I had originally photographed the wedding and coronation back in August of 2024, the year I took the final photos for the story. Back then I had taken all the photos with my camera hand-held and set on Auto-focus. But the intention was to eventually have the story printed as a book, and most of those original photos just weren't sharp enough, since they were taken at ISO 6400, and would be far too grainy. Even though I loved many of the photos, and they'd look just fine here on my website...
When zooming in, the image was far too grainy. If you are looking at this on your phone you're probably thinking it looks just fine. But if you were seeing it on a larger screen - or if it was to be printed in a book - it would not be suitable at all.
Here's another example, for those of you with a bigger screen.
I loved that photo and it looks just fine here, but if you zoom in, it's not sharp enough to be printed in a book.
So, I made the decision back in January to reshoot the entire wedding and coronation. I had to duplicate the set from two years ago. except this time I wanted higher walls, so hot-glued additional panels of black foam-core onto the bottoms of the walls, to make them higher...
This time I set my camera on a ten second timer at ISO 200, so the photos would be sharp enough for print. With the camera set securely on a tripod, a shutter speed of just a half second was perfectly fine.
This time I also had more fancy gowns for the guests to wear. The gowns were made to fit a Fashion sized doll, but would also fit my other MSD ladies. They'd just be a bit long. So, even though I used the same dolls in the audience, most of them were wearing something different this time. So I couldn't even mix in any of the few sharp photos from the original photo shoot in 2024.
One of the scenes I didn't shoot the first time, but got the idea for the second time, was the balcony scene. I figured the exterior of the cathedral would still have some of the same architectural details, plus the 'stained glass' windows, so just posed the dolls behind one of the wooden half-walls...right in the middle of the cathedral interior scene, with all the other dolls still standing off to the side, and out of the way....
Then I just took close-ups....
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