Lost Without You

When shooting weddings, I'm always on the look out for a nice location for some great photographs near the church. The ceremony was held in a church in San Lorenzo Ruiz Church in Walnut,CA. As I was looking for a place to park, I saw this nice trail and said to myself, this is a perfect spot for the newly weds. Their DVD montage song "Lost Without You" by Robin Thicke fits the location. I underexposed the background by a stop, and lit the couple using an off camera flash. Shot was taken with Canon 5D II with 24-70mm at 24mm, F/5.6 at 1/1600 second, ISO 100. 580 EX Flash was triggered by a Pocketwizard mini TT1 attached to the camera and Flex TT5 attached to the off camera flash in hyper sync mode.

High Speed Flash Sync

Just a quick tip on how a High Speed Flash Sync can produce a dramatic image. The picture above was captured at 10:50 in the morning. I just finished taking photos of the ring and saw the throw pillow in the bed. Loved the colors and texture of it and decided it would be cool to put the bride's shoes on the pillow. The first image I took I wasn't too impressed on how the image turned out. In order to kill the ambient light, I had to use a shutter speed above 1/250 sec.
To control the light from the off-camera flash from spreading out even more, I used a DIY snoot and zoomed the off-camera flash to 105mm (the max on a 580 EX II). Image was captured with a Canon 5D Mark II with a 24-70mm lens at 46mm; F/3.5 @ 1/500 sec, ISO 320. Off Camera flash was triggered by an Canon ST-E2 Transmitter.

Here's another example:



Image was captured with a Canon 5D Mark II with a 24-70mm lens at 68mm; F/2.8 @ 1/1250 sec, ISO 400.