My first WEDDING

[iRay808]

Shot my friends wedding on 10.23.10. This was my very first wedding i shot. C&C please

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The rest of the picture can be found on my website.

THANK YOU FOR LOOKING

 

[mrpink]

Is he a good friend?








p!nK

 

[bigtwinky]

Is he a good friend?

lol...my thoughts as well.

Not going to CC each image but overall...

When you chose to tilt the lens, you did it for the wrong shot and had way too much tilt

Alot of the images have exposure issues and colour balance issues.

You chose some bad shooting angles, thinking of the B&G walking down the isle... his eyes are closed making a face and her face is turned. And the one of her dancing with her dad is not too flattering.

The setup shots are not too interesting. You have one in there with a blurry chair in the foreground and nothing of interest in the mid ground.
The one with the chairs pulled back is just a line leading me to nothing, the one before it is oddly tilted and has a glass half cut off and blurry.

Your gear also doesnt seem up to par as there is alot of noise in many images, even posted on the web.

Oh, and the processed image of them dancing as a couple is not nice. The processing is horrible and you only see the back of her head!

I seriously, seriously hope you weren't paid for this. And do NOT say that "well, they were happy with the images", that means crap. Hopefully you'll take this as a serious learning experience and your friend had some actual competent person taking real shots of them.

 

[Derrel]

Ouch, big twinky! Ouch!

But yeah...9,10,11,12,13,14,15...wooohhh...whiiiiiite baaaallllllllance! I kind of like shot #16. The earliest shots are variable in quality. These are the kind of shots I would hope my friends could give me from their cameras, to round out the coverage done by a seasoned professional wedding shooter.

 

[GeorgieGirl]

I like them. I know a lot o people like the tilt and I get why.

I'd find a #15 alternate to insert in place of the overall lack of focus even if it means a lesser creative side in order to round out the group and to keep the the theme, and all the rest are golden for the story.

I'd find the alternate to keep the flow up o a higher standard but I would not keep that one shot...hating the idea of losing two then....

Good Job!!!

 

[GeorgieGirl]

On second pass....maybe keep it in and fudge it...I'd have focused on he crystal...but don't make the same thing occur again with the overall OOF.

 

[bigtwinky]

Ouch, big twinky! Ouch!

There have been a few "My first wedding!" threads in the last little while and most are decent. I'm no wedding pro, but I do focus on getting quality products and being realistic with my skill level.

I appreciate that everyone needs to learn. I was lucky to be able to shoot my first wedding for a friend who had no budget for a photographer, it was me or no one. I refused payment.

If the OP of this thread was not the paid main photographer for the event, then this is totally fine and they can hopefully learn. My comments stand whether they are new or not, I simply dont like these, first wedding or not.

If they were the paid main photographer, then they need to refund the couple. If they are still friends with the couple, great, but they need to seriously get some practice in, second shooting or assisting other weddings and even just general knowledge of how to frame, compose and exposure an image before attempting to shoot a once in a lifetime event like a wedding.

 

[Phil Holland]

Ouch, big twinky! Ouch!

There have been a few "My first wedding!" threads in the last little while and most are decent. I'm no wedding pro, but I do focus on getting quality products and being realistic with my skill level.

I appreciate that everyone needs to learn. I was lucky to be able to shoot my first wedding for a friend who had no budget for a photographer, it was me or no one. I refused payment.

If the OP of this thread was not the paid main photographer for the event, then this is totally fine and they can hopefully learn. My comments stand whether they are new or not, I simply dont like these, first wedding or not.

If they were the paid main photographer, then they need to refund the couple. If they are still friends with the couple, great, but they need to seriously get some practice in, second shooting or assisting other weddings and even just general knowledge of how to frame, compose and exposure an image before attempting to shoot a once in a lifetime event like a wedding.

Nicely put.

 

[burgo]

No 1 rule of wedding photography: Always get the safety shots first, then go artistic if you want.

But I am not digging your work sorry. I would be pissed if I paid someone and they gave me these shots or shots like it.

 

[IgsEMT]

I'm with above.
When doubt -->

No 1 rule of wedding photography: Always get the safety shots first, then go artistic if you want.

BUT, look on the bright side - you can't get any worse

 

[Agnessa]

I do like these pictures, there is still room for improvement but overall they arent just boring wedding pictures, they are like taken from some movie or something

 

[peteredwards]

Job well done i love the creative way the way you shot..

 

[oldmacman]

There are lots of comments already that point out problem spots. Here are a couple quick edits to show you where you can take the photos if you are interested changing the pics at all.

Original

PP version

I may have gone too warm on this one.

Original

PP version

 

[Corvphotography]

There are lots of comments already that point out problem spots. Here are a couple quick edits to show you where you can take the photos if you are interested changing the pics at all.

Original

PP version

I may have gone too warm on this one.

Original

PP version

:thumbup:what did you do for these?

 

[oldmacman]

:thumbup:what did you do for these?

In PS:
- duplicated layer and set blend mode to screen
- noise reduction: topaz plugin (mostly because I am working on small, web based images)
- sharpen with a duplicated layer, blend mode at linear light
- filter>other>high pass - I cannot remember what level I used, but it wasn't much. Probably somewhere between 1 and 2 with the layer at 70%
- brought image back into LR and tweaked colour, fill light, black levels, saturation

Those are the broad steps. There may have been some other minor steps, but the above is what would have gotten it close. The tall narrow image was tougher because his head is blending into the dark glass in the background. I think I had to do an additional screen and mask his head to get some separation. Plus her dress is blown out toward her feet, so many of the steps had to be masked and adjusted so that it did not make that area worse.