Photos from my first wedding.

ADMIT Photography

Well I had the privilege of documenting the wedding or Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Maynard this past weekend. Overall I believe I did a good job for it being my first wedding. I'd like some of your thoughts.
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If you wish to see more I'd be happy to post some. I had to many to choose from. Overall I ended up with 351 images from this great event!

jeffreaux2

Looks like you did a pretty good job!


Thanks for sharing.:D

ADMIT Photography

Thank you for the comment on my photos! Anyone else have some feedback?

Here is a link to the rest of the photos if you wouldn't mind taking a look. I have another wedding in 3 weeks and want try and improve!

tijoseph

I'm no pro, but I know what it is like to get no feedback, so I'll give you some of mine.

Good job on your first wedding. It looks like they were pretty comfortable with you.

To me, it seems like alot of your pictures are a bit underexposed. Also, many could use some adjustment in curves, to boost the contrast a bit. Some of the pictures in your gallery are a little low on contrast.

Finally, I would be concerned with noise. I know nothing about Nikon, and a d80 or your d200, but looking at alot of your pictures, original size, the noise is really taking away from any possibility of your pictures being sharp. Even at ISO, 320, your noise level was way up there.

I'd also try reducing that noise somehow, either in lightroom or noise ninja, or maybe even upgrading to a better camera.

Hope this helps, only my 2 cents!

Blurmore

I think you did a good job for your first wedding. Some of you poses are a little static and to straight on to the camera. The reception stuff shows that you are not totally comfortable with your flash. Some you pulled out of deep underexposure and it shows. Some have bounce flash, some direct, my advice is to find a flash technique for a location that works overall, and keep it, it will help with your continuity. By these crops I'm guessing you are a 4/3 guy, I have no comment on that. I don't understand how anyone can compose dramatically, or for impact with a 4/3 the frame just isn't long enough. Shooting 4/3 reminds me of shooting with a Hasselblad 6x6 and constantly being aware of crop lines, it did not allow for very imaginative composition...but thats neither here nor there. Before your next I'd put some time into mastering that flash, and using fill flash outdoors.

lilmomma

I'm not a pro and have only second shot twice but I think you did a pretty good job for your first time.

The one thing that bothers me though is that in a number of the outdoor shots it looks like the focus fell behind the subject. I'm still very much learning here as well but one of the most important things to me is that the focal points are where I want them. To me it could be the most awesome shot i've ever taken but if it not in focus it goes to the trash.

Other than that, I agree with the other responses.


I've never been the primary shooter but weddings are tough aren't they?

FedererPhoto

It LOOKS like you had a solidly overcast day. Given that, I'd expect you to NAIL the exposure perfectly and have almost perfect consistency in your exposures while outside.

This is easiest done (given super-consistent lighting, the likes of which it looks like you had) by going to manual, imho. With any of the auto modes, you risk over/under exposing based on composition.

2 cents, deposited.

ADMIT Photography

FedererPhoto wrote:

It LOOKS like you had a solidly overcast day. Given that, I'd expect you to NAIL the exposure perfectly and have almost perfect consistency in your exposures while outside.

This is easiest done (given super-consistent lighting, the likes of which it looks like you had) by going to manual, imho. With any of the auto modes, you risk over/under exposing based on composition.

2 cents, deposited.

Thanks for all the imput. The lighting was not very consistent that day as it kept moving from cloudy and overcast to sunny while I was taking the photos.

I agree I need to work on my flash indoors. The lighting in there was not very good to start with. The shots where I was using direct flash was because the bounce flash was not doing it for me.

Overall I'm happy with the photos. Granted there are areas I need to improve and I'll be the first to admit it.

Any other critiques are welcome.

Thanks for your time.

MelMcClain

Not bad. A couple of edits in photoshop could help with a few to make them more vibrant. I like #10 but wish they were all in focus. Especially love the groomsman's pose on the right side.