The lost wedding photos...

mmmatt

OK,
So I get a call from a photographer that I shot for a couple times last year about a wedding that I shot with him. He said he was meeting with the bride about something and she mentioned that she didn't have pictures of her sisters family that I shot. Turns out she didn't get any of the pictures I shot (his error not mine)! So my friend calls me up and asks if I can get them to him to give to her. I of course said yes.

now this job was just a raw shoot for me and he did all the processing on the files, so I hadn't really looked them over that hard. I just scoped out the thumbnails and picked a few for my portfolio thinking I would eventually go back and process them all, but I got busy and never did. Since he was in a pinch I told him I would process them and get them to him ASAP.

So going through these files I found some stuff I shot that I really liked! I should have worked this set up a long time ago. Since I don't have anything new and exciting to show you guys I thought I would show you some of my favorites from the lost wedding. Please forgive the over abundance of black and white... these just simply all screamed for it IMO.

1. I love the motion blur in this





2. Grandma's watchful eye.




3. Pre ceremony




4. The best man holding back his emotions




5. candle lighting




6. Sister of the bride sheds some tears



Thanks for looking!

Matt

filmphoto

Nice set.

I love you black and white conversion - how are you doing that?

mmmatt

Those are actions from the "totally rad" action set. 1, 3, 5 and 6 are "awesome b&w" and 2 and 4 are either "Brooklyn" or "Detroit" I think.

Matt

Swartzy

Isn't it great to re-visit stuff? It's funny how you think, "How did I miss that?"..... #4 tells the whole story! Excellent image. Although I'm not a big fan of so many black and whites (as I see a zillion photogs doing it) but these are done well. Fun stuff Matt.

mmmatt

Swartzy wrote:

Isn't it great to re-visit stuff? It's funny how you think, "How did I miss that?"..... #4 tells the whole story! Excellent image. Although I'm not a big fan of so many black and whites (as I see a zillion photogs doing it) but these are done well. Fun stuff Matt.

Thanks Swartzy. Yeah it is fun to revisit! I actually have one other wedding that is also sitting unprocessed but I don't think it has this kind of stuff in it. Maybe when things ease up for me a bit I will go through it and find a few gems there too. As for the b&w, I tend to convert most of my more documentary style/emotional stuff to b&w. If you saw this whole set you would see that out of the 500 or so shots I used, there are only another 5 or 10 b&w. There was a lot of emotion at this wedding.

Matt

mmmatt

mmmatt wrote:

Those are actions from the "totally rad" action set. 1, 3, 5 and 6 are "awesome b&w" and 2 and 4 are either "Brooklyn" or "Detroit" I think.

Matt

I got a pm asking about actions. For those who don't know what actions are, they are used in Photoshop and some other programs to perform a series of tasks with one click of a button. For instance you can make your own action to put a watermark on a batch of images, or to run a couple of filters together like noise reduction and sharpening. Then it is as simple as push the button a wallah! In many of the actions you have settings within the different layers of the action and some are just do it or don't do it. Totally Rad is a brand of premade actions as is Kubato and I'm sure many others.

Matt