[Sawyer]

Attended a friend's wedding today. I don't have time to filter through all the photos atm and put them up, but here's a sample.



EF-S 55-250mm IS, 90mm, F4.5, 1/50, ISO400, 430EXII, no PP/Crop.

Opinions welcome.

[THOUTHCAW]

Okay, here's my critique!

First off, it's a nice moment, I'm sure the bride and the groom would be happy with it. That being said...

The first thing I noticed was that it was crooked, fix that when you crop it.

Second watch your backgrounds, the groom has flowers growing out of his head! Taking 2 steps to the right would have placed (hopefully) that out from directly behind your subject.

Third, your exposure at a wedding should always be set according to the bride. In this picture her dress is slightly underexposed so her dress appears more to the gray side than super white. (This is caused by the "confusion" the meter gets when a light and a dark object are together, it tries to average them out and make the scene appear 18% gray). Weddings are all about the bride so the wedding dress should be super white! Expose to the right, clip the blacks on the groom's suit if need be, the wedding is all about the bride!

Lastly, crop out the brown on the right side of the picture.

[Cemeuncex]

Okay, here's my critique!

First off, it's a nice moment, I'm sure the bride and the groom would be happy with it. That being said...

The first thing I noticed was that it was crooked, fix that when you crop it.

Second watch your backgrounds, the groom has flowers growing out of his head! Taking 2 steps to the right would have placed (hopefully) that out from directly behind your subject.

Third, your exposure at a wedding should always be set according to the bride. In this picture her dress is slightly underexposed so her dress appears more to the gray side than super white. (This is caused by the "confusion" the meter gets when a light and a dark object are together, it tries to average them out and make the scene appear 18% gray). Weddings are all about the bride so the wedding dress should be super white! Expose to the right, clip the blacks on the groom's suit if need be, the wedding is all about the bride!

Lastly, crop out the brown on the right side of the picture.

1. Yeah, I didn't get a chance to crop yet. I will be doing that eventually.

2. This is a bit tricky, because I wasn't the main photographer, so pickings were slim. I wasn't really that close with the bride and groom as well, so I couldn't just move anywhere I wanted. Whatever I could get was really all I could get literally. I wish I could have shadowed the dedicated photographer, but no luck there.

3. The dress wasn't like super white though, so once I do the white balance adjustments (the place was overall really dark, incandescent lighting), I hope it'll look whiter I guess. This picture is a bad example for that as well because the shadow/angle is what makes it darker. If you look at the groom's shirt, that's the white I was following. If I adjust the exposure though, their skin will look a little pale. I don't know, let me know more once I get through a few more and show you a bit more.

4. See #1

[Helloheshess]

Alright, had some time to play around a bit. Here's the PPed version.



Comments appreciated.

[expabsPapsgag]

Good, but you forgot to straighten it! (Personal pet peve of mine, especially since it's so easy to do in LR! Hope you don't mind I did it for you...



See how much better it looks when the background's vertical lines are vertical! Now I know I chopped the top of his head off a little, but you've got more room to crop in your original, this was just to show the point. I used the dark line in the background as a vertical point of reference. Even if the background was slightly crooked, it looks better this way IMO.

See how a few tweaks completely changed the picture? This is a nice capture.

[WrigleyMike]

But then that's not straight either, because I took that pic from a 30 degree left angle, so the subject was straight, now it's not.

[ftqwhbvxlcfop]

Well, it's up to you, but whenever there are vertical lines in a picture that are slightly off vertical it's distracting. The subject doesn't matter as much, because there isn't any real reference point on them for your eye to go to, it just makes them look like they're leaning in a little more for the kiss.

[KLhdfskja]

I'm thinking of actually adding vignette into it instead.

[FetMiddle]

Lastly, crop out the brown on the right side of the picture.

thats what i would do first !

good looking pic tho .. just a little under exposed.

[GECEDEANY]

i think it could handle a bit more cooler color temp. but i think thats my taste..



and a tid bit over exposure always makes ladies happy :-P

makes skin look smoother for them i guess :-P