One from my favourite bride this year.

[Wedding Shooter]

Hope you like it.

[tim]

Nice :) May I post a crop of it?

[Wedding Shooter]

Sure Tim - happy to look at your suggestion.

[tim]

My take - just an idea - the original image was great but there was a bit much empty space for me, and it was a bit central. Plus I just like 16:9 type crops.

[jamiepeter]

Pretty pretty image. Taken in natural light...? Reflectors? Fill flash? Thanks!

[Wedding Shooter]

Hi Tim - crop is nice. When this shot goes in the album it will probably be cropped in some way.

Jamie - natural light. Sun is coming from over his left shoulder and slightly behind to create the rim light.

[jessiper]

The extra empty space was the first thing I noticed. I like Tim's version. Cute pic! :)

[islandphoto]

I like the crop! NICE PHOTO :) Which method did you use for a black and white conversion?

[Wedding Shooter]

The black and white conversion was done in Canon's DPP RAW converter. Just selected monochrome and pushed the contrast slider.

[Jonny]

I would go for a tighter crop too.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j.speed/Images/webfix.jpg

[jessiper]

That's cute, Jonny, but I think his face should be a bit softer. Although I think your B&W conversion looks the best so far.

[Jonny]

That's cute, Jonny, but I think his face should be a bit softer. Although I think your B&W conversion looks the best so far.

Agreed, if i was doing the processing for a print i would definately soften the skin - especially the guy.
BW conversion is something i really work on and pride my self on the results.

[tim]

Be careful softening skin on guys, it can make them look ten years old. It works better on women because we're used to seeing that.

[Wedding Shooter]

Looks like Jon has sharpened his - I applied some softening to the image but left the eyes sharp.

Personally it now looks over sharpened.