{"id":451,"date":"2014-06-05T07:57:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T07:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbypassy.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2014-06-07T07:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T07:21:42","slug":"johnnys-christening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photosbypassy.com\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Johnny’s Christening"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was the first Baptism we have ever photographed, and overall it went quite well.<\/p>\n

It was not easy getting Family Shots in the Church, and in hindsight I should have changed lenses at some stage and used my larger 24-70mm low light zoom lens; rather than just using the 17-50mm F2.l8 lens for the entire shoot.<\/p>\n

Apart from the Church Ceremony, there was also an afterwards luncheon at a Winery, which required lots of “People Pictures” to be taken.<\/p>\n

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A full Flickr Gallery of Photos can be viewed here:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flickr Photo Gallery of Johnny’s Christening<\/a><\/p>\n

 
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EQUIPMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sony Alpha A-77 Camera
\nTamron 17-50mm F2.8
\nSony HVL-F43M Flash
\nGary Fong Gamma Flat Blade Diffuser<\/p>\n

I needed to travel as light as possible for this shoot, as I was wearing a suit to the function. The flat Blade Diffuser was great and easily fitted in my pocket, with the Flash in the other inside suit jacket pocket. <\/p>\n

The lighting in the church was excellent, as in the early afternoon there was great filtered sunlight streaming in, and there was no need to use any flash. <\/p>\n

Shots inside the Church were taken at ISOs of 800 and 1250. Any over exposure was then corrected in Photoshop. <\/p>\n

Generally we are finding that over exposure is not a huge problem, as the camera catches the detail, and it is then just a matter of toning it all down using Photoshop. <\/p>\n

However, under exposure is a problem, as less detail seems to have been captured by the camera sensor. These shots do not brighten up so well in Photoshop. <\/p>\n

However, we are doing all of our shots in JPEG format. My friend Scotty advises me that if you shoot in Raw, there is in fact more detail that is captured; even if the shot is under exposed. Now that we are getting our head around shooting fully in manual mode; the next step will be to learn all about shooting in Raw format. We need to get Adobe Lightroom, and then shoot an event in both Raw and Jpeg; and then compare the results. This is definitely on the 2014 To Do List. <\/p>\n

For the after function, the Flash was used indoors with the Gamma Diffuser and worked well. <\/p>\n

Daylight shots of people outside were taken at ISO 100 to ISO 400. <\/p>\n

There was a bit of a problem with large Group Shots having some people, especially those on the ends out of focus. I was using apertures of 4.0 to 5.0, but maybe I even need to go higher for large groups. <\/p>\n

Overall the shoot went well, and people were happy with the online photo album which was produced. <\/p>\n

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