ART My third wedding as an Assistant. C&C

[Tonster MBA]

http://www.bjjphotos.com/hil_caleb/index.html


Any criticism is welcome....


let me have it OT

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[IntheWorks]

please pick like 10-20 shots and post them here... I don't really want to have to go through 200+ shots.

What I did randomly click on looked nice though.

 

[HighTachPres]

^ what he said

 

[ace3]

^^ what they said

 

[Hyperite]

^^ what ace3 said

 

[Girth]

^^what they all said

 

[Tedrzz]

^^ what girth said

 

[Jcolman]

I went thru every single shot, evaluated every one of them, checked out each shot's EXIF data and wrote up some very valuable notes.













I just forgot what I did with them.

 

[Jcolman]

Nice work though

 

[GammaRadiation]

Looks like they should be happy with them. I'm guessing it's the site that is making the photos look blurry and pixelated.

 

[Tonster MBA]

Bump

 

[johan]

so first, the bad news.

the framing looks off on some of them. I'm wishing for either wider or closer.
therefore, I'm going to guess you shot this with two lenses, probably a 70-200 zoom, and a normal kit zoom (not a 2.8 or faster).

Ex: #18. Close crops are nice. but this is possibly too close.
#13. What's the story you're telling? Including the minister so clearly looking off frame draws the eye to look at....nothing.
#14 bride's partial backside is distracting and feels 'accidental'


other than the framing, a few are soft.

also lighting is splotchy on some, totally understand you gotta work with whats there, but even if you don't strobe it, a few hours of PP will do wonders.

Example: #7. Nice shot. Mom's face is a bit dark. The door in the background is distracting. So is the bright red EXIT splotch above it. Do some dodging and blurring. Or flip to a bw conversion.
#8. Again, nice shot...but. Big foot jutting out in the background, fairly brightly lit, draws attention and detracts from the pic.


the good:
the set looks pretty nice actually, and you're definitely on the right road.

some good ideas here, just some polish on the execution and you'll be set.

 

[themolsen]

white balance or skin stones look off to me...skin looks orangey in some shots.. but it could be this laptop monitor i'm on right now

 

[Perkwunos]

5 and 6 are blurry in a bad way, you probably should have shot at a lower aperture, or a higher aperture, and without motion blur.

Given your circumstances, that looks like one of the crapiest places to have a wedding ever.... The church sucked, and so did the place they had the reception, which looks to still be the church.

 

[Sympathy]

I like #18 the most.
#5 + 6 would have looked better if the DOF was more shallow (ie more bokeh in the background).

 

[Tonster MBA]

Thanks for the input...

And yeah they church was just like a big warehouse, converted into a church, and the whole wedding was illuminated with the soft orange light, It was horrible lightening conditions... but i did my best.