Back from Mexico !!
I had a great time in Mexico for the Smith-Perkins Wedding. We had a great bunch of people. I knew most of Lisa's side but I didn't know any of Byron's friends & family. We had a good time.Four days wasn't quite enough to fully relax, but it came close. The biggest decisions in a day were beach or pool first and margarita or cervesa.
I toot a lot of photos. I filled my 2 GB card twice (one doing RAW+JPEG and one all JPEG) and I filled the 1 GB card with JPEGs the same day as the all JPEG 2GB.
I shot with my 70-200mm lens for the ceremony and reception (3GB day) and Luke shot with the 17-40. So I'd like to see how the other photos turned out. I think some of mine look pretty good.
The first day I had a crappy success rate (maybe 5-6%) of the shots were presentable. 439 was the total for day one, with 28 into the "keepers"
folder, but there were a lot of duds. I shot 379 for day two with 30 keepers, but most of those were with the guys playing football and the rest of us hanging out at the beach. I was much happier with my photos because the were all much sharper than day one. A higher keeper rate, but a much better presentable rate.
Day three, aka wedding day, was going to be a lot of photos considering it was an ad hoc photo session with one wife of Byron's friend acting as the "photographer." When it was all done the 2GB card was filled with
818 photos (picture session and ceremony). I only had about a dozen photos with the incorrect White Balance setting, but it was fixed before any of the photos of the wedding party. I've been though about 700 with 100 keepers, but a lot good shot and a lot of continuous shots, so it was harder to choose.
For the reception I took another 300 shots, filling the 1 GB card but I deleted a bunch because I needed to make room to for the other shots I need to take during the "dance" portion.
Actually most of my picture taking was done with a Polaroid camera that Gigi (Lisa's mom) brought for the guest book. I'll have to get scans of those photo and share them as well.
