Wedding Photography using the Fuji X100 (as a guest)
This past weekend I was a guest, at a very good friend of mine from my rugby days, wedding. Its been a while since I was a guest at a wedding and I knew it would be a perfect opportunity to put the Fuji X100 through its paces.
Now, to set the scene slightly before looking at the images:
- I am terrified of flying (so the sight of a propeller plane did not help – the shot of the propeller is taken out through a pretty grotty tiny aeroplane’s window at 23,000 feet. I only thought people like Indiana Jones flew in planes like this these days. The Guinness helped).
- The wedding was in Cork, Ireland. There was a man hanging off the wall. Honest. You should probably ask someone from Cork why.
- It also has the darkest pub in the whole of the world near the English Market – which was a good test for the X100.
- The guests were mostly my rugby friends. So, as you can imagine it was pretty lively. Especially as it was in Cork. 6am and still singing in the bar (the last few images) were the order of the day.
- The ceremony shots were taken from my seat at the end of the pew. Mostly with my arm extended left into the aisle.
- Most of these shots were at 3200 ISO and have gone from camera through to processing very quickly. I haven’t corrected the images, just run my basic actions over them.
- Some of them may be blurry due to the effects of Guinness, Brandy, jager bombs and Gin and Bitter Lemon (rather than camera shake).
- Please remember that I was a guest so these are not professional images. There was a full time photographer in attendance also.
- Cork is Ace. Go.
As I look at the images it proves to me even more that this little box of magic is becoming more and more capable as a full-time documentary wedding photography camera for me.
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Wow – wish you’d been a guest at our wedding…
Very nice. Thanks for showing.
Hey Kevin
Just stumbled across your site and this post, I see you found Cork to be more than friendly !!
Love the work with the x100 its very tempting to use for wedding work after seeing this
Keith
Thanks Keith. Cork was great – still perplexed by the man hanging off the wall though
Great work Kevin, we take ours for my partner to use but I may take it off her soon and use it myself
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The shot of the woman with the napkin on her head is terrific.
I’ve never shot in monochrome mode on mine but I think I’ll play with it a bit. And maybe shoot some monochrome video too.
My pro Nikon kit hardly gets a look in these days as the diminutive Fuji has taken over my world. It’ll even happily accommodate my Nikon speedlites off camera.
An you’re right, Cork’s a great place.
Paul Treacy
Really nice shots Kevin, you still manage to tell the story from the sidelines!