Jake+Janet

babowc

First, I'd like to ask for some ruthless critiques..
I'm willing to learn!


First time doing a wedding, good thing I had my flash because it was DARK!

Here are some pretty amature snaps, used a 70-200, 16-35, sb26 and seldom 24 1.4 because of backfocusing issues on my D90.

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Any CC is welcomed! I'm not sure about my editing skills just yet. I took a lot more pictures but only had time to edit the ones shown. I was the 3rd shooter, as they hired a company.

design

#3 could have been better if there wasn't somebody holding a phone at the bottom. #4 is a great portrayal of how tiring planning and carrying out a wedding can be!

I like the way that the pictures are left chronological, as if to tell a story.

Qarik

you have captured some good emotion (which is a big plus) but technically you missed. Most of the shots are very underexposed (though you can fix much of that in post prociessing).

babowc

I actually tried to bump up the exposure in PP and I started getting really red skin tones..
how can I work around this? I tried everything and tried reducing vibrance/saturation too

I was also usually bouncing my flash (SB26) on the ceiling most of the time, but should I have used a diffuser and a direct flash? or bumped up the EV?

Qarik

oh dear lord..SB26? I didn't even know what that was when you originally posted it. That thing is ancient..my suggestion would be upgrade that immediately to a SB900 or at least SB700. I don't know if that thing even does the modern preflash for TTL exposure. With a 7 sec recycle time I am betting your poor exposure was due to firing the flash when it is not full charged. 7 sec is eternity. The SB900 recycles in 1.5 sec I think? You have some nice gear but the flash is going to be hold you back in these conditions.

Anyway what is going on is that when you push exposure in post, you get a lot of color noise combined with ambient tungsten you get really red skin tones. You can probably salvage shot like 7 by upping exposure and cooling the WB but not 6 (too far gone).

Mark Dickinson

nice shots for very first!

babowc

Qarik wrote: »

oh dear lord..SB26? I didn't even know what that was when you originally posted it. That thing is ancient..my suggestion would be upgrade that immediately to a SB900 or at least SB700. I don't know if that thing even does the modern preflash for TTL exposure. With a 7 sec recycle time I am betting your poor exposure was due to firing the flash when it is not full charged. 7 sec is eternity. The SB900 recycles in 1.5 sec I think? You have some nice gear but the flash is going to be hold you back in these conditions.

Anyway what is going on is that when you push exposure in post, you get a lot of color noise combined with ambient tungsten you get really red skin tones. You can probably salvage shot like 7 by upping exposure and cooling the WB but not 6 (too far gone).

Haha I know.. I need to invest in a 900 so I can do more with my flash..
I didn't realize the recycle time was that long! I got eneloops the other day and tried burst and the flash was able to keep up for 5-6 shots until it had to recharge..

So would overexposing be better than underexposing? Im aware good exposure would be the best but if not th case...

Qarik

over exposing is slightly better then underexposing (as long as you don't blow out) becasue you can subtract data in processing but you can't add data. This is the "expose to the right" rule of thumb.