Wedding shoot with Olympus E-M5

[ozimax]

Saturday week back I shot my first wedding with the OM-D plus a few prime lens. I also shot with a borrowed Canon 50D/24-105 combo. Here's a few images from the Olympus setup.

Would I shoot an an entire wedding with just M43 gear? Sure, but I would need to add the 12mm F2 prime lens to the stable to enable 24mm wide focal length, plus an Olympus TTL flash.

Olympus 45mm

Wedding1 by Ozimax, on Flickr

Olympus 75mm

Wedding2 by Ozimax, on Flickr

Olympus 45mm

Wedding3 by Ozimax, on Flickr

Olympus 45mm

Wedding4 by Ozimax, on Flickr

[sirhc55]

There’s nowt wrong with those shots Ozi

[ozimax]

There’s nowt wrong with those shots Ozi

As opposed to your spelling Chris...

[sirhc55]

If yer com from Yorkshire laddie then you would know what nowt means

[aim54x]

Some great images there!! Who said the smaller sensors cant provide nice Bokeh??

[biggerry]

#2 holy bokeh batman

nice stuff ozi and I really like that 3rd image, simple with very effective negative pace.

[ozimax]

#2 holy bokeh batman

nice stuff ozi and I really like that 3rd image, simple with very effective negative pace.

Interesting post of yours Gerry. I was always told (by many an experienced photog) that a portrait must be in portrait orientation. I actually like portraits in landscape orientation, if that makes sense, with plenty of negative space.

[PiroStitch]

Lovely stuff with the second and third images.

I prefer taking portraits in a landscape orientation nowadays. There are more options for composition and for me, it's easier

[Geoff M]

You would have to be pleased with those wether you were the photographer or the happy couple. Great work.

[Matt. K]

Ozi
For me, these have a nostalgic 60's feel to them. I don't know if you deliberatly set out to achieve that or if the Ollie tends to manufacture that style...but it's different and I like it.

[ozimax]

Ozi
For me, these have a nostalgic 60's feel to them. I don't know if you deliberatly set out to achieve that or if the Ollie tends to manufacture that style...but it's different and I like it.

Matt, I thought exactly the same thing. I think it's the Olympic algorithom/processing/whatever thing. It has been said before that the E-M5 produces film-like images which most people like.

As for the setting, environmental portraiture seems to be the rage these days among wedding photogs, (and I took some of those too), but sometimes I like plain old fashioned classic portraits. I think the happy couple like the results which is all I need care about.