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Best settings for a church?
Okay, my best friend’s wife died in a freak car accident. Stupid turnip truck. I want to do something nice for him, and since I’ve got this cool DSRL camera (it’s a Cannon), I thought I’d shoot some professional pictures at the funeral. I think the f4.2 lens that came with the camera should be good enough. I’ve been to the church before, and it’s kinda dim in there because they’ve got light-sensitive antiques and paintings. I think I should be able to use the pop-up flash. It’s going to be a closed-casket funeral, but I’d like some shots of the wife, maybe with some of the guests.
Anyway, do I put the dial-thing to the one that looks like a little person’s head or the one that looks like a flower since there will be lots of flowers around?
I didn’t fall off the turnip truck yesterday, so I recognize this question for what it is. At least you know the casket is not going to make any sudden moves. Believe it or not, some people actually want photos from a funeral. (Who else besides Yahoo! thinks I’ve used a lot of punctuation so far?)
One thing that I have actually DONE (there are some CAPS for you, Yahoo!) is to go to the cemetery as soon as I can after the crowd has cleared and photograph the flowers at the grave site. If this can be done in the early evening, it is especially effective if you can combine a sunset with the flowers. (I’ve gotta get a split ND filter…) People often do not see the flowers on a grave when they are still fresh. Sometimes they don’t go back to the cemetery for days and don’t get to see the flowers at all. I wait several weeks and I offer the photo rather than just giving it to the family. Nobody has declined and ALL have been appreciative. In fact, I’ve received a couple of thank you notes.
I actually had one published in the newspaper, with the permission of the family. A young man who was in the military was killed in a motorcycle accident when he was home on leave and it became a newsworthy event. The newspaper covered the funeral, so there were plenty of photos of the family, etc., all with family permission. No, it’s not like the president died, but he was a very popular young man and the circumstances were tragic.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/2820714640/
If you (we) think about it, of course people have photographers at a funeral. When’s the last time a president or king died who DIDN”T have press coverage?
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