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Wedding shoot with Olympus E-M5

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:27 am
by 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
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Wedding1 by Ozimax, on Flickr

Olympus 75mm
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Wedding2 by Ozimax, on Flickr

Olympus 45mm
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Wedding3 by Ozimax, on Flickr

Olympus 45mm
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Wedding4 by Ozimax, on Flickr

Re: Wedding shoot with Olympus E-M5

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:07 pm
by sirhc55
There’s nowt wrong with those shots Ozi :up:

Re: Wedding shoot with Olympus E-M5

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:30 pm
by ozimax
sirhc55 wrote:There’s nowt wrong with those shots Ozi :up:


As opposed to your spelling Chris... :biglaugh:

Re: Wedding shoot with Olympus E-M5

PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:11 pm
by sirhc55
If yer com from Yorkshire laddie then you would know what nowt means :up:

Re: Wedding shoot with Olympus E-M5

PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:49 am
by aim54x
Some great images there!! Who said the smaller sensors cant provide nice Bokeh??

Re: Wedding shoot with Olympus E-M5

PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:37 am
by biggerry
#2 holy bokeh batman

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

Re: Wedding shoot with Olympus E-M5

PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:20 pm
by ozimax
biggerry wrote:#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.

Re: Wedding shoot with Olympus E-M5

PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:41 pm
by 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 :)

Wedding shoot with Olympus E-M5

PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:22 pm
by Geoff M
You would have to be pleased with those wether you were the photographer or the happy couple. Great work.

Re: Wedding shoot with Olympus E-M5

PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:56 pm
by 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.

Re: Wedding shoot with Olympus E-M5

PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:41 pm
by ozimax
Matt. K wrote: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.