Past few weddings (sorry more than a few pics)

cj99si

Sort of caught up at the moment (till Friday) So I figured I'd post the last few weddings. It was kind of tough to pick from several thousand images:eek1

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Please let me know what you think.

erson83

Simply stated: jaw dropping. True professional work plain and simple

jbakerphoto

FANTASTIC!!! is all I can say......Good job

39 is the only one I can come with a grip about....It sorta looks like he has 1 leg.....Also not really likeing the treatment.....FWIW

The rest just blow me a way......

Swartzy

Beautiful work. How wonderful it is to have a bridal session with no one around in beautiful settings.....at sunset even...with a full moon?...sure would be a switch around here. I love your color processing on some of theses...very elegant. The conversions of the dresses are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

cdonovan

lovely lovely lovely! I adore the rings in the shell, absolutely BEAUTIFUL!

lisap

These are beautiful. Love the B&W, love the colour. And I really smiled when I saw #43.

Thanks for sharing

-- Lisa P.

cj99si

erson83 wrote:

Simply stated: jaw dropping. True professional work plain and simple

Thanks I appreciate that!

cj99si

unclejon wrote:

FANTASTIC!!! is all I can say......Good job

39 is the only one I can come with a grip about....It sorta looks like he has 1 leg.....Also not really likeing the treatment.....FWIW

The rest just blow me a way......

Hey thanks,

#39? from the outside of the church? You dont like the treatment of that one or all of them?

cj99si

Swartzy wrote:

Beautiful work. How wonderful it is to have a bridal session with no one around in beautiful settings.....at sunset even...with a full moon?...sure would be a switch around here. I love your color processing on some of theses...very elegant. The conversions of the dresses are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

People were trying to be around, I got rid of them

Ive had some pretty good settings for the last few weddings either at the church, on the way to the reception, or at the reception itself. The first wedding all those shots were pretty much in the rain. the second wedding was on and island, we got lucky and got the formals done fast. A severe thunder storm blew through right after. The sunset shots at the end of the dock were after it cleared up and were just about to jump on the ferry (thats when I caught the moon shot). The last wedding the church was just stunning, and that sunset shot with them I had to beg for to get just before they walked into the reception(they were happy they took the time)

Thanks for looking!

cj99si

cdonovan wrote:

lovely lovely lovely! I adore the rings in the shell, absolutely BEAUTIFUL!

Thats my wife's favorite as well. Thanks!

cj99si

lisap wrote:

These are beautiful. Love the B&W, love the colour. And I really smiled when I saw #43.

Thanks for sharing

-- Lisa P.

Thank you very much, #43 is the mother of the brides favorite, probably obvious but the flower girl is the brides sister.

jbakerphoto

cj99si wrote:

Hey thanks,

#39? from the outside of the church? You dont like the treatment of that one or all of them?

OOOOPPPPS I like 39 ....I thought it was great....very unique......and very cool.....Think i was going to say good things about it and then got destracted....

I meant 34..Bride going in the church with groom behind her...I just didnt like the treatment on that one only...FWIW.....So sorry....

Treatment on the rest is ....

cj99si

unclejon wrote:

OOOOPPPPS I like 39 ....I thought it was great....very unique......and very cool.....Think i was going to say good things about it and then got destracted....

I meant 34..Bride going in the church with groom behind her...I just didnt like the treatment on that one only...FWIW.....So sorry....

Treatment on the rest is ....

ahh that makes sense now. Thats the father of the bride, That shot was and accident(waaay over exposed) but I still liked it, It looks better in B&W(the one I meant to post). Thanks for the comments. Feed back is great. I get distracted pretty easy myself, I should be editing wedding photos, but im on Dgrin

Dee

We are hoping my daughter will get married in a couple of years, so I'm absorbing all this wedding photographer stuff as much as I can.

Since we live on the coast and the ocean/beach will probably be a theme, I adore your rings in the shell shot. I applaud the bride's choice of an emerald cut diamond too, . I'm going to borrow that from you.

jupalada

Some lovely work there! I'm very impressed...

Shima

These are all amazing and inspiring! Always love seeing work that makes me want to continue pushing myself to that next level

heatherfeather

Well, I finally sat through all of them loading and what can I say but.... it was worth the wait!!! Great captures! Great moments! Georgious colors and conversions. I am loving all of them, pure and simple.

Clickr_Grl

#12 Just WOW!
#24 Simply Gorgeous and
#30 what a fun shot! great comp!

Such beautiful articulate work! You should be proud!

You are the type of photographer that someone like me only hopes to be someday. I wish I could find someone like this that would take me on shoots with them. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful work!

mmroden

These are just amazing. I was browsing after finishing a wedding myself, just to see the ideas from other people-- and man, do I feel pedestrian after seeing these shots. Really fantastic work! I'll be using your shots for inspiration, that's for certain.

Arvan

You are soooooo good at this!

jhelms

Those are awesome - roughly how much tiem do you spend in post-processing for most of your final pics?

cj99si

Dee wrote:

We are hoping my daughter will get married in a couple of years, so I'm absorbing all this wedding photographer stuff as much as I can.

Since we live on the coast and the ocean/beach will probably be a theme, I adore your rings in the shell shot. I applaud the bride's choice of an emerald cut diamond too, . I'm going to borrow that from you.

Borrow all you want:D Thanks!

cj99si

jupalada wrote:

Some lovely work there! I'm very impressed...

Thank you very much!

cj99si

Shima wrote:

These are all amazing and inspiring! Always love seeing work that makes me want to continue pushing myself to that next level

Thats why I like this site, people on here really push you to do better work. Thanks for that comment!

cj99si

heatherfeather wrote:

Well, I finally sat through all of them loading and what can I say but.... it was worth the wait!!! Great captures! Great moments! Georgious colors and conversions. I am loving all of them, pure and simple.

Nice, Glad you took the time to look! Your not on *dial up* are you:uhoh

cj99si

Clickr_Grl wrote:

#12 Just WOW!
#24 Simply Gorgeous and
#30 what a fun shot! great comp!

Such beautiful articulate work! You should be proud!

You are the type of photographer that someone like me only hopes to be someday. I wish I could find someone like this that would take me on shoots with them. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful work!

Come on up here to Maine

Thanks im glad you liked them!

cj99si

mmroden wrote:

These are just amazing. I was browsing after finishing a wedding myself, just to see the ideas from other people-- and man, do I feel pedestrian after seeing these shots. Really fantastic work! I'll be using your shots for inspiration, that's for certain.

Thanks MM! I checked yours out, those are awesome! I like it when people post shots of the actual wedding!

cj99si

Arvan wrote:

You are soooooo good at this!

Glad you liked them Arvan, Thanks!

cj99si

jhelms wrote:

Those are awesome - roughly how much tiem do you spend in post-processing for most of your final pics?

Hey John, Ive been thinking about the time I spend lately, and I think for about 200-300+ photos I spend around 20 hrs in PP. maybe 30 or 40 get "Work" , 150-200 just the basics (crop, levels, sharpen, dodge here burn there etc..) and I'm picky so only like 10-20 strait out of the camera(usually reception shots)

This is all in CS3 so I bet I could cut some time off when I get familiar with LR2 (trying to get caught up so I can try it)

This is just PP time though add 5+ hrs to sifting through the junk(theres lots) and upload time.

I really need a new computer though, this one slows me down a lot (5 year old Dell) so there's a little bit of load and pound the keyboard/slam the mouse time involved:cry

Hope thats what your looking for.

jhelms

cj99si wrote:

Hey John, Ive been thinking about the time I spend lately, and I think for about 200-300+ photos I spend around 20 hrs in PP. maybe 30 or 40 get "Work" , 150-200 just the basics (crop, levels, sharpen, dodge here burn there etc..) and I'm picky so only like 10-20 strait out of the camera(usually reception shots)

This is all in CS3 so I bet I could cut some time off when I get familiar with LR2 (trying to get caught up so I can try it)

This is just PP time though add 5+ hrs to sifting through the junk(theres lots) and upload time.

I really need a new computer though, this one slows me down a lot (5 year old Dell) so there's a little bit of load and pound the keyboard/slam the mouse time involved:cry

Hope thats what your looking for.

That's exactly what I was looking for! I was hoping it wasn't "pretty much this is what they looked like out of the camera" response that I've gotten here and there. But that's about what I was thinking for timeline of everything. thanks!

mmmatt

this is certainly very inspiring work! Believe it or not #7 is my favorite. That image says a lot to me. It is such a treat to have work like this to look at.


Matt