{"id":1736,"date":"2012-02-19T20:22:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T20:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2012-02-26T20:28:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T20:28:40","slug":"abbie-and-stuart-got-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1736","title":{"rendered":"Abbie and Stuart got married!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC00749edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC00749edit-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Putman wedding party\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC00749edit-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC00749edit-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more Technical stuff--><\/p>\n<p>Again I borrowed the Sony Alpha 33-SLT.  However I didn&#8217;t have enough knowledge or equipment to deal with the light conditions.  At Maddy&#8217;s wedding it was bright but overcast which resulted in diffused natural light &#8211; perfect for portraits.  At Abbie&#8217;s wedding we had bright sunlight streaming into relatively dark rooms.  What I needed was an external flash with diffuser.  The photo above is my best image from the day and that just happened to be taken when another photographer&#8217;s external flash with diffuser went off!  In the evening I tried using the flash but it was blinding everyone so I decided to underexpose and deal with it during post-processing.<\/p>\n<p>I was disappointed as I feel I could have done better, particularly because after we got back I realised the flash has different settings.  I didn&#8217;t borrow the camera till the day before the wedding; I could have asked for it sooner and learned a bit more about it before the big day.  That&#8217;s the thing about weddings; once a moment has gone it&#8217;s gone.  You can&#8217;t get it back.  Even if you could everyone has better things to do than wait for you to perfect your shot. <\/p>\n<p>Having said all that, the Putmans were very pleased with them.  I suppose, as an amateur in pursuit of continuous improvement, I forget that photographs are more than just aesthetics.  It can be frustrating at times but I still love photography and the memories make me smile.  So I&#8217;m putting the disappointment behind me and I am planning to do some flash-shopping&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}