Derrel
Mr. Rain Cloud
- Joined
- Jul 23, 2009
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- USA
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2nd shooter for Trevor Brown
Pretty good overall. Except for this shot. This looks horrible. Just totally,totally awful compositionally.This looks like a beginner's idea of composing a photo. I would love to hear a reasoned justification for ruining a shot of the groom in this manner.
The sepia tone looks pretty good to me. I especially liked the high-angle, wide-angle shot of the ceremony from the balcony--that was very nice!
Another shot that looked bad was the father helping the groom get dressed...a bad horizontal composition, and too much defocus on the groom. The groom's wedding-ring-less finger would have been included had the composition been a more-appropriate "tall", but it was shot as a horizontal, so his youthful physique, and his ring-free fingers were all not shown. Instead, we got a good look at a blown-out white wall, and a black doorway. Just a lousy choice on that one being a horizontal. Also,the foreground bokeh of that lens is nothing special...it does nice-looking REAR defocus, but the foreground bokeh is not very pleasant to look at.You've played that defocus trick pony card one too many times. So all in all, the shot of what I assume to be the groom's father helping him get dressed was a totally blown shot...horrible composition, and bad technique ( 135mm lens used from close range, very wide-open)...I sure hope you shot that "straight" as well, with a shorter lens and without the blown-out focus on one of the single most-important shots in the GROOM's shot list...
Lotta' work on the bride's shots, but that shot of the groom being dressed is simply awful... I hope there are others...
I thought the ski lift wedding concept was novel...FIRST time I have EVER head of a ski lift wedding.