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Shooting Blind


Shooting Blind
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Copyright: Rabani HMA (rabani) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1335 W: 1 N: 3174] (9194)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-01-07
Categories: Ceremony
Camera: Canon EOS 300D, Sigma 24-70 f/2.8
Exposure: f/3.5, 1/25 seconds
Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-01-11 4:49
Viewed: 860
Points: 9
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
There are times when a certain memorable moment you can't get, at viewfinder/eye level. There are wall of people around it and you just can't slip through, to get it.

For instance, the moment when the ring bearer holds the ring pillow, for the bridegroom to pick the ring. There are at least 6 people around the ring pillow;the father, the bridemaid, the best man, the ring bearer, the bridegroom and the bride.

Probably it would be blasphemous or at least disrecpectful of you, to just slip through this wall of people. As a photographer, you need to be very aware of the respective value of the event you are covering.

The only choice is for you to go shooting blind. Raise your camera above the event and point it toward the central part of the scene. And fire away as much as your camera and flash, can get.

This requires practice and this is easy at no cost at all with digital camera. Get a sense of focusing or a feel of your camera when it is shooting above your head, at waist level, at left or right level arm length etc. By practising shooting blind, you are not limited to just shooting at eye level.

Don't think this is only for wedding photography. It is needed just as much covering sport/action and street photography. You never know when you have to use your guided "imagination" to get that important unseenable moment.
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Good note given. Too pity that picture is a bit blur. But under exposure: f/3.5, 1/25 seconds, it is almost unavoidable, especially in the wedding ceremony, where the place is so crowded!

However, you sense of focusing is good! the framing is just nice, the most important thing, and most important persons are inside the picture. Good capture!

Umm... is the groom trying to grab the ring? Well.. I can see some motion blur here. But then the composition saved the picture a lot. Good work Bani.

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  • jrj Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 5485 W: 506 N: 7212] (32773)
  • [2005-01-12 7:17]

It's like the old western with the shooting cowboy: poof - poof -poof
Anyway very good result and a nice presentation of the great moment. Sure easier as you say with the camera at full auto.
Well done Rabani.

very good note indeed, I like the tense moment that can be flet in any wedding, very good pic, well done

i like this pic for showing a very unusual point of view that we would normally never see (unless you were 8 feet tall or standing on a ladder!)
so despite your difficulties, you actually ended up with something very unique! :) the only thing that bothers me though is the yellow shadows... can those be darkened?
cheers
- Tina

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