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Day After Session (18 Large Pics)
We were unable to make their wedding do too short notice and holiday but they still wanted us to do a day after session. Not quite sure what I think about the last shot with flash, still learning how to use it, would appreciate any thoughts. All photos taken by my wife and I.
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Judging by where the light is hitting the ground and the shadow on the grooms face; the flash looks like it is not in front of the couple enough. Or its in the right spot but its feathered to just catch the groom slightly.
I think if you moved the light to the right more, relative to camera left, you could fill in the shadow on the grooms face (left side). The light spill would also have fallen off behind the them more, instead of on the ground to the bride left. I think this would have given you the detail on the right side of the jacket as well as made it appear as though they were in a spotlight.
Another alternative is to move the light in closer to the subject, adjust the light up so its not hitting the ground as much and stop it down a bit. I think this would create a greater fall off behind them and create a spotlight effect as well.
The only other thing I can think of regarding the jacket line is a second light behind them to act as a rim light.
This is just my opinion, and by no means contains expert advice...I'm just an observer. I'm still experimenting with lighting myself and find it much easier to "know" what I'm doing when looking at the photo afterward in Lightroom than to "know" what I'm doing during the photo op. If that makes sense!
I think the center composition on #7 is a great call, being as the trees are arching over them, and given the rest of the components. I like it a lot. Someone else may nitpick, but just tell them "rules are meant to be broken". lol
LOVE your dress shots. Also, 9&13 are some of my faves.
Also, some C&C that I wasn't asked for....I think you meant "..due to short notice..." , not "do too". Just sayin. Well, maybe I'm the one not getting it here. Not sure.
Anyway, again your work is inspiring to me!
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Tmelo- Thanks for braking the flash shot down, I will definitely try a rim light next time and see what happens with raising the fill a bit more
Weisel- Thanks for the input on #7, I still don’t know what I think of it, it is the only other shot besides #18 where I used a flash. My wife took #9 and #13 I think #9 is my favorite from the set. Even after all my college English classes the double O on to always gets me
VayCayMom- I agree, I really could use some help in the pp department. I am not really happy with my style in that regard. Currently I am just using Lr3 to make adjustments.
Thanks for the encouragement; I have seen many people get away with just using LR3. Now I guess I just need to spend some serious time experimenting and developing something that works.