katastrophekaty
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A ten month turn-around on an engagement shoot?
C&C per req:
1. Fill light needed; the strong background has caused extreme under-exposure around his face & eyes. Additionally, you've blocked his shoulder with the post and cropped away part of his back/hat. Just a bit of supplemental light from a reflector or speedlight and a slight position change so that we could see a bit of face was all that was needed here.
2. Lighting is the main issue here; you've placed the subject in (I assume) fairly deep shade and adjusted the exposure to render the subjects correctly. This has resulted in a blown background and since the human eye is naturally attraacted to bright over dark, the viewer is pulled right 'past' the couple into the empty background. A couple of speedlights would have save this shot.
3. Lighting, as per #2; when shooting subjects with large hats, always have a reflector to get a little light under the brim and onto their face. Watch your crops; it's fine to crop limbs in you have to, but always do it broadly and never at/near a joint and NEVER along lateral axis.
4. Nice pose, nice scene, lighting as per above.
Overall it's not a bad set, but your lighting (or rather lack thereof) has really let you down. You don't always need supplemental light, but if you always have it, then you're ready when you do. A single speedlight would have taken all of these from 'okay' to 'wow'.
Just my $00.02 worth - your mileage may vary.
~John
There are some issues here, Some technical and some asthetic. TI touched on your lighting issues. Do you have a flash? If not, then get one. Very essential for portraits when lighting is not ideal. Also you stated that the sky was overcast. Timing is very key. Learn to wait until the timing is right. You only do things at on other peoples schedules when there is compensation involved. When doing folks favors have them work with you more. The results will be worth the effort.
AS for the scene and the posing, you can really tell the ameteur status here. Their clothing choices are pretty horrid. He's wearing green and she's in red, christmas nightmare in July. Of course a quick b/w render would fix that. BUt what bothered me more than anything else is your brothers stonefaced look. Its emotionless, especially so when compared to his wifes great smile. As a photographer it is your job and obligation to figure out how to make him crack a smile and feel relaxed in front of a camera.