A selection of images from Rachel and Phil's wedding on Saturday at Whitstable Castle. Please check out their wedding gallery on my website or on Facebook (non-Flash based).
1/200, f/4, ISO 400, 0 EV, 24mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
Folly House, Rachel's beautiful family home. Shame about the snow blizzard!
1/50, f/2.8, ISO 1600, 1 EV, 29mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
1/60, f/1.6, ISO 2500, 0 EV, 85mm f/1.2L II
1/160, f/2.8, ISO 3200, 0 EV, 16mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
1/100, f/2.2, ISO 1600, ‒ 1 EV, 35mm f/1.4L
The lovely bride. Just window light for this one.
1/100, f/1.8, ISO 400, 1 EV, 0 FEC, 35mm f/1.4L
Bounced flash from the right. Positive exposure compensation (EC) due to the bright background.
1/100, f/2.8, ISO 3200, 1 EV, 21mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
1/125, f/2.8, ISO 2000, 0 EV, 0 FEC, 27mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
A combination of window light and flash (bounced from the direction of the window.)
1/640, f/4, ISO 125, 1 EV, 16mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
The grounds of Whitstable Castle.
1/500, f/2.2, ISO 200, ‒ ²⁄₃ EV, 35mm f/1.4L
The groom, looking very relaxed. Notice the negative EC due to the dark tones.
1/125, f/3.5, ISO 1000, ⅓ EV, 16mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
1/125, f/3.5, ISO 1000, ‒ ⅓ EV, 35mm f/1.4L
1/500, f/2.8, ISO 400, 0 EV, 24mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
An obscured arrival of the bride.
1/80, f/2.8, ISO 1600, 0 EV, 35mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
1/60, f/2.8, ISO 1600, 0 EV, 0 FEC, 16mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
Rachel and Phil chose to face their guests during the ceremony. This gave me a bit more room to manoeuvre but I had to use flash for the entire ceremony as very little light was reaching their faces (I put the camera in manual mode to fix the ambient exposure.) I bounced light from all walls in the room, dependent upon which direction they faced.
1/60, f/2.8, ISO 1600, 0 EV, 0 FEC, 16mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
1/60, f/2.8, ISO 1600, 0 EV, 0 FEC, 35mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
1/60, f/2.8, ISO 1600, 0 EV, 0 FEC, 35mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
1/60, f/2.8, ISO 1600, 0 EV, 0 FEC, 35mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
1/80, f/2.8, ISO 1000, ²⁄₃ EV, 33mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
Everyone bravely stepped outside for the group shots. The quantity of light was low but the quality was high. Positive EC due to the snow.
1/40, f/2.8, ISO 2500, ²⁄₃ EV, 32mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
10 minutes later and notice how far the light levels had dropped.
1/80, f/2.8, ISO 800, 0 EV, 0 FEC, 27mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
And now time for some off-camera flash. All done with a Speedlite 580EX II fitted with a 5" Honl snoot and powered by a CP-E4 battery pack. Triggered with the PocketWizard miniTT1-flexTT5 combo.
1/80, f/2.8, ISO 800, 0 EV, 0 FEC, 20mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
The snoot tightened up the light from the flash nicely. Phil's father Tony was the voice-activated light stand this week and did a terrific job. I moved him rather than using FEC.
1/80, f/2.8, ISO 800, 0 EV, 0 FEC, 20mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
1/80, f/2.8, ISO 800, 0 EV, 0 FEC, 16mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
1/80, f/2.8, ISO 800, 0 EV, -2 FEC, 23mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
I thought it would be fun to use their silhouettes on the castle wall. Notice the negative flash exposure compensation (FEC) to prevent the flash trying to expose for the wall.
1/80, f/2.8, ISO 2500, 0 EV, 0 FEC, 32mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
1/125, f/1.4, ISO 3200, 0 EV, 35mm f/1.4L
1/30, f/2.8, ISO 3200, 0 EV, 0 FEC, 18mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
Options were limited for the cake-cutting shot. The cake had been placed in an alcove (not sure of the correct architectural term) with windows on three sides. I was unable to bounce flash light in as the appropriate surface was too far away, and I couldn't use my Lastolite Apollo softener to fire flash directly into the alcove without getting bright reflections in the windows. I therefore squeezed in beside the cake and shot into the room using the Lastolite. To get the cake in I had to shoot very wide, which caused considerable perspective distortion due to my position. I also shot at 35mm with less of the cake visible to avoid this.
1/25, f/2.8, ISO 3200, ‒ 1 EV, 16mm, 16-35mm f/2.8L II
And a farewell shot of Whitstable Castle. The castle was illuminated blue and the light from street lamps was reflected back by the low-lying cloud to give a rather surreal effect.
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