Wedding photographer Essex
Saracen's Hotel Chelmsford 19th April 2014
As any photographer will tell you, when working with flash, be it on camera or off camera, off camera flash nearly always gives the best results.
As mentioned in a previous post i photographed a post wedding party for Scott & Charlotte at the bull in Boreham, the following week i was asked to photograph a fancy dress party for the same said couple at the Saracen's hotel in Chelmsford high street.
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Because of the nature of photographing parties i knew everything would be moving at a mad pace, initial set up was 2 Nikon Sb-910's mounted on light stands and bounced off an almost white ceiling with pocket wizard tt's and a zone controller, power set to 1/2 power, which gave quite good results to begin with but there was no where to put the stands without someone tripping over them, at first i hid one behind a full size cut out Elvis and the other behind a full size cut out president Obama, come 8.15 pm and there was maybe 10 people at the party then all of a sudden close to 150 by 8.25 and it just went mad and i could see my cherished Sb-910's going for a dive especially once the booze started flowing.
Plan B
Stands packed away and switched to on camera ttl flash minus 1.3-1.7 fec with side and rear bounce, probably not the best way to get perfect lighting but a good sake safer for my gear. As the evening wore on more and more people turned up and people really made an effort to dress up, got loads of really excellent shots.
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| The Gang |
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| 3 Amigo's |
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| Charlotte & Scott |
