What to do with the girl

joshhuntnm · June 29, 2009

What would you do with the girl sitting looking bored? Crop her? heavy vignette? Leave her? toss the whole pic?

Swartzy · June 29, 2009

The girl isn't bothering me as much as the blue microphone and the yellow B&G with color cast.

Wil Davis · June 29, 2009

Well, you did ask…

The groom isn't looking at the camera, but in a way, that isolates the bride from her new husband, but connects her more with the viewer…

ChatKat · June 29, 2009

Toss it
Josh,

The faces are not in focus. The only thing you might be able to do with it is use it with transparency as a background in an album - and that is an if. I'd hit the X in Lightroom and send it to the recycle bin.

Wil Davis · June 29, 2009

…actually this is the one I meant to send:

Scott_Quier · June 29, 2009

ChatKat wrote:

Josh,

The faces are not in focus. The only thing you might be able to do with it is use it with transparency as a background in an album - and that is an if. I'd hit the X in Lightroom and send it to the recycle bin.

Yup - it's pretty much a DNQ in my book.

elizabeth_Luna · June 29, 2009

Scott_Quier wrote:

Yup - it's pretty much a DNQ in my book.

I personally would toss it.

zoomer · June 29, 2009

I agree it is a toss, not worth saving, she does not look happy at all.

Rello-Fello · June 30, 2009

Wil Davis wrote:

…actually this is the one I meant to send:

Why Toss when you can Crop. as others have so abruptly requested you toss this photo. I say toss when you are out of room on your hard drive.
If you understand the term terabyte then create a folder named scraps or something and give this photo a home for future use. As far as delivering for a wedding, if you have a better shot then of course use that. But if not and you need to deliver then crop right where that flower on the right begins to demand to be included in the frame. See what it looks like for you, play around with a sepia on this one or reduce contrast so we get some details back in the grooms pants and maybe brighten up around the eyes. I mean why have a limitless program like photo shop

and not use it to the fullest.
Just my two cents....

jeffreaux2 · June 30, 2009

I agree with the majority here....

Let it go!

IMO it's a good example of the photographer being in the wrong spot at the wrong time....unless you had another camera on your shoulder with a long enough zoom to properly frame this.

MA-FOTO · June 30, 2009

+1 on tossing it.....

total count to toss = 6.

bdcolen · June 30, 2009

joshhuntnm wrote:

What would you do with the girl sitting looking bored? Crop her? heavy vignette? Leave her? toss the whole pic?

For god's sake keep it! Smiling bride; distracted groom; bored kid; videographers(?) mike; that is a wonderful image that captures the reality of the moment. Great stand-alone photo.

Wil Davis · June 30, 2009

bdcolen wrote:

…snip
Great stand-alone photo.

+1

- Wil

Cantfeelmyfingers · July 2, 2009

toss

Scott_Quier · July 2, 2009

On further consideration, BD has a point. From a photojournalistic point of view, this is a wonderful capture of "the way it really was" and is well worth keeping just for that. I would be very interested to learn what the B&G think of the image though.

Art Scott · July 2, 2009

I know I am in the minority here but i say keep it......it shows how the day was winding down and how some (always do) were getting bored.....it wil be a great laugh in a few years when the flower girl is getting ready for her own wedding and that pic pops up again or at a 20th,30, 0r 50th aniversay and the pic pops up on invitations to a party showing the groom distracted...........yeah it is a keeper.....

joshhuntnm · July 2, 2009

Art Scott wrote:

I know I am in the minority here but i say keep it......it shows how the day was winding down and how some (always do) were getting bored.....it wil be a great laugh in a few years when the flower girl is getting ready for her own wedding and that pic pops up again or at a 20th,30, 0r 50th aniversay and the pic pops up on invitations to a party showing the groom distracted...........yeah it is a keeper.....

I hadn't thought too much about this, but I guess there are two philosophies--
#1 Deliver only the best or
#2 Deliver everything that might be remotely usable.

I tend to go with the later. I figure they can delete as easily as I can. I deliver everything except the really bad shots.

Art Scott · July 2, 2009

joshhuntnm wrote:

I hadn't thought too much about this, but I guess there are two philosophies--
#1 Deliver only the best or
#2 Deliver everything that might be remotely usable.

I tend to go with the later. I figure they can delete as easily as I can. I deliver everything except the really bad shots.

Deliver only the best.

Exactly what do we mean by this phrase. Think about it, tear it apart.....what does this truly mean........

MelMcClain · July 2, 2009

I'd toss and agree with a previous post that if it were zoomed in more to the bride it'd work better.

ChatKat · July 2, 2009

Reputation
Because clients don't always understand good photography, I have come to edit harder. I want to be proud of every photo they show to someone.

Last year I did a Bat Mitzvah. Online I found another photographer who had shot at the same venue. His work was really really terrible. Out of focus and poorly composed, bad lighting too. There is never anytime that I want to be associated with him or his work. If I were to show the marginal work, then I would be concerned that I would be associated with the kind of work I saw online. I don't know if the photographer put it there or if the parents did. I want to be able to price my work well and mediocre work breeds minimal pricing and poor reputation. Anything remotely out of focus isn't good enough to me now. If it can't be ps'ed out, then I am tossing it. I have raised the bar for myself very high.

Just what I am doing for my business model. And I am cleaning out my galleries of things like that too. I only want to show what I want to sell.

MA-FOTO · July 6, 2009

ChatKat wrote:

Because clients don't always understand good photography, I have come to edit harder. I want to be proud of every photo they show to someone.

Last year I did a Bat Mitzvah. Online I found another photographer who had shot at the same venue. His work was really really terrible. Out of focus and poorly composed, bad lighting too. There is never anytime that I want to be associated with him or his work. If I were to show the marginal work, then I would be concerned that I would be associated with the kind of work I saw online. I don't know if the photographer put it there or if the parents did. I want to be able to price my work well and mediocre work breeds minimal pricing and poor reputation. Anything remotely out of focus isn't good enough to me now. If it can't be ps'ed out, then I am tossing it. I have raised the bar for myself very high.

Just what I am doing for my business model. And I am cleaning out my galleries of things like that too. I only want to show what I want to sell.

+1

I had an old pro tell me you are as good as your worst picture.....

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