Wedding Photography Behind the Scenes | Full Wedding Day | Zoe + Joy | Charlton Hall Wedding

[@DavidOastler]

Great information Ray I’ve subscribed

[@RaySawyerPhoto]

Awesome, thank you David. Hope you and Kerri are great

[@niallfeatherstone]

Great video Ray, really enjoyed that

[@RaySawyerPhoto]

Glad you enjoyed it Niall. thanks mate - just recovering from a long day yesterday at Woodhill Hall so that video will come in a few weeks time.

[@markmalonephotography]

Love your work and this was a great insight into your process, please keep these up, its so helpful and educational.

[@RaySawyerPhoto]

Thank you! Will do!

[@joshholgate9425]

Amazing video and images Ray, love to see real scenarios in cramped/cluttered rooms as we often have to work with :) as you say it's about how we adapt to difficult / less than ideal situations that make us professionals - and we are then honestly capturing the weddings, not curating photoshoots! Ace.

[@RaySawyerPhoto]

Thanks josh. Appreciate that mate. Yeah weddings aren’t always perfect shooting conditions are they lol

[@vics55]

Just catching up with these Ray, they’re awesome. During the drinks after the ceremony, did you use any flash? The room looked pretty dark but your photos are so clean. Same question for the speeches? Thanks for all your hard work, greatly appreciated 😊

[@RaySawyerPhoto]

I can’t remember haha. Most likely not as I try to shoot natural all day. If you can see flash pops in the video maybe I did bud have to check but most cases I just shoot ambient.

[@TheLensSchwendi]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I like what you said at 1:45 👍👍 Hello from Switzerland

[@RaySawyerPhoto]

You are very welcome. Thank you

[@paulwaringphoto]

Nice video Ray! What was the sunset app that you used?

[@RaySawyerPhoto]

you can use photo pills or the photographers ephemeris - I have both but tend to use the latter

[@GilbertTV]

really good insight into how to do it properly .... If I was 20 years younger I'd be doing weddings haha...

[@RaySawyerPhoto]

haha thanks G man.

[@carlj1964]

Banding is a nightmare Ray - I'll remember the 1/100 tip!

[@RaySawyerPhoto]

yeah I have A9 so its technically not banding on my system its more exposure changes from shot to shot as the lights flicker. how they put anti-flicker in the A7III but not in an A9. surely a firmware update would sort it. but yeah as they walk down the aisle I shoot normal 1/250 but when static getting married if I see the problem on my rear view I drop to 1/100 and it clears it up. some lights may have different frequencies and shutter may have to go lower but I would never go past 1/100, dont even like going to that speed lol. but burst mode and relatively static subjects its ok

[@carlj1964]

I'm still A7 series, and still have nightmares about HSS and efcs!

[@RaySawyerPhoto]

@@carlj1964 let me know details and I’ll see if I can do a video on the subject.

[@carlj1964]

@@RaySawyerPhoto nice and simple. Bright daylight, wide open, ad600 and 1/800 or so shutter. Massive banding top to bottom

[@RaySawyerPhoto]

@@carlj1964 do you have an example. Send me one over. [e-mail]

[@adamdixon5223]

Composition wise you seem to shoot to the left or right of the grid is this purposeful or instinct?

[@RaySawyerPhoto]

instinct now. I shoot a lot of "rule of 3rd" with subjects on the "lines" but I'll often place subjects outside of the lines too for interest.