Wedding Shots

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Wedding Shots

Postby padey on Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:05 am

Recent wedding shots. Any comments are welcome. I've got think skin, so unleash..

12-24mm @ 12mm f9 ISO100 1/60th
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85mm PC Macro shifted to alter DoF f12 ISO400 1sec
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85mm f2 ISO400 1/60th
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12-24mm @ 12mm f6.7 ISO200 1/60th
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300mm f2.8 ISO200 1/750th
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Postby Alex on Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:07 am

Very nice. No1 and 4 are my picks.

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Postby DionM on Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:58 pm

Nice - like them very much!

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Postby vort on Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:30 am

Mate,

#1 is absolutely stunning :)
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Postby ozczecho on Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:35 am

#1 and #5 are my pics...stunning. #4 is also great but the bottom of the dress is chopped of...:(

Great work.

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Postby Newidude on Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:42 am

I think number 1 would be greatly improved if that cloud and the dust bunny directly below it were cloned out. The lighting is superb and the placement of them with the sun behind has really made for a striking image. Click reply and have a look at this image at a tighter crop in more of a pan-o-ram format. Maybe have a go at that?
Personly I dont like portraits shot from below looking back up so number 4 dosen't do it for me. But that is actually a pet hate from day dot that I have always disliked.

Number 1 is a definate winner though

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Postby bindiblue on Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:43 am

What beautiful shots,, I love them all,

Well done,

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Postby padey on Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:17 am

Thanks guys. Keep the critical comments coming.

Regarding the PP, there is very little done to these. We show images at the reception, so download all 16GB of images, pick a handful, convert from RAW, resize and unsharp mask. As you can imagine, there is not time to look at any images in detail. Therefore no real sharpening or colour correction is applied.

If someone has 25GB free somewhere, I'd upload a RAW image for you all to play with....
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Postby ozimax on Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:39 pm

First and third are stunning alright, they're all good. (They did take a long time to load on my DSL - might need to chop down file size next time??)

IMHO, the standard of wedding photos posted on this site is rising all the time, these are wonderful. What a great photo site is DSLRusers!

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Postby Willy wombat on Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:19 am

great use of the fill flash in #1
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Postby TonyH on Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:22 am

I really do like number 1. The backlighting and use of fill flash is excellent.

The others are good shots as well. The only problem I have is with number 4, it makes the couple look as though they are 6'6" tall and appears a little odd to me.

However that's just my take, I'm sure others have differing thoughts and opinions..... :D


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Postby BullcreekBob on Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:02 pm

G'day

They are all great captures, you should be pleased.

I think the DOF is beautifully controlled in #3.

I might need to recalibrate my monitors though, #1 and #4 seem oversaturated with colour, or maybe it's just my washed out mood today.

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Postby wmaburnett on Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:04 pm

WoW Great Captures!
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