Kerri and Brad - San Francisco Wedding

tenoverthenose · April 20, 2010

Just finished putting Saturday's wedding on the blog. It was a crazy beautiful wedding, but it centered on two down to earth people. The bride did not want to take time away from her guests to take photos, so we took them after the reception was all over, joined by a close group of their friends. It was weird to shoot in front of an audience, all shouting their own suggestions of course

Not enough room for all of them here, many many more (and the full story) on the blog at www.patrickpike.com

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Agnieszka · April 20, 2010

Wow, wow, wow! ... have I said WOW yet??? AWESOME set & my dearest respect for shooting in front of an audience!

Have I mentioned lately how much I love your website??

Thanks for sharing, beautiful work!

Darren Troy C · April 20, 2010

Agnieszka wrote:

Wow, wow, wow! ... have I said WOW yet??? AWESOME set & my dearest respect for shooting in front of an audience!

Have I mentioned lately how much I love your website??

Thanks for sharing, beautiful work!

YUP...WHAT SHE SAID !!!!

tenoverthenose · April 20, 2010

Thanks Angie & Darren! Shooting in front of the audience was the tough part ... especially as my audience had been partaking throughout the night

I'd try to coach the bride & groom to do one thing, and everyone else would share their opinion on they should do. Thankfully I have a good sense of humor, even at 1 in the morning.

As to the website, I love it too! I wish I could take credit for all of it, but it wasn't my hard work that coded the site, it was my design team's - intothedarkroom.com I'm just happy to finally give my photographs the home I always wanted to!

mmmatt · April 20, 2010

Quality!

Are the light trails directly on the wall or is that flare in #8? The shadows from the lower rail are great... that isn't from a speedlight is it?

thanks for posting so much of your work Pat. Always so much to learn from you.

Matt

tenoverthenose · April 20, 2010

mmmatt wrote:

Quality!

Are the light trails directly on the wall or is that flare in #8? The shadows from the lower rail are great... that isn't from a speedlight is it?

Thanks Matt! In #8 just about all of the light is coming from the hanging light in the room. The light trails are just the way the glass in front of the light is bending the light. It made a really cool pattern that I knew my camera would pick up. Any other light is just bleeding in from outside the staircase and casting a slight shadow on the wall/bride.

VayCayMom · April 20, 2010

BEST cake shot I can recall, EVER!!!

Shima · April 21, 2010

Love it! They feel like they're popping out of the photo in 4 and in number 9 I feel like a voyeur (in a non-creepy sort of way). Great stuff!

zoomer · April 21, 2010

1 to me looks like it was taken a bit close and centered, unfortunately it looks like she has no head.
Great idea for a shot taken from a bit further back tuck her into the side a bit have her head present. My favorite part of the shot is the low angle across the train of the dress.

2 he looks unhappy about something, harsh flash.

3 I really like what you did with this one. Perfect composition

4 is a great setting. He is flashed quite a bit more than she is and if there were more ambient in the photo the awesome background could play a bigger part in the photo. The couple looks unhappy about something in the photo.

8 I want to like this but the light is just to dominant and centered. Centering the light right over the lady accentuates that everything is centered. I really like negative space but in this one the light is to much.

9 is really nice. You caught a moment in this one, she looks so happy

I hope my critique does not sound harsh..several of these photos are great ideas with lots of potential. If I didn't think that I would not have provided in depth critique.

tenoverthenose · April 21, 2010

zoomer wrote:

I hope my critique does not sound harsh..several of these photos are great ideas with lots of potential. If I didn't think that I would not have provided in depth critique.

No worries on that side of things, I always appreciate when people can tell me how to improve!

A few notes from my side...

I have a shot of #1 taken as you suggested, but without the veil. It really opens it up so you can see her head (my biggest problem with this shot), but I just like the lines better on this one. I like to shoot this down low and real wide to bring out the detail in the dress.

#2 has super hard light to go with his serious nature before the ceremony. I'm not sure this light would work if he was smiling...

#3 I'm bummed I didn't take this shot later when the B&G were looking at each other to complete the symmetry

#4 He is a bit brighter than her, I need to fix that.

#8 The light in the frame doesn't bother me - i like the balance between that and the bride. What bothers me about this is the upper left corner of the frame...

At the end of the day, like most of my shoots, I'm never really 100% happy with all of my images. There is always room for improvement and its great to learn for next time!

Thanks everyone for the comments!

Anabella · April 21, 2010

The first photo is great.

Kerri and Brad - San Francisco Wedding

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