Small Beach Wedding

[jwwill0]

First, I don't do weddings! I did this as a favor to family for a very small beach wedding last November. Just ran across them and thought I would share a couple. Your thoughts are more than welcome. I even did these shots with the 18-55 kit lens!! ugghhh.... ( I have some better equipment now, and hopefully better understanding of what I am doing). Anyway, enjoy.

[jwwill0]

#3 & #4

[jwwill0]

#5 & #6

[llaamaboy]

I love the first photo ... you might want to look at fine art as a hobby. :D

[Phil V]

This post should be held as a great example to non-wedding shooters who have been asked to shoot a wedding.

Some people think the answer's always NO. Personally I think that as we all shot our first wedding once, then the answer is a cautious yes.

The real answer is; Could you shoot this well, perfect exposure in difficult lighting, knowing your equipment well enough to be able to get the best out of it.
The first shot is excellent, 2,5 and 6 are stronger than 3 and 4. You're obviously not a wedding shooter (subtle things), but the couple have a great set of photo's. Well done.

[PIXI_666]

the first shot was great, very artistic, i think you need to incorporate that with your other images and poses, the other images posted look a little flat, the white sand against the white dress unfortunately blends in a bit too much, whether you needed more flash or even LESS etc. to pop out her dress?
I would have loved to have seen the B&G with those palm tree's, and just a few more artistic shots with them both.
Del

[jwwill0]

Thank you all for the comments. Keep em comin'. Here are a few more. Hopefully you don't mind. :)

[jwwill0]

#9 & #10

[jwwill0]

#11

[bonneyda]

Nice shots..............on #6, if this was taken in AV mode, I would dial down the EC a little to darken the sunset and maybe "slightly" increase the FEC. I don't know if you played around with either of those, but it looks like you just let the camera choose what exposure you wanted for both.

Also, did you use AWB or a custom white balance?

[MrTED]

These are great photos considering this is really your first wedding shoot. One thing to remember when shooting a wedding is "it is the little things that can turn your photos from a good to better, and sometime great". When I say little things, it is things like the sunglasses on the head, or cropping of the grooms head for example. The candid shots are great, maybe a little practice on posing for the more formal shots. Just my thoughts... but well done.

[tim]

Good effort esp since you said you're not a wedding photographer. I like the guy with the plant growing out of his head :p

[BLINN]

I like the comps on most of them, however you need more contrast to define the differance between the sand and the white clothes. Hard on the eye. Almost highkey. Try to PP the background abit darker.

[rayray]

well done for the 1st wedding. Watch for posing issues...make sure everyone is centered, and no trees or weird stuff growing out of peoples heads, legs, arms, etc. If you are going to crop someones head off, do it BOLDY and really make it stand out. otherwise, make sure that everything is included in the pic from the head down to the toes. The sand and white dress are hard to deal with, where were you metering?

[scattashot]

it is your first wedding, the pictures lack the WOW factor, they are at best average yet you were truly then not a wedding photograher, you used and on camera flash which created shadows in pic 4, a stroboframe would have helped there, pic 3 has distracting seaweed in the shot that adds nothing to the composition, the horizons in all the pics were straight and horizantal that is good, that factor always breaks an otherwise good beach shot. in the future try to capture a moment that would encasulate a thought, an action and freeze it forever for the BG, always take multiple shots of all the standard settings this will always save you in the end

good luck