Mr Ainsworth.....
I've tried to be nice,but I find your attitude to be a pain in the ass....
Not everyone can afford somebody who shows up with a Hassie or a Bronica.
Frankly, I'm tired of your "It's my way or the freakin highway ".attitude
As I've said in the past,very few people ever enlarge a wedding photo past 8
by 10 or rarely 11 by 14. The few times someone told me in advance they
wanted a big blow up, I brought a Mamiya Press or in the one case they
wanted a 40 by 50...(yes, a 40 by 50 to go over the mantel...what nightmare
that turned into!) I brought a 4 by 5 Speed Graphic and 10 holders with ISO
100 print film.
Your attitude is that there is only one tool for weddings..the one YOU
use...Look, if you use 120 format cameras at a wedding, your film and
processing costs are about 3 times what 35mm costs. A lot of young couples
simply can't afford that. If you had your way, it'd be a crime to shoot a
wedding on 35mm.
Instead of pissing about this guy shooting in 35mm,why don't you give him
some useful advice?
My advice would be to shoot some test shots and figure out how to bias the
exposure or to shoot on manual and meter the flash using a flash meter..
wrote in message
> I've been shooting for a long time, but suddenly I find myself facing
> an unfamiliar situation, and I could use some advice. I happen to live in
> a part of the country that has very few black people. Lots of Latinos and
> Polynesians, but very few black. I have been booked to shoot a wedding at
> which the groom is a very dark-skinned African. (No, he's not
> African-American. He's from Ghana.) And I'm told he has very dark skin.
> Same presumably goes for his family.
> The bride will be wearing white, which means the range between her
> dress and the groom's skin tone could be pretty significant.
> I will be using Nikon 8008 and/or N90 cameras, in program mode, with
> flash. I generally shoot Portra, with a rated ISO of 160, but I set the
> camera for 100.
> So what's the best course of action? Wash out the whites to get the
> dark skin tones? Keep the whites and risk losing the groom's face? Just
> let the computer decide for me? Any wisdom from someone who's handled
> this kind of shoot would be greatly appreciated.
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