Finally posting a few pics for C&C

momo3boys · Oct 19, 2011

Go easy on the tech speak, I'm still learning it all.

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tirediron · Oct 19, 2011

C&C per req:

1. While I'm not a fan of the currently popular desaturated look, it is a personal thing. In this case however, the cast is leaning toward the green/brown and not, IMO the most appropriate for a bride. I would level the image and crop one side or the other to move the subjects slightly off-centre. On the plus side, you've got good exposure on the whites, always the most important thing in wedding photography.

2. A nice image, and good exposure, but it does look a little 'flashed' to me, that is, there appears to be a bit of glare from your flash.

3. There was potential here, but I think you may have missed it. The background is very busy and distracting, with bright and dark areas which pull the eye from the subject, and an overly tight crop. The face is under-exposed and really needed a fill light image right. Try and avoid cropping limbs, especially little bits of them such as the child's hand/fingers. If you need to crop limbs, do it boldly and not at/near joints.

Overall, they're not bad at all. The processing is a personal thing. One note, the use of the word 'copyright' in your watermark is redundant when you have the copyright symbol.

Just my $00.02 worth - your mileage may vary.

~John

DiskoJoe · Oct 19, 2011

not a fan of YOUR use of desaturation. why is the third pic in this group. Seems completely unrelated.

KmH · Oct 19, 2011

tirediron said:
One note, the use of the word 'copyright' in your watermark is redundant when you have the copyright symbol.

The US Copyright Office has guidelines for copyright notice: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf

tirediron · Oct 19, 2011

KmH said:
tirediron said:

One note, the use of the word 'copyright' in your watermark is redundant when you have the copyright symbol.

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The US Copyright Office has guidelines for copyright notice: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf

Keith, do you get a commission from the Copyright Office for every one of their links you post??? :lol:

momo3boys · Oct 19, 2011

tirediron said:
C&C per req:

1. While I'm not a fan of the currently popular desaturated look, it is a personal thing. In this case however, the cast is leaning toward the green/brown and not, IMO the most appropriate for a bride. I would level the image and crop one side or the other to move the subjects slightly off-centre. On the plus side, you've got good exposure on the whites, always the most important thing in wedding photography.

2. A nice image, and good exposure, but it does look a little 'flashed' to me, that is, there appears to be a bit of glare from your flash.

3. There was potential here, but I think you may have missed it. The background is very busy and distracting, with bright and dark areas which pull the eye from the subject, and an overly tight crop. The face is under-exposed and really needed a fill light image right. Try and avoid cropping limbs, especially little bits of them such as the child's hand/fingers. If you need to crop limbs, do it boldly and not at/near joints.

Overall, they're not bad at all. The processing is a personal thing. One note, the use of the word 'copyright' in your watermark is redundant when you have the copyright symbol.

Just my $00.02 worth - your mileage may vary.

~John

Thank you John. I do have a habit of using desaturization a bit too much. But I always provide both versions when I show them and then they can choose what they like better. I'm not sure I'd agree with the off-center part though. I think it works in the second one, but not sure about the first.

The second one was a bit of a crazy place to shoot. The back porch of a country club, and not a big porch at that. Not a lot of options for lighting and it was getting dark fast. I have a flash mounted on the side of my camera, maybe if I used my diffuser? This was only my second wedding on my own, so still a lot to learn.

The last one was a case of having the wrong lens on the camera in a tight place. I thought I would give it a try, but you're right, just too tight of a shot. I was playing more with the DOF and changing up the aperture.

As to Diskojoe, these were just three pics I thought I would put up for C&C, not really in a theme. As for the saturation, I guess I prefer to half the saturation then to go totally B&W... Just a preference. What don't you like about it? They seemed like moments that needed a little softening. What are other options?

sm4him · Oct 19, 2011

I agree that the first picture should be slightly off-center; or perhaps cropped to a portrait orientation instead.
I'd really like to see the original of the first two, to compare them to the desaturated versions.

MTVision · Oct 19, 2011

momo3boys said:
As to Diskojoe, these were just three pics I thought I would put up for C&C, not really in a theme. As for the saturation, I guess I prefer to half the saturation then to go totally B&W... Just a preference. What don't you like about it? They seemed like moments that needed a little softening. What are other options?

I don't know if I think the desaturation softens the image in this case. I agree that it would be nice to see the color images.

I just think that if I was the bride I wouldn't like the desaturated look. It makes the skintones almost grayish IMO. Its suppose to be one of the happiest days of the brides life but the coloring looks a little dreary! I'm sure there is another way to soften the picture. I know you said you didn't want to go fully black and white but I think it would look better! You can do softer looking black and whites.

momo3boys · Oct 20, 2011

Ok, here are the originals of the weddings pics. What do you think?
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Infinite_Day · Oct 20, 2011

You have good background blur in the first but it does have some flash harshnesss which could porbably be reduced in post processing. For the second one I would have shot or cropped it to portrait orientation plus the horizon line running across the frame right at the top of her head is a problem.