More wedding shots

Here are more pictures from my friend Meredith's wedding last weekend. The ceremony shots could be better, but most of the time I had to shoot from a slight off center angle, since I didn't want to get into the aisle to get in the way of the professional photographers.

In the church, I shot with two Canon L lenses - a 24-70 f2.8 and a 70-200 f2.8 image stabilized lens. Thank God for the latter - I could not use flash during the ceremony, so I was shooting at 1600 speed, handheld. Two things became quickly apparent after looking at the ceremony shots - the EOS 5D boasts very, very good resolution even at 1600, and Canon's image stabilized lenses are excellent.

For the flash photos, I used a Canon Speedlite 580 EX II flash with a Gary Fong clear diffuser (with no dome). These shots could be better, but I'm newer to weddings and still learning using a flash. This was a good experience, though.

All images were taken at 1600 ISO, exposures unrecorded (I was just trying to get the shots on the fly) on a Canon EOS 5D.

Me with two of my best friends - Amy (left) and Meredith.