From my first Wedding!

[Juga]

Hello everyone! This one is from my first wedding. She is a little orange but that is literally just her tone. Any C&C is appreciated!

 

[o hey tyler]

Why 1/3200s at ISO800?

 

[kathyt]

I like it. I wish you would have stepped back just a bit. It is also a bit underexposed, but in this case it really doesn't bother me too much because of the overall image. I would bring up the shadows in her face just a bit more though. Good job.

 

[Benco]

I like the composition and the moody sky, The lighting looks a bit strong though.

 

[Juga]

Why 1/3200s at ISO800?

It was the only way to get the lighting to work for some reason...I tried several different settings.

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I will try the shadows and changing a bit of the exposure.

 

[o hey tyler]

Why 1/3200s at ISO800?

It was the only way to get the lighting to work for some reason...I tried several different settings.

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I will try the shadows and changing a bit of the exposure.

What was your lighting scenario? I'm curious to know how you were shooting this.

 

[TATTRAT]

Great looking moody sky, I hope it's not indicative of the couples future, lol. Her shadow kinda jumps out to me. As for it being a bit under exposed, that's already been hit on. I understand you on her being orange. . . seems that's how most of the chicks look just before the official start of summer. . . too much spray tans or tanning booths.

Congrats on shooting your first wedding!

 

[Juga]

Why 1/3200s at ISO800?

It was the only way to get the lighting to work for some reason...I tried several different settings.

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I will try the shadows and changing a bit of the exposure.

What was your lighting scenario? I'm curious to know how you were shooting this.

I used a 580ex ii as a master with the flash off and a 430ex on a stand to the right. Like I said though if I changed the ISO the lighting wasn't dramatic enough, faster shutter blacked everything out, slower too bright, smaller aperture was too dark, larger was WAY too bright. It seemed like this was the only way for me to get it the way I wanted it. Please let me know what I could do better because obviously I am new at this but very willing to learn.

Great looking moody sky, I hope it's not indicative of the couples future, lol. Her shadow kinda jumps out to me. As for it being a bit under exposed, that's already been hit on. I understand you on her being orange. . . seems that's how most of the chicks look just before the official start of summer. . . too much spray tans or tanning booths.

Congrats on shooting your first wedding!

Thank you sir.

 

[Robin_Usagani]

Well, you probably set your slave to ETTL, HSS. You could have shot it at ISO 100 with 1/400 shutter f/4. Or you could have shot it with ISO100, 1/200, f/5.6 without HSS and get almost the same result but at lower ISO.

If you want to learn off camera flash, learn shooting the flash in manual power setting.

 

[TCampbell]

I'm on my iPad so I can't check the EXIF data.

I see a heavily overcast sky and she's casting a shadow -- so I get that you had a key light off to the right. I'd like to give her more of an overall glow to and the lighting from the left is weak. I'm not going to beat you up too hard because you did well for an overcast day (let's be honest... most people would have done FAR FAR worse in the same situation.) So I was very curious about your lighting and noticed Tyler asked about it already.

You mentioned you had a 580 as master and a 430 to the right as slave. I'm assuming you fiddled with the balance on the two flashes since the 580 (the more powerful flash) is being out-powered by the 430 on the right.

I also noticed the comment about ISO 800 and 1/3200 s. I'm baffled why you bumped this up to 1/3200. That's WELL above flash-sync speed. The flash is only kicking out light for a very very tiny fraction of a second. ISO 100 at 1/400th would have yielded the same ambient exposure on the sky and if your camera can handle ISO 50 you could have done 1/200th. I do keep a 2 & 3 stop ND filter in my bag for just such an emergency. The slower you can get your shutter speed, the fewer pulses are needed by the flash in high-speed sync mode and the stronger each individual flash can be (which can create stronger lighting contrast and drama that you were going for.)

Her body angles "right" (our left) and her head faces "left" (our right). Her weight is on her right leg and her left leg is angled -- you're thinking about body position and posing. Nice lower-left composition with her head looking "into" the frame. This is a small image so I naturally want to think she's a bit too tiny and too far to see any body detail -- but I have no idea what this looks like when enlarged to a nicely-sized image for presentation.

A beautiful image. Thanks for posting it.

 

[Pallycow]

I almost really like it. I wonder if it'd look better with a flash used for fill camera left. luminate all of her against the dark background, vs leaving a shaded side of her.

Not saying that it's better, just something I wonder if I'd like more.

 

[Juga]

Well, you probably set your slave to ETTL, HSS. You could have shot it at ISO 100 with 1/400 shutter f/4. Or you could have shot it with ISO100, 1/200, f/5.6 without HSS and get almost the same result but at lower ISO.

If you want to learn off camera flash, learn shooting the flash in manual power setting.

I'm on my iPad so I can't check the EXIF data.

I see a heavily overcast sky and she's casting a shadow -- so I get that you had a key light off to the right. I'd like to give her more of an overall glow to and the lighting from the left is weak. I'm not going to beat you up too hard because you did well for an overcast day (let's be honest... most people would have done FAR FAR worse in the same situation.) So I was very curious about your lighting and noticed Tyler asked about it already.

You mentioned you had a 580 as master and a 430 to the right as slave. I'm assuming you fiddled with the balance on the two flashes since the 580 (the more powerful flash) is being out-powered by the 430 on the right.

I also noticed the comment about ISO 800 and 1/3200 s. I'm baffled why you bumped this up to 1/3200. That's WELL above flash-sync speed. The flash is only kicking out light for a very very tiny fraction of a second. ISO 100 at 1/400th would have yielded the same ambient exposure on the sky and if your camera can handle ISO 50 you could have done 1/200th. I do keep a 2 & 3 stop ND filter in my bag for just such an emergency. The slower you can get your shutter speed, the fewer pulses are needed by the flash in high-speed sync mode and the stronger each individual flash can be (which can create stronger lighting contrast and drama that you were going for.)

Her body angles "right" (our left) and her head faces "left" (our right). Her weight is on her right leg and her left leg is angled -- you're thinking about body position and posing. Nice lower-left composition with her head looking "into" the frame. This is a small image so I naturally want to think she's a bit too tiny and too far to see any body detail -- but I have no idea what this looks like when enlarged to a nicely-sized image for presentation.

A beautiful image. Thanks for posting it.

Thank you for the comments and feedback. I will have to keep this in mind next time because I really have limited experience with off camera flash. Seriously great stuff.

 

[Vtec44]

I think either the light missed her face or the light itself is low. A lot of it is hitting the ground in front of her and her dress, but not enough on her face. The horizon is right in the middle, which makes the composition rather bland. I have accidentally done that many times, so now I pay attention to it a lot. lol Other than that, it's a nice image. I like how she twisted her body, which creates very nice flowing lines and accentuates her curves.

 

[Robin_Usagani]

OP, lets say you keep the setting the same.. after you shoot this shot you have the groom with black suit pose at the same spot. I guarantee you your groom shot will be totally different.

 

[Sw1tchFX]

Hello everyone! This one is from my first wedding. She is a little orange but that is literally just her tone. Any C&C is appreciated!
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She's really orange because she's really underexposed. You lit the ground, not her.