Had a great time shooting Rob and Laura’s wedding. They were a really lovely relaxed couple and wanted a documentary style shoot. I shot this wedding with my brother, who also used an X-T1 ( I used an X-T1 and XE-2 ). The 23mm is great for group shots, but both of us tended to use the 56mm 1.2 a lot of the time. I did also use the 55-200 in the church where we were confined to the back of the church and not allowed up front.
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Ok, time for some more details..I started off using aperture priority mode for the start of the day but I found that in very dark situations like in the church and the inside of the reception venue, the shutter speed would drop to 1/60. For me, on the 56mm 1.2, I don’t want to drop below 1/125 or I find I can start to get blurries creeping in. So eventually I went back to my normal way of shooting which is to shoot in full manual mode, shutter speed 1/125 but with ISO set to auto ( and limit the shutter speed to 1/125 in the auto iso settings ). For metering I use spot metering 95% of the time and focus on the persons face so that it is always correctly exposed. I do play around with exposure compensation sometimes, but generally leave it at 0. On the X-T1 I find the metering dial is quite easy to knock onto one of the other 3 settings. Normally I notice this when the image is too dark and changing the exposure comp doesn’t seem to do anything..in these cases I’ve almost always knocked the metering dial off spot and onto one of the other settings.
