well the wedding I have to shoot for my cousin is sunday. I have tested all my cameras, flashes etc. now they decided to throw another wrench into the gears. They are getting married in a hall, under an archway with candles on the side and mini lights all along the side and top of the arch, it's like one of those that you put together and some put climbing plants on. I am having a hard time to describe it. well we have it put together and with the lights off they way the are doing it at the hall I took a meter reading w/my incident meter. @ iso 800 and at f5.6 I get a shutter speed of 1/8 of a second. now I want to get not only the bride and groom clear in the picture but also get the candles and lights w/out bleaching them out flash. Would I use the flash and use 1/8 of a second to get the back round lights or would I be over exposing? My syc speed is anywhere between 1 second to 1/400th of a second on my camera w/leaf shutter and My Eos 3 syncs up to 1/200th a second. So after reading my novel does anyone have any advise? also If I take outdoor portraits of the bride on an overcast day should I pull the film a stop to get the dress white?
Thanks,
Magoo the nervous wedding photographer
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