Complete wedding

Cornelius

I have a complete wedding on this link, Juliana & Frank:
http://jf.coverack.nl/album/
Please take a look and let me know what you think about the pictures.
The couple do not like to pose every picture, they like spontaneous pictures.

Qarik

These are fairly good! Focus, compisitions, exposure are good. The weakest part of your skills in this set is the flash work. Many of the outisde shots could benefits from a touch of fill flash to bring up the shadows around the eyes. The inside shots of the ceremony it appears you are using direct flash? Lots of shadows and harsh light...I think you need a diffuser.

Cornelius

Qarik,

Thank you for your reply. I hate flash and never use a flash outside. If possible I use inside an indirect flash. Sometimes it is not possible and I use a direct flash. One time I have used a diffuser but it fall of sometimes and it make me unsure. I have plans to use a balloon for the flash.
I use an Olympus four thirds camera (because the are small) and a Zuiko pro lens (14-54).

I do not use a big camera anymore because I think it makes people unsure and I find it 'To much'. I do not know how to explain it in English. Most people like wedding pictures but most people do not like to pose and a small camera helps them to relax. I think a big camera is threatening/intimidating.

Kees

Svennie

I consider my flash to be my friend. It gives me light when I need it and, when used properly, gives me a lot of control over the light: power and direction. I can highly recommend learning the full potential of your flash. If the diffuser falls off, get one that fits ;-) It is a very handy tool.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'big camera'. I've shot beautiful portraits of people at parties with a D70s and 70-200/2.8 or with a 18-200VR and SB-800 flash. These are very large setups, but they had no idea I was taking the shots ;-)

Oh, just a tip: maybe it is a good idea to check the jpeg-compression of the photos: there are a lot of artifacts visible, which doesn't do your pictures any justice.

angevin1

Cornelius wrote: »

I have a complete wedding on this link, Juliana & Frank:
http://jf.coverack.nl/album/
Please take a look and let me know what you think about the pictures.
The couple do not like to pose every picture, the like spontaneous pictures.

High Marks for the Lucky Couple! They chose a Pub for their Nuptials!

And I totally love the Bubbles idea too!

It looks as if you are regularly perhaps a portrait photographer, and some of these are very nicely done portraits: tack Sharp and comp good too.

On the inside shots, metering for the ambient light would have helped get the light level up a bit.

I think if they were not into posing, then they got what they wanted. But I also think it would have served them to pose some for you, because several shots show that there were interesting places to pose. And posing does not mean looking into the camera with smile attached, it can mean simply sharing a moment as if the camera were not there~

thanks for posting.

Cornelius

Svennie wrote: »

I consider my flash to be my friend. It gives me light when I need it and, when used properly, gives me a lot of control over the light: power and direction. I can highly recommend learning the full potential of your flash. If the diffuser falls off, get one that fits ;-) It is a very handy tool.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'big camera'. I've shot beautiful portraits of people at parties with a D70s and 70-200/2.8 or with a 18-200VR and SB-800 flash. These are very large setups, but they had no idea I was taking the shots ;-)

Oh, just a tip: maybe it is a good idea to check the jpeg-compression of the photos: there are a lot of artifacts visible, which doesn't do your pictures any justice.

Maybe it's a good idea to learn something about flash. My 'camera technics' books are very old. I only buy books with pictures of famous photographers (or less famous).

The sample pictures are rendered with JAlbum and the pictures are to much compressed. Today I use Apple's Iweb and that gives better pictures. An Olympus E 4xx camera can gives 2.7 compressed jpg pictures and the are very good of quality. The most people prefer jpg pictures. I give always the pictures on a dvd.

What I mean with a 'big camera' is this; some people that never has posed for a photographer see a big canon or Nikon camera with a big tele-zoom lens as a threat. An Olympus E-4xx with a Zuiko 14-54 looks more friendlier.