help with shooting people!

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I've been asked by some friends to take some photos of them to celebrate their wedding anniversary. I normally cover equestrian event photography, i.e. outside and natural light or indoor arenas i.e crappy light!

I have a D700, SB600 flash, a reflector and no experience of shooting portraits of any sort other than cats, dogs and horses, I usually avoid people!. lens I presume would be best is my nifty fifty but I have a 70- 200 F2.8 and a Siggy 24-70mm (which has always proved pretty useless when used in the past )

I don't have any background drops but my friends do apparently have light purple curtains which will pull flat so could provide a background at a push.

They haven't said yet whether they want outside/inside shots etc and obviously I've told them its all FOC and experimental which they are quite happy with.:D

any advice/help would be very much appreciated ?
 
Err.....not sure what I've done wrong - but any chance of knowing where it's been moved to?
 
Aha - I'm a twit, looked everywhere and couldn't see that ! Doh!

Thanks for moving to a more appropriate place!
 
If you're not used to shooting against a backdrop then using their curtains will stifle any creativity you can muster.

You should aim for as natural a setting as possible (local park?).
Get them to interact with each other, direct them subtly if they start to freeze up, the Sigma 24-70 is a bit slow to focus but under normal conditions produces great results. 24mm is more than wide enough for environmental shots of a couple and 70mm will get you a quite tight head-shot. If you have 2 bodies the 70-200 is a great alternative for really tight shots but... swapping lenses repeatedly isn't a great idea mid shoot.
 
Thanks for the advice Phil, I'll do as you suggest and persuade them to take a trip out!
 
Don't forget to take the safety catch off before you commence shooting.

Ahh sorry, wrong forum.
 
Why not take them outside, shoot them at the long end of your 70-200 at 2.8 or 4 throw the background out, then you could get some shots of them walking to you holding hands looking at each other, maybe sit them down somewhere. Keep it simple. Have fun
 
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