Some W-shots

Nikolai

Some shots from the last week wedding. Minor touchup in LR (yes, I know, I decided to give it another try). No PS at all (hence some rough edges). I'm mostly interested in sharing the soul and mood at this point.

01: Best man and groom:



02: Here she comes:



03: All ready:



04: Formal portrait:



05: Another family member:



06: Husband and wife:



07: A toast:



08: First dance:



and last, but most certainly not least...

09: Total stranger:



Thanks for watching!

urbanaries

These are all great, Nik, but #8 just takes my breath away...awesome shot, for what that's worth. Absolute killer moment, and the mixture of backlight and fill gives it a lot of depth and tension....Wow.

The others are really nice (obviously need some cropping in a few) but you knew that. Were you the primary photog?

(I have a Huey on my monitor, yet I still seem to have color issues, so take this with a grain of salt, but there seems to be a lot of magenta in the first pic skintones.)

Nikolai

urbanaries wrote:

These are all great, Nik, but #8 just takes my breath away...awesome shot, for what that's worth. Absolute killer moment, and the mixture of backlight and fill gives it a lot of depth and tension....Wow.

The others are really nice (obviously need some cropping in a few) but you knew that. Were you the primary photog?

(I have a Huey on my monitor, yet I still seem to have color issues, so take this with a grain of salt, but there seems to be a lot of magenta in the first pic skintones.)

Lynne,
thank you, appreciate the comment.
Colors are mostly wrong - thanks to LR. I mentally dumped LR after beta, but when last Sunday I saw how David (primary photog on this gig, I only assisted) was processing our mutual 2400 shots with it I decided to give it another try. Unlike with Bridge/PS, I totally didn't know what I'm doing and simply fiddled with all possible sliders (all past midnight:-). Luckily, I'm not the person who's doing all the real processing for the client this time, so I simply had fun.
And yes, I do have Huey too, and I know what you're talking about ;-)
Hence my very initial comment about colors/crops being all off..

Scott_Quier

Very nice job! And, like Lynne has already said, #8 is simply stunning. Love the light and the depth of the photo and the emotion in his face. Well done!

ShepsMom

My fav. are 1,4 5, and 7 Wonderful work. On 6, husband looks a bit soft (picturewise) Great job!

Cuties02q

Great pictures...I have to agree #8 is just beautiful

evoryware

I love #3 even though she has these things coming out her head. Beautiful bride.
I also love 5! Oh my, a black haired dog on the White dress?
#8 is the charm!

Elaine

Another vote for #8! REALLY nice!

DavidS

Nice shots. I love #8. Wow!

Nikolai

Scott,

Scott_Quier wrote:

Very nice job! And, like Lynne has already said, #8 is simply stunning. Love the light and the depth of the photo and the emotion in his face. Well done!

Thank you, that was probably the only keeper out of 800+ :-)

Nikolai

Marina,

ShepsMom wrote:

My fav. are 1,4 5, and 7 Wonderful work. On 6, husband looks a bit soft (picturewise) Great job!

Thank you!
As I mentioned earlier, I didn't put too much time into PP, this was mostly a test run for LR...

Nikolai

Cuties02q wrote:

Great pictures...I have to agree #8 is just beautiful

Thank you, appreciate it!

Nikolai

evoryware wrote:

I love #3 even though she has these things coming out her head. Beautiful bride.
I also love 5! Oh my, a black haired dog on the White dress?
#8 is the charm!

Thanks! Yeah, that dog was a huge part of the show...

Nikolai

Elaine,

Elaine wrote:

Another vote for #8! REALLY nice!

Few more, and it will end up in LPS SF :-) Maybe I had to submit it to Joy part

Nikolai

David,

DavidS wrote:

Nice shots. I love #8. Wow!

Thank you! Looks like #8 is a winner!

~Jan~

Wow, 800+? I am so not doing weddings. Those are nice shots!

Nikolai

~Jan~ wrote:

Wow, 800+? I am so not doing weddings. Those are nice shots!

Sorry, I was slacking, David took 1,600+
Thanks!

saurora

Nik I know you want to hear one more time that #8 is the winner so..........let me just say #8 is a winner!!!! Great ambience, everyone looks happy, except the photographer in #9 looks a little disgruntled. Perhaps he's thinking ot the 2400 shots he gets to work up!!!! Nice job!

Nikolai

Susan,

saurora wrote:

Nik I know you want to hear one more time that #8 is the winner so..........let me just say #8 is a winner!!!! Great ambience, everyone looks happy, except the photographer in #9 looks a little disgruntled. Perhaps he's thinking ot the 2400 shots he gets to work up!!!! Nice job!

Thanks! I guess even I can afford getting one decent shot per 800

pathfinder

Nik,

I knew I had seen this couple previously[/img].

I was reading an article that I believe Andrew Rodney wrote about never using AWB balance. The tenor of the article was to ALWAYS shoot in something besides AWB. Even if it is the wrong white balance, it will always be off in the same way unless the light changes and thus can be easily corrrected in ACR by finding a white point and then using that as a basis for adjusting your images.

I think using a green photo filter and a selction of "redder" parts of the skin will work pretty well and pretty quickly also. The skin tone is usually magenta, not really red in many of these images. If it is really red, a cyan filter should do the trick.

snapapple

Nik,
As I scrolled through I stopped short at #8 with a gasp and a "Wow!" It's the best "first dance" photo I've ever seen. Then I saw the other comments. No matter, my reaction was spontaneous.

It's not easy to work with the various skin tones all in one image. I don't envy you that job. But, you did a great job. Quality, not quantity is what counts. They will have lots to chose from.

Nikolai

pathfinder wrote:

Nik,

I knew I had seen this couple previously.

I was reading an article that I believe Andrew Rodney wrote about never using AWB balance. The tenor of the article was to ALWAYS shoot in something besides AWB. Even if it is the wrong white balance, it will always be off in the same way unless the light changes and thus can be easily corrrected in ACR by finding a white point and then using that as a basis for adjusting your images.

I think using a green photo filter and a selction of "redder" parts of the skin will work pretty well and pretty quickly also. The skin tone is usually magenta, not really red in many of these images. If it is really red, a cyan filter should do the trick.

Jim,
thank you for the link, appreciate it!

Nikolai

Susan,

snapapple wrote:

Nik,
As I scrolled through I stopped short at #8 with a gasp and a "Wow!" It's the best "first dance" photo I've ever seen. Then I saw the other comments. No matter, my reaction was spontaneous.

It's not easy to work with the various skin tones all in one image. I don't envy you that job. But, you did a great job. Quality, not quantity is what counts. They will have lots to chose from.

Thank you very much, appreciate it!