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My 1st Digital Wedding

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My 1st Digital Wedding

Postby ABG on Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:24 pm

As a few of you know, I took photos for a wedding a few weeks ago. Finally got a round to PP'ing a few of the photos and would love to know what you think. The photo of the Jag shows just what the day was like - between 9am and 7pm we managed a total of about 10 minutes outside. The portrait oriented photos were taken from the balcony of the B&G's honeymoon suite. It was getting dark and the wind was freezing, so we had to do the photos in short bursts, othwerwise the bride would have been the thing that was blue :wink: Comments and critique most welcome.

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Postby wendellt on Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:28 pm

very nice

the last one is excellent very soft and a great moment captured

well done
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Postby gstark on Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:30 pm

Andrew,

Nothing wrong with these. Well done.
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Postby Geoff on Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:38 pm

Andrew - you're setting a nice benchmark for yourself with these images! Well done!
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Postby admajic on Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:58 pm

I really like the last one. Im sure the customers will be very pleased :)
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Postby PiroStitch on Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:07 pm

don't see anything wrong with these mate :) looks like you captured the moment perfectly.
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Postby johnd on Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:31 pm

I like them all Andrew and I'm sure they will too. Well done.
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Postby Ady on Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:46 pm

These are very well done, even without considering the limited opportunities you had to deal with.
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Postby macka on Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:31 pm

All very nice shots, Andrew. I'd be happy with them. :)
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Postby Glen on Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:36 pm

Andrew, that last one is a winner :D
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Postby cawdor on Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:16 pm

You managed to capture two nice natural smiles on the last one, focus and DOF are spot on. Well done!
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Postby Oscar on Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:24 pm

Great work Andrew. Very impressive start as a wedding photographer. Well done. Cheers, Mick :) :) :)
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Postby shakey on Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:34 pm

Great job...DOF is perfect
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Postby stubbsy on Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:58 pm

Andrew I've had a few looks at these before commenting since there was something about the last image that bugged me. I think it's a very fine image, but have decide it's the flower that is the problem for me as it seems out of scale (probably closer to the camera). Just an itsy bitsy little problem though.
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Postby shutterbug on Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:33 pm

Nice capture :wink:

I also agree with stubs about the flower in the last pic.
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Postby ABG on Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:52 am

Thanks for the constructive critique Peter and Vincent. The flowers were hard against the brides body to minimise this, but the flowers were bloody huge. That's not an optical illusion - each one of those suckers was almost as big as the bride's head. Do you think the photo would have been stronger without them in the frame at all? Also, do you think the sails from the Opera House are too out of focus?

Thanks to everyone else for your kind comments.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:10 pm

ABG wrote:Thanks for the constructive critique Peter and Vincent. The flowers were hard against the brides body to minimise this, but the flowers were bloody huge. That's not an optical illusion - each one of those suckers was as big as the bride's head. Do you think the photo would have been stronger without them in the frame at all? Also, do you think the sails from the Opera House are too out of focus?


I thought the flowers where huge of there own accord, regarding the OH sails, I didn't even realise thats what hey were, for me they images are still strong I like the nice bokeh you've achieved.

Had you wanted the sails to play a bigger part in the composition I'd have used a great DOF had got a bit more detail in there.
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Postby shutterbug on Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:08 pm

ABG wrote:Thanks for the constructive critique Peter and Vincent. The flowers were hard against the brides body to minimise this, but the flowers were bloody huge. That's not an optical illusion - each one of those suckers was almost as big as the bride's head. Do you think the photo would have been stronger without them in the frame at all? Also, do you think the sails from the Opera House are too out of focus?

Thanks to everyone else for your kind comments.


Hi Andrew, maybe remove the flowers , I think it would have looked better :wink:

I didn't even notice it was the opera house in the background :wink:

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Postby Alpha_7 on Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:14 pm

Andrew, inspired by Padey's MF shots the other day want about a square crop ? (I had a quick play)

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Let me know if you'd like me to remove the shot.
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Postby shutterbug on Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:24 pm

love it :wink:
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Postby Digidegs on Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:12 am

I am sure they are happy with the shots ~ I would be.
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Postby gecko on Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:54 pm

Supurb shots
I shot my first wedding last week - freeby for family
You have done a great job.....

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