Last Saturday's Wedding

kdotaylor

This is my second paid wedding, a favor to a friend. I'm thinking about possibly shooting more weddings; and obviously have a lot to learn. I'm looking for any feedback you'd be willing to give. I felt like this was a challenge due to the set-up--The wedding was on a hillside with no trees, and the couple was facing directly into the sun during the ceremony. Any thoughts on what you'd have done differently? Any tricks for this type of sunny ceremony?

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Matthew Saville

Good stuff, I would lighten up on some of the processing here and there, for example #10 looks kinda cool and gritty, but #11 looks a little over-processed. All in all I would say, practice a lot more before taking any paid weddings from strangers. I'm sure that friends doing friends favors are going to indeed be very happy with results like this, but there's definitely a difference when you step up to doing work with, well, strangers.

Work on improving focusing, lighting, and general posing / portraiture, basically just practice practice practice. I'm sure others will chime in with a few more specific helpful insights...

=Matt=

kdotaylor

Matthew Saville wrote: »

Good stuff, I would lighten up on some of the processing here and there, for example #10 looks kinda cool and gritty, but #11 looks a little over-processed. All in all I would say, practice a lot more before taking any paid weddings from strangers. I'm sure that friends doing friends favors are going to indeed be very happy with results like this, but there's definitely a difference when you step up to doing work with, well, strangers.

Work on improving focusing, lighting, and general posing / portraiture, basically just practice practice practice. I'm sure others will chime in with a few more specific helpful insights...

=Matt=

Thanks for taking time to comment, Matt. Any idea why my focus would be off if I used a fast shutter speed and focused on her eyes?

Matthew Saville

kdotaylor wrote: »

Thanks for taking time to comment, Matt. Any idea why my focus would be off if I used a fast shutter speed and focused on her eyes?

To be more specific, it looks as if #16 was slightly back-focused, however I might be wrong because it is only low-res here on this forum. Either way, the explanation is simply that not every camera nails everything perfectly, every single time. But like I said, I could be wrong. Most of the other shots look like they were indeed perfectly focused. :-)

=Matt=