Favorite Bridal Portraits

Shudderz

I know there is a thread for "favorite wedding photo" in general. But I'd love to see a gathering of just your favorite Bridal Portraits.

I'll start........this is from the wedding I shot last weekend at a Victorian home/garden. With and without "special treatment"

Swartzy

Ok, I'll play



Have others but I think these are cool uptop overlooking St. Paul (the city..)

SyncMaster

my sister

Scott_Quier

I can play that game tooo
How about this one....


She got swarmed by a bunch of knats or something

Can't choose between these two...

This one has such a regal feel to it.


This one could use a bit more work - blurring the background a bit.

david_h

A couple of mine

crockett

Shudderz,

Beautiful Photo.
I really like the "effect". Care to share how you accomplished that?

Thanks.

Shudderz

crockett wrote:

Shudderz,

Beautiful Photo.
I really like the "effect". Care to share how you accomplished that?

Thanks.

Thanks for the compliment.

While at WPPI this past year, I purchased a great set of actions.....Totally Rad Actions. I love the retouching action that it includes.....this uses one of the special effect actions (I think the "Rusty Cage" action) included in the set. In their set of "Caffeine Jolt" actions.

I know they just released a new set of actions as well.....I'm anxious to see what's included, just haven't had time to look yet.

urbanaries

david_h wrote:

A couple of mine

Wow! Gorgeous!!! Love the colors, the detail, the lighting, her "Liv Tyler" expression...impressive.

urbanaries

Great thread!! I'll definitely play.

david_h

urbanaries wrote:

Wow! Gorgeous!!! Love the colors, the detail, the lighting, her "Liv Tyler" expression...impressive.

Thanks - I had to look at a few Liv Tyler images to see what you mean

heatherfeather

Fun thread! Loving all these ideas!

Here are some:




Oops, just realized that none of mine are full body shots like the rest of you. Darn, I'll just be different. (It is sure hard to choose favorites. Ended up going with the first few favorites, instead of absolute absolute favorites since it takes too long!)

theNOIZ

Hopefully My First and Last Bridal Photos
I don't know how you wedding photographers do it. You make it look easy, but now I know how hard it really is.

Montec

I used this one with some personal text on the right, I erased it for this post but you can see where it would go.

bham

A few of mine

picturegirl

david_h wrote:

A couple of mine

Do you mind sharing your techniques on the 1st photo?

ShannonHeat

Some of mine.

1)

2)

3)

david_h

picturegirl wrote:

Do you mind sharing your techniques on the 1st photo?

No problem, my workflow is pretty simple.

I do the RAW conversion and adjust for exposure and white balance in Lightroom.

Then in Photoshop, there are two tools I use on just about all my images. First, Technicolor Dream World from the Boutwell's Totally Rad Actions to bring out the colours.

Then I've made an action using the LucisArt plug in that I use to bring out detail.

I do everything in layers so it is easy to adjust the recipes to taste. I usually have the opacity of the layers pretty low because a little goes a long way with some of these effects. I might do a little dodging and burning too, but I don't think I did for this image.

Finally there's a vignette followed by my frame and logo action.

I've automated this process for online proofs and also for the proof images that clients get on their DVDs. It's only images used in albums, prints or my blog (such as these ones) that normally get individual attention once I leave Lightroom.

I hope this helps.

quark

A few of mine.

KTBoom2006-E510

This one is from my first Wedding a couple weeks ago

picturegirl

david_h wrote:

No problem, my workflow is pretty simple.

I do the RAW conversion and adjust for exposure and white balance in Lightroom.

Then in Photoshop, there are two tools I use on just about all my images. First, Technicolor Dream World from the Boutwell's Totally Rad Actions to bring out the colours.

Then I've made an action using the LucisArt plug in that I use to bring out detail.

I do everything in layers so it is easy to adjust the recipes to taste. I usually have the opacity of the layers pretty low because a little goes a long way with some of these effects. I might do a little dodging and burning too, but I don't think I did for this image.

Finally there's a vignette followed by my frame and logo action.

I've automated this process for online proofs and also for the proof images that clients get on their DVDs. It's only images used in albums, prints or my blog (such as these ones) that normally get individual attention once I leave Lightroom.

I hope this helps.

Thanks so much for sharing

picturegirl

Here are a few of my favorites. Not much fancy photo shot done on any of them.

This was taken in complete shade with some sunlight in the background
#1


Natural light, window on the left side of the photo, I think I used the reflector but it didn't do much here
#2


#3


I realize there are some shadows on her arm. I really like the purple flowers in the background
#4

Agnieszka

Boy, that's a tough one ;o)

Here are a few of my favorites from this year:

1:


2. This one is actually from the last weekend:


3:


4:


5:


6:


7:


8:


9: (Have an other version of this photo with more of a vignette ... / the colors blend in a bit too much in this version ....)


10:


11:


12:

Agnieszka

david_h wrote:

Thanks - I had to look at a few Liv Tyler images to see what you mean

I agree, what a fun style!!

heatherfeather

Are #10 & #11 sisters? Either that or the same girl changed gowns for you a couple times. They gotta be at least related.

These are all awesome of course & I love your style too. Fav is #6. Well done Angie.

Agnieszka

heatherfeather wrote:

Are #10 & #11 sisters? Either that or the same girl changed gowns for you a couple times. They gotta be at least related.

These are all awesome of course & I love your style too. Fav is #6. Well done Angie.

Haha, that must be the angle, the actually look really different (nope, they're not related)

Thanks Heather

(Sorry for posting so many photos ....)

Scott_Quier

Agnieszka wrote:

(Sorry for posting so many photos ....)

I'm glad you did - wonderful work! Something to aspire to! A target to aim for!

Agnieszka

Scott_Quier wrote:

I'm glad you did - wonderful work! Something to aspire to! A target to aim for!

Oh, thanks Scott, means a lot!

cdonovan

Scott_Quier wrote:

I'm glad you did - wonderful work! Something to aspire to! A target to aim for!

I'll double ditto that. They are absolutely stunning!

Agnieszka

cdonovan wrote:

I'll double ditto that. They are absolutely stunning!

Thanks cdonovan! ... having beautiful brides helps

dangin

some of my favorites:

jupalada

Love this one...