Photo courtesy: maineschooners.com
Welcome to Wedding Season, 2018!
Yes, first wedding of the season is coming up soon, and it presents some unique challenges. It's very small...'intimate' as we say in the trade. Also it's on the water. On a sailboat. And not the largest boat I've ever been on either. A boat quite a bit smaller than the one I lived on years ago actually. This will put a rare combination of constraints on how I'll be able to work, and what equipment will be best suited.
I'll certainly pack just the backpack. There will be no room for the Tenba roller bag with a second set of everything.. Figure a DSLR body with two zooms [20-35mm f2.8 and 24-105mm f4 should do it], flash, tripod [for some sunset moving water shots], and a backup Leica zoom compact.
I'm making notes too. Reminding myself to reconfigure the camera's auto-focus from my landscape preferences to either a more agile multi-spot pattern or probably just back-button, fixed ISO to be sure the settings I choose get the expected results...stuff like that. Maybe some dual card writing. Never really bothered with that, but with one body and a short shooting window maybe this time. Oh, I know, maybe write the second file as a .jpg? Always wanted to see how convenient those files would be. [update: wow, now I see why I shoot RAW. JPG files are rendered, truly, awful once you touch them.]
Above is a photo of the actual wedding venue. Photo not by me, this will be my first time seeing her. Handsome boat, no doubt. But there's not a lot of deck space, and what there is will have sails and booms sweeping back and forth. The cockpit is nice, but small on boat of this size. At least there's a wheel and not a tiller to contend with.
Clearly, where ever the wedding party is, deck or cockpit, will dictate where I am...the other one. Will I be crouched under the mast but safe standing deep in the cockpit, or will I be out on the foredeck or poop-deck, one hand on a shroud, shooting around the mast or the captain with the other?
Remains to be seen. There will be no rehearsal under sail for me on this. One thing for sure is I'll have a strap on every piece of gear for this shoot. Good that I've a lot of time on boats. And, this is a great excuse not to dress up in a monkey suit this time. Boat shoes and khakis will have to do!
Welcome to Wedding Season, 2018!
Yes, first wedding of the season is coming up soon, and it presents some unique challenges. It's very small...'intimate' as we say in the trade. Also it's on the water. On a sailboat. And not the largest boat I've ever been on either. A boat quite a bit smaller than the one I lived on years ago actually. This will put a rare combination of constraints on how I'll be able to work, and what equipment will be best suited.
I'll certainly pack just the backpack. There will be no room for the Tenba roller bag with a second set of everything.. Figure a DSLR body with two zooms [20-35mm f2.8 and 24-105mm f4 should do it], flash, tripod [for some sunset moving water shots], and a backup Leica zoom compact.
I'm making notes too. Reminding myself to reconfigure the camera's auto-focus from my landscape preferences to either a more agile multi-spot pattern or probably just back-button, fixed ISO to be sure the settings I choose get the expected results...stuff like that. Maybe some dual card writing. Never really bothered with that, but with one body and a short shooting window maybe this time. Oh, I know, maybe write the second file as a .jpg? Always wanted to see how convenient those files would be. [update: wow, now I see why I shoot RAW. JPG files are rendered, truly, awful once you touch them.]
Above is a photo of the actual wedding venue. Photo not by me, this will be my first time seeing her. Handsome boat, no doubt. But there's not a lot of deck space, and what there is will have sails and booms sweeping back and forth. The cockpit is nice, but small on boat of this size. At least there's a wheel and not a tiller to contend with.
Clearly, where ever the wedding party is, deck or cockpit, will dictate where I am...the other one. Will I be crouched under the mast but safe standing deep in the cockpit, or will I be out on the foredeck or poop-deck, one hand on a shroud, shooting around the mast or the captain with the other?
Remains to be seen. There will be no rehearsal under sail for me on this. One thing for sure is I'll have a strap on every piece of gear for this shoot. Good that I've a lot of time on boats. And, this is a great excuse not to dress up in a monkey suit this time. Boat shoes and khakis will have to do!
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