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Shooting The 5D Mark III

Canon EOS 5D Mark III + 50mm f/1.2L | ¹/160 sec, f/1.2, ISO 200

I was honored to have been invited by my cousin and best buddy, Josh Liba, who flew all the way to San Francisco from Medellin Colombia, to help shoot a fantastically beautiful wedding yesterday as his second shooter. I helped cover the event using Canon’s new 5D Mark III, a very impressive camera. The new auto focus system in particular is a significant feature for the series. If you’re a Mark II owner, you’ll really notice the vast improvement in auto-focus performance with Mark III. Vast. Improvement.

Here are just a few frames I grabbed as I went throughout the day, trying to point my camera at whatever Josh wasn’t shooting:

Canon EOS 5D Mark III + 135mm f/2L | ¹/2,000 sec, f/2, ISO 200

Canon EOS 5D Mark III + 135mm f/2L | ¹/200 sec, f/5.6, ISO 200

Canon EOS 5D Mark III + 135mm f/2L | ¹/2,000 sec, f/2, ISO 200

Canon EOS 5D Mark III + 135mm f/2L | ¹/600 sec, f/2, ISO 200

Canon EOS 5D Mark III + 35mm f/1.4L | ¹/30 sec, f/4, ISO 100

The shot above was taken using a couple of Canon’s new Speedlite 600 EX-RTs, one on camera, and one behind the couple on the other side of the dance floor providing some rim light on my subjects. The cool thing about this new flash unit is that it has the ability to radio trigger other off-camera units. Very, very cool.

You can see Josh in the background at the edge of the frame to the right taking a shot from the other side. His on-camera flash is actually pointed at that wood-panelled wall right next to him. He fired his camera at the same exact time I did, washing light off that wall and providing my shot with some very welcome background detail. Yeah, uh, we totally meant to do that