Does this work?

[CDBlue]

This shot was from the first, and likely last, wedding I've ever done. It's a good thing they were friends of mine and they had no expectations other than something better than a point and shoot :D .... anyway, here's one of the shots taken during the ceremony. Does this post processing work, or is it too dark for a wedding?


http://users.eastlink.ca/%7Ecbourque/CRW_1826.jpg

[tim]

Not really, it's underexposed and blurry.

[CDBlue]

The blurriness is not intentional (was my bad for having not fired the flash), but the exposure is part of the post processing (dragon effect).. guess it doesn't work for a shot like this :)

[agosling]

Sorry man but it just looks like a blurry, underexposed image. The only thing that I can think that might save it is to do a B&W conversion and add noise, that may hide the blurriness a little and make it look a bit arty. If that doesn't help it's a bin job.

[song4themoon]

I have to agree, just doesnt work. Can we see the original?

[CDBlue]

Btw, in case you're wondering, I actually got quite a few decent shots from this wedding and the bride and groom are happy with the results... this was just me playing around with one that I wanted to try and salvage :) Anyway, here's the same shot before the dragon effect.

http://users.eastlink.ca/%7Ecbourque/CRW_1826b.jpg

[Jwreich]

The before looks better. Still blurry, but at least exposed properly. I'm sure if you play around a bit you can make somethign artistic out of this, or use it as a background for a wedding album page...

[song4themoon]

I agree about the original looking better

[agosling]

This is about 5 minutes work and it shows, but I was able to sharpen it to a point where it was close to usable especially if you faded it and used it as a background for an album. The second one is a realy rough mono conversion with noise added, again it is probably only good enough for a background but it might give you a couple of ideas to have a play with.

[sblais]

the blurriness spoils the shot for me for both the original and the retouch attempts.

[Chris&jess]

Too bad you didn't actually get the ring in the photo. It would then be worth all the fuss.

[JMW-Photo]

Just curious...are you using "all points" auto focus or "center" point AF?

It looks to me that you were using all points as the sharpest area is his tuxedo cuff where the AF system might have picked up being the area of most contrast. Try getting use to using the center point.

[hard12find]

Looks like exyremely shallow DOF to me there is an area in focus near the cuff ....
I lked the origional better as well and agree that maybe as a background..

[CDBlue]

I was set to center-point focus, not all points. This was the first in a series of shots of the ring section of the ceremony. More than likely I was in focus of the cuff at the time because I took about 10 shots in a quick time frame, and moving quickly to get all the angles I wanted to get. They were really nervous, as was I since this was my first wedding shoot, and they kind of rushed through the whole part. I agree about the ring part, but unfortunately I didn't get the ring in this shot/angle which I liked.

Unfortunately, the venue for this wedding (and the formal shots) was terrible for lighting ... I would have even preferred a dimly lit church over the incredibly poorly lit room the wedding was held in. However, I did not choose the location, so had to work with what I had been given. This also explains the narrow DOF since I had to use the widest aperture I had when I wasn't using the flash (which I didn't want to use while I was close in like this with my 50mm).

The funny thing is I took some test shots the week before at this location, and thought I was better prepared. But the lighting must have changed for the darker the night of the actual wedding, as I could not use the settings I had originally planned to use.

[dosha]

I feel for you CD-I have a night wedding this weekend that is going to be difficult lighting! I would like to see some of the other pictures you took!