Wedding I shot yesterday.

blackwaterstudio · April 16, 2006

As some of you may have read here is the shots from my best friend's wedding yesterday. These are just a sample of the shots.

As always, took with the Canon 20D, Canon 24-70L and Sigma Super 500 flash. All show in RAW, ISO 400 and worked in PS. Comments are really welcomed

nateeboy68 · April 16, 2006

Great pic of the white ribbon. I love the clarity and sharpness. I have a question for you. I'm interesting in trying wedding photography. Is it true that a majority of wedding shots tend to be candid ones that are simply seen at the right time from the right place?

DanielB · April 16, 2006

nateeboy68 wrote:

Great pic of the white ribbon. I love the clarity and sharpness. I have a question for you. I'm interesting in trying wedding photography. Is it true that a majority of wedding shots tend to be candid ones that are simply seen at the right time from the right place?

thats a question for Shay

nice shot of the ribbon and the others too

blackwaterstudio · April 16, 2006

nateeboy68 wrote:

Great pic of the white ribbon. I love the clarity and sharpness. I have a question for you. I'm interesting in trying wedding photography. Is it true that a majority of wedding shots tend to be candid ones that are simply seen at the right time from the right place?

Thanks. Only posed shots you see there is the last one. I have some more posed shots, but 90% were candid shots.

ziggy53 · April 16, 2006

I'm impressed! Exposure looks perfect. Colors look accurate. The flash is not obvious. I think you did a wonderful job.

It looks like a light and bright church and that usually helps. The church I got married in has few windows and a dark brick interior. (The darkness was probably an omen.

: )

I've shot video and still stuff there for the last 25 years and it just sucks up the light.

Anyway, good job. How did the reception go?

ziggy53

blackwaterstudio · April 17, 2006

ziggy53 wrote:

I'm impressed! Exposure looks perfect. Colors look accurate. The flash is not obvious. I think you did a wonderful job.

It looks like a light and bright church and that usually helps. The church I got married in has few windows and a dark brick interior. (The darkness was probably an omen. : )

I've shot video and still stuff there for the last 25 years and it just sucks up the light.

Anyway, good job. How did the reception go?

ziggy53

Thanks Ziggy. I'm still working on levels in PS as some have said it seems to be just a tad over cooked.

As for the reception, it went well. Still processing them but will post some when I'm done.

DavidTO · April 17, 2006

Nice work, especially for first time out!

Watch your skin tones, they're tending towards magenta, and should have more yellow than magenta (for normal skin), also I think that you could deepen your shadows---sometimes it's a matter of setting the black point, and others I think it's a matter of making the shadows part of your curve more horizontal than vertical, making the shadows deeper, and adding a touch more contrast to the rest of the shot. Not true for all of them, but overall.

blackwaterstudio · April 17, 2006

DavidTO wrote:

Nice work, especially for first time out!

Watch your skin tones, they're tending towards magenta, and should have more yellow than magenta (for normal skin), also I think that you could deepen your shadows---sometimes it's a matter of setting the black point, and others I think it's a matter of making the shadows part of your curve more horizontal than vertical, making the shadows deeper, and adding a touch more contrast to the rest of the shot. Not true for all of them, but overall.

Thanks DavidTO, I'll see what I can do when I'm messing around with the levels and see if I can't bring some of these stuff out.

DavidTO · April 17, 2006

blackwaterstudio wrote:

Thanks DavidTO, I'll see what I can do when I'm messing around with the levels and see if I can't bring some of these stuff out.

What software are you using? CS2? Elements? Other?

blackwaterstudio · April 17, 2006

DavidTO wrote:

What software are you using? CS2? Elements? Other?

Right now I'm using PS CS

DavidTO · April 17, 2006

blackwaterstudio wrote:

Right now I'm using PS CS

Then I think you'd be better off using curves than levels.

blackwaterstudio · April 17, 2006

DavidTO wrote:

Then I think you'd be better off using curves than levels.

I'll look into using the curves then

Kodachrome · April 18, 2006

blackwaterstudio wrote:

As some of you may have read here is the shots from my best friend's wedding yesterday. These are just a sample of the shots.

As always, took with the Canon 20D, Canon 24-70L and Sigma Super 500 flash. All show in RAW, ISO 400 and worked in PS. Comments are really welcomed

...great start for your first wedding!

Being digital you have so many options in editing...being able to fix the od thing can make or break an image...wish I had digital when I was still shooting weddings...

The comment on being light and magenta skin tone is dead on.

Every monitor sees images in differant ways...it might look good on your monitor but may not on others...also if you are going to get economy prints done...send a few sample files to the print shop...this way you can see how they interpret your files...usually I tell the print shot to print as found...this way you have complete control. You don't want some lab tech adjusting to suit there eye.

"Oh" I just had to do a little PS...took out the leaning plank between the couple...took out the floor fixture infront of the bride...brought up the black point and added 10 points of yellow...just my .02 worth

...thanks for sharing your work...Tony

blackwaterstudio · April 20, 2006

Kodachrome wrote:

...great start for your first wedding!

Being digital you have so many options in editing...being able to fix the od thing can make or break an image...wish I had digital when I was still shooting weddings...

The comment on being light and magenta skin tone is dead on.

Every monitor sees images in differant ways...it might look good on your monitor but may not on others...also if you are going to get economy prints done...send a few sample files to the print shop...this way you can see how they interpret your files...usually I tell the print shot to print as found...this way you have complete control. You don't want some lab tech adjusting to suit there eye.

"Oh" I just had to do a little PS...took out the leaning plank between the couple...took out the floor fixture infront of the bride...brought up the black point and added 10 points of yellow...just my .02 worth

...thanks for sharing your work...Tony

Tony love what you did with that. Care to PM how you went about making it pop like that?

Kodachrome · April 20, 2006

blackwaterstudio wrote:

Tony love what you did with that. Care to PM how you went about making it pop like that?

...most of the pop was done by bringing up the black point.

From raw did you have to do much to samples that you show?

...then the other thing I do to give the photos some dimenion/pop is to use the spray tool set at 5-8% colour burn, set at the largest spray/diameter (for the pic I am working on)...keeping the correction light I can control the build up in the amount of burning..there was about 4 passes around the couple with that tool so the burning in is about 30%...any more and you would start to see photoshop...and I hate that.

blackwaterstudio · April 21, 2006

Kodachrome wrote:

...most of the pop was done by bringing up the black point.

From raw did you have to do much to samples that you show?

...then the other thing I do to give the photos some dimenion/pop is to use the spray tool set at 5-8% colour burn, set at the largest spray/diameter (for the pic I am working on)...keeping the correction light I can control the build up in the amount of burning..there was about 4 passes around the couple with that tool so the burning in is about 30%...any more and you would start to see photoshop...and I hate that.

Didn't have to do much out of PS. Change the color temp alittle, contrast and some USM is about all I did.