Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alexander, Depending on the time of day or location of the wedding you should choose your film speed. Daylight wedding with good light then drop down to the 100 to 160 films, evening, or late, or very heavily stained glass so light levels are low then go to 800. In all cases choose one of the professional portrait films such as Kodak's Portra or Fuji's NPS, NPH, or NPZ. You will see much better skin tones and the ability to hold shadow detail that is advisable for wedding images. I would personally choose NPZ (800 ISO) unless the whole affair is outdoors in good light as there is no grain or sharpness loss compared to all but the 100 speed emulsions. No matter what the plans, the brides dressing room is frequently a romantically dark hole, some of the best people images occur in dark hallways, the sun always goes behind a very black cloud, it starts to rain... Even though I can frequently hand hold 1/4 to 1/8 second shots with an M, the people I am shooting don't conveniently stand still and you don't get second chances so choose a decent F stop for DOF but also go for the fastest shutter speed you can. The images that one of our members showed two weeks ago of a reception dance were wonderfully blurred and did work most excellently well as images, but you would not want your whole book full of blurs. 0.02 Don dorysrus@mindspring.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Glissan Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:03 AM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] WHICH FILM ??? (COLOUR NEG FOR A WEDDING) Dear All, I am to shoot a wedding on the week end (for friends as a back up pro). Apart from my own Black and White preferences which colour NEGATIVE films would be suitable to capture decent colour. I don't want to use slide but would appreciate any direct advice in relation to Colour Neg as I have never used it much? _________________________________________________________________ SEEK: Now with over 60,000 dream jobs! Click here: http://ninemsn.seek.com.au?hotmail _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information