Outdoor Texas Wedding shot on 5D's

Great work man! The Xmas lights in the bground helped the shots sparkle that much more. Loved the bouquet throw with the rack focus.

I would have liked the glidecam shots to be slower though so as to have another second to take in the atmosphere.

Would you share what lenses you used?
 
That type of lighting is something we recommended months before the wedding and luckily they listened or it would have been super dark and uninteresting!

Flying the glidecam was really tough that day because it was VERY windy... I tried anyways and some of the clips came out alright. I wouldn't say I'm the best flyer either, but I push myself to be better each time I use it. I was on the fence with that shot as it was pretty fast, but it was the best shot to tell that part of the story that I captured.

Ok, for lenses...

I use Nikon, Canon, and Sigma. Each one serves a different purpose and produces different contrast/color. I love the look and mechanics of the Nikons over all of the others, but they don't meet all my needs.

On the glidecam I used a Nikon AI 24mm F2.8, shot at 5.6 or so during the day time and all the way open at night time on the dance floor.

Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 for indoor bride stuff kept at F2.8. This lens has the ability to get macro shots, so that makes it very useful. A downside to this lens is the focusing... you can pull from the closest distance to infinity in a very short roll of the barrel, where the canon lenses take a little more. This makes it really difficult to hit your marks.

Canon 24-105mm F4 for outdoor details and monopod/slider shots in the daytime. This lens also can do macro, which rocks. The focus pulling on this is a lot more forgiving than the sigma, but the light loss really hurts... that's why I use both of them... the bokeh on this lens is nice though.

Nikon 50mm F1.4 kept at F1.4 mostly to really suck in the light so I could keep my shutter at 1/50th and my ISO low. This was used for night time monopod shots.

Nikon 85mm F1.8 kept at F1.8 as well for night time monopod shots. The bokeh on this lens is really what I wanted for the long shot of them dancing.

Canon 70-200mm F2.8 IS used for the ceremony on a tripod to get the bride. I haven't really got a chance to put this lens into full force yet, but I will start using it more. The bokeh and distortion on this lens is a little weird though.


If you have any other questions you're more than welcome to ask!
 
This is very beautiful. I just shot my first wedding last night, but not for commercial purposes, it was my producer and I's wedding gift to a good friend.
 
Adamrohn & Sure Shott, thanks!! We take a lot of pride in what we do and give it all we got every time, with no exceptions to that rule! Pushing ourselves to do better each wedding/project is also a blessing and a curse :) Highly recommended though!
 
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