Wedding from this Weekend...

elizabeth_Luna

Critique please I am still learning here! 1st wedding this month.

*** What could of I have done better? when its cloudy etc



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2 Dress over exposed - the day was very cloudy and thought I could get away with it using fill flash I was wrong! :scratch:cry



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4 - Overview



5- They sat the entire ceremony

6-

elizabeth_Luna

I see folks looking, no thoughts?

Camara Photography, LLC

Nice shots, but I would personally use a wider aperture (or longer lens) to blur the background and put the emphasis on the couple. # 6 looks like they're posing for someone else. #1's a winner.

elizabeth_Luna

Camara Photography, LLC wrote:

Nice shots, but I would personally use a wider aperture (or longer lens) to blur the background and put the emphasis on the couple. # 6 looks like they're posing for someone else. #1's a winner.

Thank you... Yah I was using a 17/55 and 50 1.8 what lens do you recommended? I am going to purchase a MarkII soon though. would the 50 1.8 be wider in that case?

Camara Photography, LLC

elizabeth_Luna wrote:

Thank you... Yah I was using a 17/55 and 50 1.8 what lens do you recommended? I am going to purchase a MarkII soon though. would the 50 1.8 be wider in that case?

I've never used the 50 1.8, but my two main lenses are the 70-200 2.8 IS, and the 24-70L, on a 5d.

kwcrow

Actually cloudy is the best condition for wedding photos. I agree with the previous poster, you need to blur the background more with less depth of field.
If you used the 1.8 then I don't think that you had it set at the 1.8 aperture. That aperture should definitely blur the background more on some of these shots. Also I think that some of your whites are blown out more than need be. Even if you are going for a hi-key type picture, you should try to get more detail in the wedding gown. If you shot in RAW, you might be able to use the shadow highlight tool to get some detail back (or recovery in lightroom).
I have never done a wedding before, so take my comments with a grain of salt. Otherwise you caught them in some nice poses and nice expressions.

MissB

I agree... #1 is definatly a winner... perhaps because it feels less contrived than the rest of the examples. I use the 50mm 1.8 more often than anything else in my stash because it give the most crisp and beautiful natural light images of all my lenses... not that I have that huge of a stash (plus its really affordable)

A little more depth of field would give the photos more dimention. Get in closer and open up your aperature this would give you a shallow DOF and might also help with light issues you may be having.

HUGS

Jeff_Milo

For some of the formals i break out my 50 1.2, but i am not a huge fan of the fixed lenses, just me. For the ceremony and reception i go back and forth between my 28-70 2.8L and 70-200 2.8L IS and find that I use the latter more than any other.

bloomphotog

#1 is a great shot. My first reaction when looking at 2/3 was, wow...that's some seriously deep DOP! I would stop down to like f/4 and below for most any shot. Every shot should have a headline, much like the front page of a magazine. When everything is in focus, the shot actually loses it's storytelling clarity. Shallow DOP will significantly the drama, and "focus" of the image, keeping your viewers in tune with the moment you captured.

The 50 1.8 will create immensely shallow DOP, too shallow if you're not careful. I would take out your bag of lenses, put the camera on Aperture priority and just do some test. Start at f/8 and go all the way down to wide-open. It will really help you to get to learn your lenses and their DOP characteristics.

elizabeth_Luna

bloomphotog wrote:

#1 is a great shot. My first reaction when looking at 2/3 was, wow...that's some seriously deep DOP! I would stop down to like f/4 and below for most any shot. Every shot should have a headline, much like the front page of a magazine. When everything is in focus, the shot actually loses it's storytelling clarity. Shallow DOP will significantly the drama, and "focus" of the image, keeping your viewers in tune with the moment you captured.

The 50 1.8 will create immensely shallow DOP, too shallow if you're not careful. I would take out your bag of lenses, put the camera on Aperture priority and just do some test. Start at f/8 and go all the way down to wide-open. It will really help you to get to learn your lenses and their DOP characteristics.

Thank you so much for the pointers I really appreciate you all....

elizabeth_Luna

MissB wrote:

I agree... #1 is definatly a winner... perhaps because it feels less contrived than the rest of the examples. I use the 50mm 1.8 more often than anything else in my stash because it give the most crisp and beautiful natural light images of all my lenses... not that I have that huge of a stash (plus its really affordable)

A little more depth of field would give the photos more dimention. Get in closer and open up your aperature this would give you a shallow DOF and might also help with light issues you may be having.

HUGS

Thanks you very good advice!

Shima

I like #1 and #2 but I think that her dress is overblown, it would be nice if you can pull back some detail. Also, I like 6, but it feels like the tree is growing out of her head just from where she's standing. Might want to be careful of positioning for that in the future.