Tom Gregory - Hi Melissa,
I've just found your website and blog and finding it extremely interesting and helpful, as I have a wedding coming up.
My question is about how you apply the exposure compensation; do you simply change the shutter/aperture or do you use the +/-, exposure compensation button, on your camera? I use a Nikon so may be a different process
Thanks in advance for your advice, Tom
Stacey - Silly question..During the course of a wedding and receptions do you generally spot meter or does that change for you depending on each situation?
Melissa Jill - Thanks for your comment Heidi! No, no tripod. None of the images I shared on that post were shot below 1/60 of a second, so I didn't need one.
Heidi - Are you using a tripod in any of these high ISO, low shutter examples?
Mark Martinez - Great post and fantastic examples Melissa!
Yagazie - Very helpful...Thanks Mellissa
denise karis - Your blog is such an amazing resource. I am shooting a ceremony this Saturday in a super dim lobby of an old building in Phoenix and I am so so worried about shooting in such low light. This totally makes me more confident to work with it and make sure I'm maxing out my camera to get the right in camera exposure! Thank you so so much!! xoxoxo
Heather Beach - Overexposing to minimize grain is the best. advice. ever. I have always had a fear of high iso, and still kind of do, but that trick seemed to help a ton. Thanks so much for these awesome articles - I love them!!
Brian Walter - I can't thank you enough for these lessons!! They're been tremondous help!
Melissa Jill :) - Hi Evie- I use back button focus so that really helps with getting my focus accurate. You can see a post about it here: http://www.melissajill.com/blog.cfm?postID=690&f-a-q-back-button-focusing And I use evaluative metering.
Danielle Capito - I just found your blog and looked through all your blog post photographer tips! So helpful being that I'm a wedding photographer as well. Thanks Melissa :)
Evie Perez - Great Post Melissa! One question, How did you get your subjects in focus when using a low aperture (1.2)? How did you meter?
Amanda - You are so right! My personal philosophy is that I'd rather have an image shot at a higher ISO (and therefore shutter speed) than have no grain and underexposed or blurry subjects because of forcing a low ISO and low shutter speed. I think having technically correct photos is a big deal, but I'd be willing to bet nine times out of ten we photographers are the only ones who notice the grain. Clients care more about the moment captured than the subtle noise in a high ISO image...
Boston Wedding Photographer | Roberto Farren - great solid advice. even with digital the more you get right in camera the better and definitely up the ISO before turning on the flash.
Jim Blanco - Thanks again Melissa for sharing these tips, very useful!, and the images...wow!, specially the last, a very tricky one!
Cheers!
Katie - I am one to be a little afraid of high ISO. Now I won't be so scared! ;)
Rachel Tatem - Thank you yet again for passing on your knowledge!
You don't know how much I appreciate it!
Alyssa - As always, soooooo inspiring, Melissa! This series has been so beneficial to me. I can't thank you enough!