RE: Fixing in PP … on any camera, what I found is that exposures that look okay when really warm/yellow, aren't when properly white balanced in post … they often are actually underexposed looking. Probably because yellow is brighter looking than blue. So, watch out for that.
Many of the wedding venues are really dim and they use dimmers for "mood" light. Some have "party"lighting including green which does ghastly things to skin tones. Off-camera lighting helps solve that.
The real issue for me comes when designing a wedding album. Hopefully, the color is somewhat consistent (especially skin tones) …at least in a series of related images.
I honestly haven't used the A7R for weddings as much as I thought I would … I've tended to favor the A99 because there are more fast aperture lenses for it, all of which are IBIS … plus, it focuses faster with less lag. But I'm working on the A7R. The new i40 flash will help make the transition.
I mostly do available light with the A7R because the higher ISO is a bit better than the A99.
Lately, I've avoided the ever changing ambient WB issue with off-camera lighting. I got tired of trying to correct every freaking image because the lighting was changing every 2 seconds.
Although it has altered my approach to weddings, lighting has made me more competitive in these iPhone days where available light candid work is less appreciated because everyone thinks anyone can do it (even though they can't). Lighting scares most novice wedding shooters, so it's an edge that seems to be paying off with higher end work and more purchases of albums and prints.
Lighting saved my a$$ at my last wedding. Almost every situation would have required ISO 3200+ because it was all so darned dark and gloomy, not to mention it was freezing out. The hanging plane posed image in this album that the client requested would not been possible without lighting … it was a cave in there.
Kassie&JasonsAlbum - fotografz
- Marc