Freezing Cold! But my wife was a trooper as usual!

[MohaimenK]

Wanted to practice this weekend finally as I been doing a lot of that indoor. Wife said sure, she'll help as usual. Practiced with the zoning system. I wish it wasn't so windy by the river which cut our time short in 20 mins. But got some great shots.

These were all taken with 70-200. I didn't want to raise the aperture more than f/4 although I noticed couple were at f/3.2. Trying to fidn the sweet spot of it. I didn't like how the background turned with Leah & Rico's pictures, where were pretty much all shot at f/2.8

***On a side note*** and I may be wrong but with #5 set, I used the flash. Reading "dragging the shutter" I read that the shutter speed shouldn't change the lighting on the subject, but just the ambient and that ISO/Aperture would effect both. So I left ISO/Aperture alone and just continued to raise my shutter speed to darken the ambient light behind her. After 1/250 it was bad. I have a cheapo cowboystudio trigger. At 1/500 the subject and ambient light were both pretty much dark?

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3. Wanted to get the sun behind her on these shots

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5. These were both taken with flash. First one I watned to keep the the ambient light brighter then with 2nd I wanted to knock it down and really separate her from it.

 

[Tbini87]

Very nice. I really like her jacket and how it pops off the the backgrounds with grass. With the last two flash pics the RxR sign is super distracting to me in the darker one, and I prefer the first one since it looks more natural.

Were the first shots all ambient light with no flash or reflectors, and then you only added flash to the last 2?

 

[MohaimenK]

Actually I just remembered! I think set 2 were also flash. No reflectors. I cannot do that during wedding so I am practicing with things that I will have during weddings.

I meant to clone the signs out but forgot. I will do that thanx for reminding me.

 

[Lazy Photographer]

Wow. I think #4 could be right out of a magazine. Excellent.

 

[MohaimenK]

Thanx! Ya I'm happy with these.

 

[oldmacman]

I like 1 B and 3 B. The exasperated look in 3B is priceless. Nice saturation and colour control in all the pics. 2B PP looks odd. The lighting is very flat and it is much warmer than 2A. Looks like you are loving a shallow DOF... nicely controlled.

 

[MohaimenK]

Haha yes 2b was a mistake shot. I had my speedlite in between my legs while I was trying to do something and accidently pressed te shutter. Had the camera pointed at her since it was resting on the monopod. The lighting was bit weird because the speedlite hit her from the bottom while the sun was hitting her from my right.

 

[MohaimenK]

Ehh still up so did an edit for the first set. It's got that creamy look to it.

 

[Robin Usagani]

I like 4 the best. NJ

 

[ConverseMan]

1A and 4B are very, very nice! Clean and simple. Great job!

 

[MohaimenK]

Thanks guys. Aside from personal favs from the pictures, what do you guys think of the compositions, but mainly the exposures. I was mainly focusing on the exposures when I took these photos. I was trying to work with the color zoning system, placing the right exposure for the right tone.

 

[ghache]

Great job on these mo! beautifull wife you have!

 

[Moe]

Very nice!

 

[JbleezyJ]

#4 1st pic I like a lot

 

[MohaimenK]

Thanks guys! Improvement over previous stuff??