Low Light Church Photography

Are you preparing to shoot a wedding with a no-flash, low light situation while having to hand-hold your camera? This is tricky, considering that you are almost guaranteed blurry photos. How can you fix this?

The first thing you need to do in increase your digital camera’s ISO setting. The recommended setting is at least ISO 800 and can be as high as ISO 1600.

Next, you should use your lens that has the largest available f stop, which will allow the most available light in.

While most newer digital SLRs will allow you to shoot at very high ISOs with little visible noise, you might need to reduce the noise a bit in Photoshop. Here are some links:

http://www.picturecode.com/ (read about their “Noise Ninja” plugin)

http://asf.com/products/plugins/gem/pluginGEM/ (the Digital Gem plugin)

http://www.imagenomic.com/ (Noiseware)