1st ever Baptism shoot - results

Raphy · December 7, 2007

Well, this was quite the experience. For those of you who saw my earlier thread (http://www.digitalgrin.com/showthread.php?t=77114), I was asked to shoot a baptism and i didn't have the proper equipment... ie, a flash...

So I made a home-made diffuser and went in for battle :huh It was quite something... trying to be at the right place at the right time, everyone looking 10 different ways becasue there are 10 different cameras trying to take photos of everyone... it was definately hard work. I really wasn't a fan of taking the "family portraits"... lol... the location wasn't that great and the lighting has horrid :rolleyes

Anyways, enough of my whining...below are some of the results. I'm not thrilled about them, but i'm also not completely disappointed I guess. I came out with over 300 photos, which i cut down to about 130 and there are still some in there that i'm not too thrilled about, i I guess about 100 is going to be the real number. I will be giving the family a link to my smugmug so they can view and share with friends/family. I'm also going to put together a little album for the little girl as my gift to her.

Considering the HORRIBLE lighting...or more like NO lighting, and my lack of proper equipment, it turned out half-decent i suppose...well, you be the judge....

This is my 1st ever crack at it and 1st crack at ANY organized event. If you can provide some feedback, that would be great so I can improve for next time... (hopefully by then i'll have a proper flash unit.. :thumb )

System · December 7, 2007

gee, I think you did pretty good!-

pyrtek · December 7, 2007

I, too, think you did a great job. The only problem I see is that a lot of these
have a very strong red cast. Like this one:

BEFORE:

After a quick touch up:

pathfinder · December 7, 2007

gefillmore wrote:

gee, I think you did pretty good!-

I think you did an excellent job too, given the limitations you discussed in the other thread.

BTW - I was in Toronto just last week end, what a lovely city, even if it did snow:D

System · December 7, 2007

pyrtek wrote:

I, too, think you did a great job. The only problem I see is that a lot of these
have a very strong red cast. Like this one:

BEFORE:

After a quick touch up:

nice-

Raphy · December 7, 2007

THanks everyone !

Pyrtek - thanks for the touch-up example... i totally see your point and i'll defiantely play aroud with this. I shot everything in manual mode and out of the white balance options, i went with the more -reddish (as opposed to blue) tone... i will defiantely tone this down... thanks !

pyrtek · December 7, 2007

Raphy wrote:

Pyrtek - thanks for the touch-up example... i totally see your point and i'll defiantely play aroud with this.

Just holler if you need any help.

SloYerRoll · December 7, 2007

Raphy wrote:

THanks everyone !

Pyrtek - thanks for the touch-up example... i totally see your point and i'll defiantely play aroud with this. I shot everything in manual mode and out of the white balance options, i went with the more -reddish (as opposed to blue) tone... i will defiantly tone this down... thanks !

It's good that you shot everything in manual!
All you have to do is dial in one shot and use those settings for all the images. You may need to nudge the shots a little bit, but they will be very close and you only had to work out one image.

Pyrtek is way better than me in post. But I'm no slouch.. If you need another hand. I can help out too.

Cheers,
-Jon

ShepsMom · December 7, 2007

Good job!! I was waiting for you to post these, as i remembered you had a photoshoot. I think you did wonderful, your light is good, WB can also be adjusted. I think you're too hard on yourself.