My long-time partner and I got married yesterday. Things went off quite well and it was exactly what we wanted - a simple country wedding at home with family attending and a local judge presiding. No one flubbed their lines, food and drink was good, people, grandkids (all 11 of them) and dogs all had fun. We are lucky in that both families were very supportive of our decision - something that apparently isn't that common where a widow and widower get married later in life.
I photographed the setting before things got going, but obviously couldn't photograph the actual wedding. Two of the guests told me they were avid photographers but didn't have good cameras, so I issued one a Sony RX100V and another with a Fuji XT2 and the 18-55mm lens. Each camera was set to shoot on automatic, so all they had to do was frame the pic and press the shutter button. I never use those cameras on full auto, so I experimented for a couple of weeks ahead of time and set up parameters that I knew would work well on full auto under the anticipated shooting conditions. Each camera had a 256GB memory card. I asked the two photographers to take a thousand pics of the wedding, the people, the food, etc, etc. and not worry about picking through them. I figured I'd cull through all of the countless files afterward and get at least some really good pics. I REALLY wanted one good image to print, frame and hang on the fireplace in the great room.
The cameras worked great, but my idea was a total bust. There were perhaps two dozen frames captured between the two cameras. Most were distant snapshots where the people looked like tiny specs. I got virtually no usable images. Happily, this was the only disappointment of the day. I shoulda known better - guess you get what you pay for. Very disappointing with no way to go back and fix it. 😞
This was the outside of the house in the morning after days of mowing, power washing, flower planting, etc.
It was a great day!
Greg