May 1st Wedding, trying some new post processing

Shima

My May 1st wedding this past Friday kicked off my spring/summer/fall 2009 wedding season. I knew the groom from an organization we were both in during college (though we went to different colleges, we met at regional meetings) and so I was thrilled to be able to do the photos for his wedding when he asked. I also started doing some new style of post processing that I hadn't previously dabbled in (I recently discovered the magical world of Lightroom presets, yeah I know, I was behind the curve, lol). Plus their church was just stunning inside! Anyway I'm really pleased with the results and I hope you will be too!

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More photos that I loved here: http://photos.cathoffman.com/gallery/7083913_DbXEY

heatherfeather

Oooh love your ring shots. They are stunning as always! You can come shoot for me and just do ring shots all day long okay?

Where did you get your presets? Loving what they did- really dark and vibrant. Nicely done!


Love 2, 3 & 4

JulieLawsonPhotography

I agree... I just love the processing! This is such a great series. That church is breathtaking too.

Moogle Pepper

#10 the rings look like Frogs perched on a lily! Well.. as a once aspiring biologist, I thought that was cool.

Pretty sweet series, Cat! That couple found a gorgeous church to get married in! Using presets does make things a lot more interesting and, well faster, in LR.


I often wonder, this might not have much relevance, if anyone had used t/s lenses for the actual wedding ceremony. Maybe there was and I haven't seen them, but visuals like #11 and #12 would make me want to try!

beetle8

The lighting in number 12 could not be more perfect.

Ed911

Very nice images and post processing. I'm on board...these are great. I know your clients will be very happy. Thanks for sharing.

studio1972

Hi,

Really like the colour on these. Images 11 and 12 are really nice and bright, just wondering what settings you used for those?

Sarah

zoomer

Presets rule! I need to get some...
Really nice series, lots of pop in the shots as well as creative compositions.

That church was amazing and the color and exposure really were nice on those shots.

8 the color looks a bit off.
9 is a nice shot. You may think about cloning out the light colored vertical stripe in the middle of it.
10 looks like there is an out of focus bud covering the ring.
1 Maybe crop a smidge off the bottom.
4 is a cool shot but don't put the couple right behind the bouquet
2 and 6 are really nice shots compositionally, if the couple were interacting in some way instead of just standing there looking at you those would really be awesome shots.
3 the background is pretty distracting with the large black branch going through both their heads

Still a very nice set of shots, I hope I didn't sound like a downer. I don't normally give detailed critique but since these are so nice and you have obvious talent I am just trying to help out. Please take my constructive critique in the positive tone it was intended.
Good work.

Shima

heatherfeather wrote:

You can come shoot for me and just do ring shots all day long okay?

Where did you get your presets? Loving what they did- really dark and vibrant. Nicely done!

I'll come shoot for you anytime! ^_^ I googled for most of the presets, though a couple I modified and made my own variations, most were straight from what I found for free via my googling. Some of my favorites I got from here: http://www.presetsheaven.com/2009/02/19/8-epic-lightroom-presets-for-weddings/ but I have several others as well that I used. Wonderland for example has some nice free presets, of which I liked their "a-game" preset (though I tweaked it a bit for my uses)...but yeah the PH Weddings presets definitely my favorite batch of presets.

Moogle Pepper wrote:

I often wonder, this might not have much relevance, if anyone had used t/s lenses for the actual wedding ceremony.

I don't own any T/S lenses, but that would certainly be interesting to try! My really wide shots in the church are 35 f1.4/L

studio1972 wrote:

Images 11 and 12 are really nice and bright, just wondering what settings you used for those?

11) 5D Mark II: ISO 1600 f3.2 1/50
12) 40D: ISO 400 f2.2 1/80

zoomer wrote:

I don't normally give detailed critique but since these are so nice and you have obvious talent I am just trying to help out. Please take my constructive critique in the positive tone it was intended.

Thanks, lots of little things I hadn't thought of here... as for your comment about #2 where you wanted them to interact more, is this better?

Agnieszka

Beautiful images Cat! Love them all ... and thanks for sharing the preset link, downloading it as we speak

They will be thrilled with the pics!! Congrats

elizabeth_Luna

I got my Presets from OnOne Software site - You can download them from there.

Shima

Agnieszka wrote:

Beautiful images Cat! Love them all ... and thanks for sharing the preset link, downloading it as we speak

They will be thrilled with the pics!! Congrats

Thanks, let me know how you like the presets, I found them a lot of fun to work with and plan to eventually start tweaking and creating some of my own variations.

Shima

elizabeth_Luna wrote:

I got my Presets from OnOne Software site - You can download them from there.

Hm, haven't tried those out, but I think I'll give them a try later. I got worried when I went to go download them, until I saw the magic words:

"Choose the plug-ins you wish to download below. Download links will be emailed to you instantly. Most downloads are fully functional versions that expire in 30 days except for PhotoPresets which are completely free.Our plug-ins work with Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4 and many work with Lightroom 2 and Aperture 2.1."

Cool

elizabeth_Luna

Yup! you will enjoy them

heatherfeather

Shima wrote:

Hm, haven't tried those out, but I think I'll give them a try later. I got worried when I went to go download them, until I saw the magic words:

"Choose the plug-ins you wish to download below. Download links will be emailed to you instantly. Most downloads are fully functional versions that expire in 30 days except for PhotoPresets which are completely free.Our plug-ins work with Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4 and many work with Lightroom 2 and Aperture 2.1."

Cool

Oh, you got further than I did.... I'll have to go back and get them.

BTW, I got the ones you mentioned and they are fun! I haven't gotten to play with them much but I will I am sure... Thanks for the link, Cat.

Shima

heatherfeather wrote:

Oh, you got further than I did.... I'll have to go back and get them.

BTW, I got the ones you mentioned and they are fun! I haven't gotten to play with them much but I will I am sure... Thanks for the link, Cat.

No problem, I loveeeeeeeee the PH collection of presets.

dank-photo

Really nice set! 4, 9, (even tho the white line is there), 10, and 12 (what a beautiful church!) are my faves...His face looks a little pale in #7, and her smile is a little unnatural/cheesy in #5...just minor things, I know...

I love when the cherry blossoms start to bloom...we have one right out our balcony...LOVE #10!

sherijohnson

excellent

cj99si

I like these shima. that one with them under the stairs is really cool. The PP looks good, what is it(pushed the blacks and a little de-sat?)

Shima

cj99si wrote:

I like these shima. that one with them under the stairs is really cool. The PP looks good, what is it(pushed the blacks and a little de-sat?)

I used one of the PH Wedding Presets for Lightroom actually... Surreal effect or something I think it was? I'm away for work this week, so I'm not near my personal computer until next week

Thanks!

Gary Peterson Photography

Gorgeous...

Shima wrote:

My May 1st wedding this past Friday kicked off my spring/summer/fall 2009 wedding season. I knew the groom from an organization we were both in during college (though we went to different colleges, we met at regional meetings) and so I was thrilled to be able to do the photos for his wedding when he asked. I also started doing some new style of post processing that I hadn't previously dabbled in (I recently discovered the magical world of Lightroom presets, yeah I know, I was behind the curve, lol). Plus their church was just stunning inside! Anyway I'm really pleased with the results and I hope you will be too!

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More photos that I loved here: http://photos.cathoffman.com/gallery/7083913_DbXEY

Absolutely love #7. I know the couple will adore it....and you are right, the venue was stunning...