Vtec44
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People like you are the reason people like me don't do weddings!
I want to start the divorce photography industry. I think my style is ideally suited to that genre!People like you are the reason people like me don't do weddings!
And the reason I quit doing weddings!
Stunning as usual! So...do you only do weddings for beautiful people or do you just not share those?
Room for one more Asshat as I am (as usual) going to disagree. I edited each of these except #2 which is close enough for government work, for midtone correction and to highlight the stars of the show: the bride and groom. The lights are too light, highlights are blown throughout. By shooting in the forest, which is a nice place to shoot, he made a cardinal mistake in exposing for the whole scene and not for the couple only. Expose for the highlights using a spot meter and everything else will work out. In my edits, I isolated the couple, dumped the BG down one full stop then adjusted the midtones on those two which pushed them into the foreground and left everything else as a frame. Wedding shots are all about the B&G not anything and everything else.
Tirediron said he quit doing weddings because these were so good, I quit doing weddings, portraits and other stuff that paid bigger bucks than just gallery sales partly because of shots like these (though mostly because I am not overly fond of people that talk back ). It's a good start, but there is lots more to learn.
Sorry, but I’ve gotta disagree. There is a time and place to selectively blow highlights as an artistic choice, and this was a good use of that in my opinion.