br>

Also, make sur eto specify which of the 9 AF points you prefer, do not allow the camera to choose every time or results are unpredictable. - Patrick </p>

<p>I would have posed the bride on the railing to the right. This way it looks like she is about to walk up the stairs, rather than bump into the railing. I thought this would be an easy adjustment to make the image more natural.</p>

<p>Im using Blogger, and I am happy. Simple and easy and my posts show up in Google! There are tons of custimizations, just search google. It works great for me, a Wedding Photographer in Temecula <a href="http://anibaldistudio.blogspot.com">http://anibaldistudio.blogspot.com</a>.</p>

<p>Switching to old school Poloroids has really speeded up my workflow!!! And Im not wasting any money on software! Win-win!!! j/k<br>

Seriosly though, Lightroom 2 is amazing and has speeded up my workflow. I rarely need to go into Photoshop, since lightroom now lets you do local adjustments. And it is non-destructive editing, adjusting the thumnail and writing instructions into the file for export. Great for editing lots and lots of photos at once, as well as organizing them. Similar to Picasa but a Pro version.<br>

Zenfolio for online proofing galleries and print selling. Download the plugin for lightroom and with a couple clicks in Lightroom you can create a gallery and upload photos to it. Even if you include the DVD like I do you will still make some print sales and they go straight from the lab (mpix) to the customer! <br>

Zookbinders for albums and photobooks. Great quality, service and prices.</p>

 

<p>Groom singing love song to his new bride.<br />Shot with Canon XTI, Tamron 17-55 F2.8 - exposure of 1/40 at F/16 ( small aperture to add the starburst affect) Image colors were adjusted in Lightroom 2. <br />2009 is my second wedding season.</p><div></div>

<p>Windows movie maker sucks, the resolution output is like 640x480 I believe. A good solution that is FREE is using Picasa 3 by google.</p>

<p>THERE IS NO EDUCATION LIKE ADVERSITY</p>

<p>I can vouch for the Tamron 17-55 F/2.8. The lens is fast, sharp, but a bit noisy. Ive used it in over 10 weddings and it works great!</p>