Bride in Dress

Gringriff · July 8, 2010

Several weeks back a friend asked me to shoot her soon to be daughter in law in her wedding dress. I had to wait until after the wedding to share anything online. They are now happily married so here are a few examples.

This was a first for me so any feedback and suggestions would be helpful. Thanks for taking the time to look and/or comment.

Andy

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smurfy · July 8, 2010

I like seven best.

Next time, buy some flowers at the grocery store, and tell her to look in places other than at you. Look down, to one side or the other, take photos from the back with her glancing over her shoulder, etc. She is pretty, but I'm not seeing her features played up much in this set.

Number ten is a beautiful idea, and the colors lovely. I think if it was my shot, I'd have taken one horizontally, or would have cropped this one to make it a shot from her waist at the bottom to her fingertips at the top of the frame.

Thanks for sharing!

Ed911 · July 8, 2010

smurfy wrote: »

I like seven best.

Next time, buy some flowers at the grocery store, and tell her to look in places other than at you. Look down, to one side or the other, take photos from the back with her glancing over her shoulder, etc. She is pretty, but I'm not seeing her features played up much in this set.

+1 for the above.

And try to get her off of that canned smile. None of her pictures where she is smiling look genuine. Number one is a good example. My take is that her facial expression is saying....what...are...you...doing.

Just my two cents. Food for thought.

By they way, your images are nice...skin tones look good as does your post processing. So, you've got that down pretty good.

Hope this helps...and thanks for sharing your images. Hope to see more.

Gringriff · July 8, 2010

Thanks so much for the feedback. It is very helpful and why these forums are so useful.

I never know which images to share or post. On several of the images where she was not smiling it did not look like she was as happy so I tended to pick out more with the smiles. We did shoot several with her looking in different directions and even tried a few flower props - but not a whole bouquet. That would have been a great idea - one to try next time.

I agree, the flower petals in the air would have been nice in landscape mode - need to remember that one next time (I usually shoot spots and tend to get stuck in portrait mode most of the time).

Here are a couple more examples that go at least toward the direction mentioned above.

Thanks again for your help,
Andy

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13. I also experimented in B/W on a few.

smurfy · July 9, 2010

Twelve is beautiful! And overall, she is looking far more attractive in these than in the first ones.

Not too crazy about the eliptical oval/ b& w conversion on 13...it looks a little 1980's. But the original is probably nicer. Black and whites in wedding photography need either a lot of contrast to make up for the lack of color, or they need strong emotion to convert successfully. This one doesn't seem to be a candidate for black and white, IMHO.

Thanks again for having the courage to share your first bridals! And these are better than my first ones were : )

Qarik · July 9, 2010

here is a suggestion..try putting a slight vignette on all of them. just to darken the edges. It really helps to draw your eyes into the subject.

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