Lourdes (my friend and student) and Luca (my husband’s friend and work colleage) got married last night.
I was chief photographer. I’d been rather nervous about it, beause I hadn’t done a wedding for about ten years, and this would be the first one with my new digital camera. Worse, the flash gun I’d ordered in May specially for this wedding hadn’t arrived until mid July. After using it for only three weeks, I still wasn’t 100% confident with it. Now that sort of thing doesn’t greatly matter when you can go back and take the photos again, but weddings are special, and I was really keen to do a good job.
It didn’t help that I’d used it at the hen party (see Saturday, August 04, 2007) and found the batteries ran down pretty fast. This meant that the flash recharge time went from about 2 seconds to about 20 seconds.
Twenty seconds is a heck of a long time when people are exchanging rings.
My husband, bless him, came up with an external power pack which plugged into the battery compartment without damaging the flash and thus invalidating the guarentee. It meant I had to have a bag over my shoulder the whole time, but the flash recharged faster than the camera could re-focus all night long. I was impressed and very grateful.
I had some minor glitches using the new flash, but it’s nothing I can’t fix with Photoshop, thank goodness.
Once I relaxed a bit, we had a great time. It was a really nice wedding.
