My 3rd Wedding: A few from my first batch initial processing
So my friend is getting married in about a week and a half and just recently needed someone to fill in last minute to take her pictures. We worked something out earlier this month and I was going to take most of the money to buy some goodies I've had my eye on and rent a D700 to test and use as a "backup" and a couple dreamy lenses for the weekend.
In one of my e-mails making arrangements, I strongly encouraged her to set pictures as a priority especially the ones with her and the groom. I told her that carving out some alone time would yield the best results. She called me a couple days ago and asked if I could meet up with just her and the groom and do the pictures yesterday since she was having the trial run of her hair done that day. She thought they wouldn't have people standing around watching, not have the wedding day nerves and really take the time to enjoy it.
I said sure we could do that. But I was going to have to stick with my nifty fifty (I brought my Tamron 28-70 2.8, but didn't even end up using it) for a lot of the shots (had some cool lenses for rental next weekend). It was cold and rainy, but she found a nice restaurant and fortunately they had some gorgeous window light. I put them at a high top table by the windows, they ordered some champagne and I just kind of shot away.
Here are my first few that I've initially processed in Lightroom only. My main goal was to let the natural light speak for itself and not be heavyhanded with the processing. I made just a few minor adjustments to the RAW, but these are close to SOOC.
On a few of them, I took down the clarity a bit to help her skin. I don't have specific skin software and didn't do any photoshop work on the skin.
These are just a few from the set in front of those windows. I'll probably be sharing more later.
Comments & Critique are welcome as always.
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In one of my e-mails making arrangements, I strongly encouraged her to set pictures as a priority especially the ones with her and the groom. I told her that carving out some alone time would yield the best results. She called me a couple days ago and asked if I could meet up with just her and the groom and do the pictures yesterday since she was having the trial run of her hair done that day. She thought they wouldn't have people standing around watching, not have the wedding day nerves and really take the time to enjoy it.
I said sure we could do that. But I was going to have to stick with my nifty fifty (I brought my Tamron 28-70 2.8, but didn't even end up using it) for a lot of the shots (had some cool lenses for rental next weekend). It was cold and rainy, but she found a nice restaurant and fortunately they had some gorgeous window light. I put them at a high top table by the windows, they ordered some champagne and I just kind of shot away.
Here are my first few that I've initially processed in Lightroom only. My main goal was to let the natural light speak for itself and not be heavyhanded with the processing. I made just a few minor adjustments to the RAW, but these are close to SOOC.
On a few of them, I took down the clarity a bit to help her skin. I don't have specific skin software and didn't do any photoshop work on the skin.
These are just a few from the set in front of those windows. I'll probably be sharing more later.
Comments & Critique are welcome as always.
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I'm glad she prioritized for the photos of the two of them! Now she has your pretty pictures
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Excellent photos.
Maybe a little soft focusing on some photos.... just my opinion
Nice job! I love photography but love looking at all sorts of wedding images. Thanks for sharing these!
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I understand what you mean about the focusing. Some I wonder if I might have missed the focus just a smidge with such a narrow aperture and some of that might be because I took down the clarity a bit on some of them to help out her skin a little bit.
I've not familiar with Color Efex Pro. What kind of software is it? I'm a big fan of B&W as well, so I did make sure to convert some. For some reason I only posted color before. Not sure why.
Here's a couple in B&W. (Sorry about the big fat watermark - they're on my smugmug site in a watermarked gallery.)
Having said that, Color Efex Pro is one of the most highly regarded add-on / plug-in programs for Lightroom / Photoshop. I don't know exactly how it works, but it's very popular and at least worth a free trial if you can integrate it into your workflow without adding too much time...
But, good shooting either way! Your friend is lucky to have your photos.
=Matt=
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When it comes to B&W conversions there are a ton of ways / methods / tools to accomplish this.
One of the best plug-ins and easiest to use is Nik Silver Pro II.
Sam