Thanks for another great days tuition by Julie and yourself, your skills of teaching match those of your work and the enthusiasm from both of you is infectious.

Many many thanks
Pete

Thank you for answering my question, and everyone else’s too – it is very useful information.

I really am impressed with the way that you get back to people with their questions. If there was an award for helping to improve the wealth of photographic knowledge – then you’d get a vote from me!!

Dave.

Dave

These Church shots were a challenge for sure. Let’s hope your church has some light Remember to use my magic formula with your flash if you have a particularly dark wedding. Don’t panic!

I hope it goes well.

Damien.

Yes you can use the zoom function on Nikon SB800 and SB900 units when used with the pop up or SU800 commanders.

I zoom the flash, take a picture and adjust to taste in a test and measure way.

Damien.

I focus on my subjects feet and then hoist the monopod nearly 6 ft into the air so that it is in balance above my head. It is then focused on their eyes

Damien.

Thanks for your kind words. Shooting stills at slow shutter speeds is like target shooting with rifles. It’s a combination of technique and practice. I use a monopod too for good measure.

A tip: Gently squeeze the shutter button in such a way as to have as much up pressure from your little finger as down pressure from your index finger.

Damien.

Dave – All my pictures are further enhanced. As Ansel Adams once said “You don’t take a photograph, you make it”.

The Winter Weddings DVD is now edited and at the replication house having a glass master made. It won’t have any post production at all. However the ‘Big Day’ DVD due out in the next couple of weeks does have a full hour on a bonus disc dedicated to post production.

The 2 pictures shown in this post taken in the green room were shot with the 16-35mm Mk2 lens.

I’ve read several of your articles where you have used ‘zoomed in speedlight’,

How do you know what to zoom to? and can this be done on nikon when using the on-board flash as commander?

Keep up the fantastic blog….very informative.

regards,
Bob.

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Hope that helps

Martin

When I do this I use a 17-40 stopped down to give plenty of depth of field and pre focus manually (switch lens off auto). If in bright conditions I’ll be on manual exposure too because light entering the viewfinder messes up the exposure. Unless you have a camera with a viewfinder shutter, in which case close that instead.

Martin

You shoot a lot of images with the camera above your head or with it attached to a monopod for additional height to great effect.

I have tried this technique in the past but have struggled to achieve sharp focus of the subject. What technique do you use to ensure the focus point is where you want it to be and is correctly focused and sharp?

Thanks

James

http://uk.youtube.com/joemcnallyphoto

Looking through the images have raised a number of questions for me.

1. Have the images been further enhanced by post digital processing? If so, are they as per the techniques shown on your understanding lighting DVD?

2. And, on this topic, will the up coming Winter Wedding DVD also have the post processing techniques included?

3. For the interior shots, with the bride in the green room. Are they shot with the 16-35 Mk II lens?

Thanks Dave.