First wedding second shooting, tell me if I suck(30 images)
First I want to say how much I appreciate all the information and techniques shared by everyone here, it's such a great wealth of knowledge and I'm truly grateful. I was lucky enough to be able to second shoot this wedding in a beautiful location in the Poconos this past weekend. I tried to prepare as much as possible, reading as much as I could and taking in tonnes of beautiful imagery of types of shots I'd like to do.
The wedding party were all great people and a lot of fun and I had a bunch of creative, romantic and fun ideas to shoot for the B&G and the wedding party. The primary photog was all about doing them as well after we got all the formals done. We were only able to do bridal party shots between the ceremony and the reception and unfortunately I didn't get to do any of the shots I had hoped to. They kept adding more family shots and the family they wanted were taking a long time to round up. It also didn't help that the bridal party had started drinking early and often before the wedding, but I can't blame them they were having a good time. The primary photog asked a few times during the reception if we could do more shots of them but they needed time to get around to all the guests still, so what can you do.
So here are a bunch of shots (I hope not too many!) I would love some critique on... In my minds eye the style of my shots are different then what I see here. I didn't get different angles of things like the dress and more creative shots during the ceremony and throughout. I guess being my first time everything I wanted to do didn't translate into what I did and the shots I took. What a great time it was though!
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The wedding party were all great people and a lot of fun and I had a bunch of creative, romantic and fun ideas to shoot for the B&G and the wedding party. The primary photog was all about doing them as well after we got all the formals done. We were only able to do bridal party shots between the ceremony and the reception and unfortunately I didn't get to do any of the shots I had hoped to. They kept adding more family shots and the family they wanted were taking a long time to round up. It also didn't help that the bridal party had started drinking early and often before the wedding, but I can't blame them they were having a good time. The primary photog asked a few times during the reception if we could do more shots of them but they needed time to get around to all the guests still, so what can you do.
So here are a bunch of shots (I hope not too many!) I would love some critique on... In my minds eye the style of my shots are different then what I see here. I didn't get different angles of things like the dress and more creative shots during the ceremony and throughout. I guess being my first time everything I wanted to do didn't translate into what I did and the shots I took. What a great time it was though!
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Comments
#7 is scary tough ... looks like hair is growing out of her mouth
#20 Too bad you have that huge sun flare on your pic. I am a bit fan of sun flare, but this is too much .... if you do it very carefully you can clone it out, I'd give it a try
Your comps are good... focus good... conversions good... The one general thing that I can see to work on is skin tones in your color shots. They seem a bit red, which will happen when you bump the contrast. Check out the Dgrin tutorials on skintones, and it will help a bunch!
But seriously... for a first go at it, you did stellar!
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hahaha yes I thought #7 was a funny capture with the extension in her mouth
I agree about #20, the flare wasn't intended, I'll give it a go to try and clone it out... wish me luck
Thanks for the heads up about the red, I know I have that tutorial bookmarked somewhere I'll have get on it.
I really appreciate that you took a look and commented because I very much admire both of yours work.
Thanks sser, all on camera bounced off the ceiling
Matt
Bodies: Canon 5d mkII, 5d, 40d
Lenses: 24-70 f2.8L, 70-200 f4.0L, 135 f2L, 85 f1.8, 50 1.8, 100 f2.8 macro, Tamron 28-105 f2.8
Flash: 2x 580 exII, Canon ST-E2, 2x Pocket Wizard flexTT5, and some lower end studio strobes
Worked great
Interested in hearing cc
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Thanks Kevin! yes I was the second shooter
Thanks! and thanks to Heather as well for pointing out the red tones, I was able to fix them using the method from the link above. Here is one of the shots corrected...
Thank you for all the comments, critique and support from my first try at this.
Much MUCH better!