I have been making money out of photography for years shooting sports a few weddings christenings anything that comes along. I offered to shoot a family members wedding (I did her sisters wedding a few years ago as my 2nd wedding and I feel I have never shot a wedding as well as I did that one since) the weather was a bit pants rain all day pretty much, 3:30pm wedding so going to be dark after mixture of lighting the main room so not looking good.
Anyway no chance to get the bride and groom away from the venue due to their son wanting mum, and the very small grass area was water logged so that was out, the rest of the grounds was carpark with an electricity sub station in the corner, an 8 foot high metal fence all around, huge electricity pylon over the top and a mobile phone mast to boot. So a nightmare when I was walking round the place looking for ideas.
Managed to get the gang shots just about before the light went and before everyone froze so everyone disappeared to the bar for the open fire that was in there.
I had seen something similar that a mate had shot so I thought I would have a go, the brides brother helped me as my stand in and I had a go at this and I think it worked pretty well and I think it will become one of the shots take at as many weddings as I can for the future.
A few things I would fix like the grooms head inside the brolly and maybe a little less on the far flash.
Method was LED panel on the floor at the front for focusing light mainly as it was pretty dark, flash 1 at waste height on a light stand at 1/128 firing up in to the umbrella just a normal white umbrella not a photography one then another flash on the floor about 4m away on 1/16angled up both fired by radio triggers. Not much done in lightroom, greyscale and slight vignette and job done
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