| One dilemma that a wedding videographer often | | | | was forced to shoot the video with just the |
| faces is dim lighting in a church or synagogue. In | | | | available natural light. I have found that if the |
| order to get the best quality wedding video, you | | | | church or synagogue is large and dimly lit, you can |
| need an adequate amount of light, and an | | | | ask the officiant to turn on all possible overhead |
| experienced wedding videographer will know how | | | | lighting. This should be sufficient to shoot a |
| to work with any lighting situation. Most churches | | | | wedding video. An experienced videographer will |
| and synagogues do not allow lighting and many do | | | | know that he can turn up the gain. Yes, this |
| not even want camera flashes used during the | | | | brings a bit of video noise into the wedding video |
| ceremony. | | | | but at the same time it can help bring up the |
| Case in point, I was shooting the photography for | | | | lighting to an adequate level. |
| a wedding in a big, beautiful old church outside | | | | We all know that weddings can be held in any |
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The videographer came | | | | number of venues, from the beach, to a field, to |
| in and set up two 2000 watt quartz halogen flood | | | | a stadium. Weddings have even been held in |
| lights. Needless to say, it looked like a movie set, | | | | restaurants and haunted houses. Lighting for |
| wires everywhere, so it was no surprise to me | | | | wedding videography for this type of service is |
| when the priest came in and asked to speak to | | | | naturally going to be based on the place and time |
| Cecil B.DeMille. He told the videographer that this | | | | of day. There will likely to be less restrictions and |
| was a church and not a movie set. | | | | you will be able to get creative with your lighting. |
| The videographer did not check with the church | | | | You can indulge your inner film maker. Some |
| before the wedding, so he was not aware of the | | | | newer churches are designed like a theater and |
| restrictions for wedding videos and photography. | | | | will have the necessary lighting in place. |
| The priest made him take down the lights, so he | | | | |