Some wedding photos

[kanwingshing]

Want some honest comments on my work :D

[roanjohn]

Very nice!!! A little too "bride" heavy..........Although they are more interesting to photograph, the groom needs luv too.

In any case, you are hired ;-)

Ro1

[kanwingshing]

Yes I agree with you that it's a bit bride heavy. I would try to incorporate the groom more on my future jobs. Thanks.
Any comment from other people? :)

[GPR1]

I have only taken wedding photos once, for my uncle, so take my suggestions with a grain of salt. I couldn't do better, but I have some areas where I think you could improve.

My suggestions regard details. Sometimes your compositions seem "loose," with too much empty space around the edge of the image, often at the top. Some images are nicely cropped, but a fair minority could be tighter, or balanced better.

Particularly in your casual photos, there are extraneous elements that don't add to the image. That's tough to control in casual situations, but an area where I could suggest improvement.

You could work on lighting control. Some of the lighting is flat. In some situations, you have no choice, I understand.

I hope this helps. It's not that I could take better pictures (or even ones as good), but I see yours could be helped by the above.

Greg

[ryuwulf]

VEry good work. Caputured the moment.

bravo

[Pekka]

I have only taken wedding photos once, for my uncle, so take my suggestions with a grain of salt. I couldn't do better, but I have some areas where I think you could improve.

My suggestions regard details. Sometimes your compositions seem "loose," with too much empty space around the edge of the image, often at the top. Some images are nicely cropped, but a fair minority could be tighter, or balanced better.

Particularly in your casual photos, there are extraneous elements that don't add to the image. That's tough to control in casual situations, but an area where I could suggest improvement.

You could work on lighting control. Some of the lighting is flat. In some situations, you have no choice, I understand.

I hope this helps. It's not that I could take better pictures (or even ones as good), but I see yours could be helped by the above.

Greg

I agree to this. Go closer, isolate more. I don't do weddings but that goes well for every type of photography.

I do not know about your gear but I would have two cameras ready, one with 70-200 (candids) and one with 24-70 (groups, closeups) to get as much variance as possible. This will also help you get different views of moments like cake cutting without delay (many wedding shooters work in pairs because of this).

About the colors and lighting: shoot RAW and set WB and exposure/curves later to make the colors look even/natural and exposures match so that the photos belonging to same wedding has the same "look".

Post processing is very important, do not give away any photos which you have not tweaked for the best possible look.

Good luck!

[4walls]

I am not a wedding photographer... but IMO these shots seem very SAFE. A little more creativity and different locations with some interesting architecture or landscape and more poses away from the traditional. Don't be afraid to TILT that camera off the horizontal plane (not all the way to vertical, just a little tilt).

I think that bride heavy (vs heavy brides :wink: ) is likely the way to go. Make sure you shoot RAW, those are the pics that you are going to enlarge and make the money on. But just as important are the couple shots, you will make enlargements of those too. The wedding party shots and reception shots... ho hum... you're not likely to sell a lot of those as big enlargements... get good shots, but don't waste too much time on those. If you are in it for the money, it is BRIDE, BRIDE AND GROOM, then all other shots.

I have been researching wedding photography online and there are some really stunning shots and poses you can copy from other photographers. Wedding shows can be a great source of information as well.
One of my favorite sites... (http://www.trevorbrucki.com/)