New to Weddings...

Megs14

I have done a couple weddings for friends, very laid back. Can I get some opinions on the photos? I have 3 other people asking me to shoot their weddings and want to get other photographer opinions. Thanks.

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Agnieszka

Hi there and welcome to dgrin. Already looking forward to seeing more of your pics, here's how you can post images in a post:

- First of all you need to upload them to a gallery. Do you have a smugmug account?
- If you have them in an online gallery, check out this link, it explains everything step by step:

>>>> http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1083138

Let me know if you have any questions!

Megs14

Agnieszka wrote:

Hi there and welcome to dgrin. Already looking forward to seeing more of your pics, here's how you can post images in a post:

- First of all you need to upload them to a gallery. Do you have a smugmug account?
- If you have them in an online gallery, check out this link, it explains everything step by step:

>>>> http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1083138

Let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks for the help! Hope to get some critiques here.

TheHitched

I don't know.
are these the best images from that event?

if so then perhaps consider educating yourself a bit more, especially if you are taking on paying clients.
to be honest, i just didn't see anything that would make me go "Wow".

Also look around at what others are doing, and remember for when you shoot next.

Shima

Hi and welcome to dgrin / the wedding section!

You may wish to consider having your watermark in one of the corners of the photo instead of smack in the middle. For critiquing it's easier when we don't have a face covered by watermark, but that's just my personal thought on that.

I really like 1 & 3 a lot.

#2 I wish we had a little more of the hand on the left in the photo.

#4 is fun, I love doing angle shots, but i think the angle may be a tad on the excessive side.

#5 love where you were going with this, but would have preferred if neither of their bodies was cropped.

#6 make sure you've got the whole top of the flower in it, the way it is framed right my eyes go to the vase and the stems, and less to the actual flowers themselves. Good idea, just needs a little tweaking to frame it better.

Megs14

Shima wrote:

Hi and welcome to dgrin / the wedding section!

You may wish to consider having your watermark in one of the corners of the photo instead of smack in the middle. For critiquing it's easier when we don't have a face covered by watermark, but that's just my personal thought on that.

I really like 1 & 3 a lot.

#2 I wish we had a little more of the hand on the left in the photo.

#4 is fun, I love doing angle shots, but i think the angle may be a tad on the excessive side.

#5 love where you were going with this, but would have preferred if neither of their bodies was cropped.

#6 make sure you've got the whole top of the flower in it, the way it is framed right my eyes go to the vase and the stems, and less to the actual flowers themselves. Good idea, just needs a little tweaking to frame it better.

Thanks for the help, really appreciate your comments!

joshhuntnm

welcome to dgrin. Great place to learn.

Nice shots.

Cmau

Hi and welcome to dgrin (though that seems kinda silly for me to say since I am also pretty new here).

I agree with pretty much all of the things Shima said. I have two main suggestions that come from looking at all the images as a whole.

1. Try to include more of the context for the photo to help the viewer get an idea what's going on. At the very least don't crop people's bodies/important subjects. Going in close is fine for detail shots like the flowers, but again, the crop would have been better if some more of the top of the flowers had been included.

2. To get that "wow" factor discussed above, consider getting at least one faster lens (f2.8 or lower). Not only will it help you when you come up against the inevitable low-light problems that wedding photography has in spades, but large apertures will help to blur the backgrounds in your images and isolate the subjects more effectively. If you're a Canon or Nikon shooter, a 50mm f1.8 lens is a great place to start if you don't already have one. It's cheap and you'll get an incredible amount of use out of it. On a crop body it's a great lens for portraits.