Wedding with snow and ice! =)

[picturecrazy]

Had an awesome wedding in Jasper, AB!

C&C appreciated!

1. 1Ds3/10-22
http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/misc/forumpics/wff/LesleyDaleW/161115_8645.jpg

2. 1Ds3/70-200
http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/misc/forumpics/wff/LesleyDaleW/163636_8673.jpg

3. 1D3/10-22
http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/misc/forumpics/wff/LesleyDaleW/165217_8030.jpg

4. 1Ds3/70-200 - Bride requested this from another Jasper wedding we did.
http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/misc/forumpics/wff/LesleyDaleW/165922_8726.jpg

5. 1Ds3/11-16 - parking lot shot
http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/misc/forumpics/wff/LesleyDaleW/132835_8412.jpg

6. 1Ds3/11-16 - Train Station
http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/misc/forumpics/wff/LesleyDaleW/133646_8420.jpg

7. 1Ds3/24-105
http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/misc/forumpics/wff/LesleyDaleW/140457_8467.jpg


8. 1D3/11-16 - Night shot! 13 second exposure!
http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/misc/forumpics/wff/LesleyDaleW/225118_8376.jpg

[drogos]

3, 5, 7 - really nice!

[Kathy H]

These are just BEAUTIFUL Lloyd!

I have looked over them several times now and tried to find something wrong with them to critique :lol: it's just not happening!

Except.......in the last shot, to me it gives the feeling of solitude...just the two of them alone in the wilderness, I LOVE it.....then I spotted the roof of some building or so it looks like, down in the left corner. IMO that building subtracts from the initial impact this image had on me.

How's that for nit-picking? lol

[harroz]

wow Loyd. damn, they're amazing!

[JimAskew]

Lloyd,

Another "raise the bar a notch higher" Wedding set. These are just beautiful! I really like #1, #2, and #8. And, I agree with Kathy...crop #8 on the left to the edge of the tree and lose the building :)
[Edit] - Took another look...add #7 to my favorites...two young lovers lost in each other as the world moves around them! Love that composition :-)

[4mr4do4sho]

Inspiring work. You do such an awesome job in displaying the subjects in their environment...something I need practice on. Love 3 and 7. The movement in 7 is cool.

[Catlover]

#2 - Love the tones from the natural light, posing is spot on. I probably would have done something similiar.

#4 - Love this one as well, great backdrop.

#7 - Great capture, love how it shows motion except for the couple.

Definately professional and way above your average wedding photos!

[Christina]

Amazing! All of them. #7 is my favorite. Is there a strobe somewhere or was this all available light? And were these all taken the day of the wedding??

[stathunter]

Good work Lloyd -- I like 4 & 8.

[picturecrazy]

thank you for stoppying by guys!

These are just BEAUTIFUL Lloyd!

I have looked over them several times now and tried to find something wrong with them to critique :lol: it's just not happening!

Except.......in the last shot, to me it gives the feeling of solitude...just the two of them alone in the wilderness, I LOVE it.....then I spotted the roof of some building or so it looks like, down in the left corner. IMO that building subtracts from the initial impact this image had on me.

How's that for nit-picking? lol

haha, yeah I debated over keeping it or not. I'm still not sure yet. The building is what provided all the ambient light for the shot. Otherwise it was pitch black. I couldn't even AF, couldn't even MF through the viewfinder (subjects were all black). I had to focus using the distance scale.

Kathy, Jim, maybe I'll give it a try without the building too. I thought it looked cool but the consensus seems to be no. :lol:

Amazing! All of them. #7 is my favorite. Is there a strobe somewhere or was this all available light? And were these all taken the day of the wedding??

Thanks Christy!

Yes, 7 was available light, as well as 2 and 6. And yes, these were all taken on the day of the wedding! I prefer to provide a good mix of available light shots with flashed shots.

3, 5, 7 - really nice!

wow Loyd. damn, they're amazing!

Thanks guys!


Inspiring work. You do such an awesome job in displaying the subjects in their environment...something I need practice on. Love 3 and 7. The movement in 7 is cool.

Thanks Jeff! Yes, I like to keep the environment in context of most shots. I figure, people choose these places because they love them, right? So I try my best to keep the photos in that context.

#2 - Love the tones from the natural light, posing is spot on. I probably would have done something similiar.

#4 - Love this one as well, great backdrop.

#7 - Great capture, love how it shows motion except for the couple.

Definately professional and way above your average wedding photos!

Thanks Todd! 2 was nice but it was hard to get even light in the shot! I'm not too keen on the shadow running right beside the groom and another more to the left of the frame. It's because the trees were so darn tall!

http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/misc/forumpics/wff/LesleyDaleW/164348_8022.jpg


Good work Lloyd -- I like 4 & 8.

Thanks Scott! It was surely a fun wedding. Since you like 4, here is a variation on it...

http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/misc/forumpics/wff/LesleyDaleW/170049_8733.jpg


Lloyd,

Another "raise the bar a notch higher" Wedding set. These are just beautiful! I really like #1, #2, and #8. And, I agree with Kathy...crop #8 on the left to the edge of the tree and lose the building :)
[Edit] - Took another look...add #7 to my favorites...two young lovers lost in each other as the world moves around them! Love that composition :-)

Great to see you Jim! I like how 7 turned out also. Here is a variation on 1...
http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/misc/forumpics/wff/LesleyDaleW/160653_8633.jpg

[whoadude]

Great set, love the locations. Do you find ever find the 10-22 distorting your couples too much?

[picturecrazy]

Great set, love the locations. Do you find ever find the 10-22 distorting your couples too much?

No I don't. It definitely isn't easy shooting people with an ultrawide lens, but if you do it properly you can really minimize/eliminate distortion. The best way is to first eliminate any perspective distortion from the image by carefully selecting your composition/angle in relation to the people. If you can minimize the difference in relative distance of the people to the lens, it will usually remove almost all of the distortion. It takes a lot of practice though, and I have still yet to master it. :lol:

[tsw910]

FINALLY ! ... its good to see your work again

[SuzyView]

Lloyd. I love how you use UWA lenses for your work. And that last signature shot is amazing. Congrats!

[ejicon]

#8 is just amazing. how did you keep them still for 13 second? I'm impressed.

[form]

I don't understand how you used the EF-S 10-22mm lens on a 1Ds mark III full frame camera. How does that work? Same for the 11-16 - what about vignetting on these cameras?

[shimmishim]

I don't understand how you used the EF-S 10-22mm lens on a 1Ds mark III full frame camera. How does that work? Same for the 11-16 - what about vignetting on these cameras?

Yes, I want to know this as well! :) I remember asking this in another thread before but never got an answer.

How do you use that 10-22 on a FF camera?

[picturecrazy]

#8 is just amazing. how did you keep them still for 13 second? I'm impressed.

Hahaha, tell them to hold it real still. But seriously, I'm using flash to light up the couple and make them sharp. I'm using the big tree to the left as a flag to control the exposure on the couple to keep blur off of them. It's all about light control.

I don't understand how you used the EF-S 10-22mm lens on a 1Ds mark III full frame camera. How does that work? Same for the 11-16 - what about vignetting on these cameras?

Yes, I want to know this as well! :) I remember asking this in another thread before but never got an answer.

How do you use that 10-22 on a FF camera?

You can hack the 10-22 to work on any body. Remove the EF-S baffle and replace it with a suitable EF baffle. The 11-16, and other third party 1.6 crop lenses need no modification. They'll mount to any body, but the ultrawides will vignette at the lower focal lengths.

The 10-22 shows no physical vignetting around 15mm on FF, though falloff is definitely present.

The 11-16 can be used on FF all the way down to around 14mm. 13mm if you can live with some slightly black corners, like if you are shooting in a dark place.

I prefer to use 1.6 crop ultrawides because they are the ONLY lenses that provide a serious UWA view (16mm FF equiv) on ALL THREE formats... 1.6, 1.3 and full frame. NO FF lens can do that, not even the huge sigma 12-24.

http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/misc/forumpics/potn/1022hack/f.jpg


http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=361877

[shimmishim]

Awesome Lloyd! I wasn't on these forums back in August 2007 when you posted that hack. Thanks for sharing (again).

[Karl Johnston]

Amazing work!

[wrussi]

loving the last shot!

[Maureen Souza]

Just gorgeous.... everyone of them! I agree with Kathy about the building....just clone it out and it will be perfecto!

[Ralph Merlino]

Very nice set. You did a great job.

[BrianMC]

Me likes......

[sacral]

this is an outstanding set... :)

[picturecrazy]

Thank you much guys!

Just gorgeous.... everyone of them! I agree with Kathy about the building....just clone it out and it will be perfecto!

I guess people really would rather see the building out. Wow, I must be the only one who actually likes the building there. Makes me wonder what other weird tastes I might have that the majority of others don't like... :D

[EEPalmer]

These are fantastic. I absolutely adore #7.
I haven't posted on the forums before, but have been lurking around for a while trying to get some good advice and inspiration for shots to do at my sister's wedding in June.
These photos are by far my favorite. You did a wonderful job. [=

[collierportraits]

Lloyd, great job as usual. Love the last image you posted. Thanks for continuing to post and give us some good ideas to copy and tweak to our own. I for one, appreciate it.

As to that building, I like it in there as well. Maybe I take comfort from there being some civilization around, I don't know, but I would leave it in. I don't think it detracts from the photo. In fact, it may give the viewer another focal point and make the image more interesting...

[stathunter]

Lloyd, you are a dang show off! But we like it! :)

[ejicon]

thank for sharing that little tid'bit... The flash apparently was key. Good to know

[TristanCardew]

I'm so impressed with these...really, really awesome use of a camera.

I'd be interested to know about the lighting on #4. It is exceptional...I just can't work out how it may have been lit, or whether the clone tool was used so well I can't spot the tell-tale sign...

Again though - amazing!

[picturecrazy]

Lloyd, you are a dang show off! But we like it! :)

Thanks Scott!

These are fantastic. I absolutely adore #7.
I haven't posted on the forums before, but have been lurking around for a while trying to get some good advice and inspiration for shots to do at my sister's wedding in June.
These photos are by far my favorite. You did a wonderful job. [=

Glad you started posting. Participating is the best way to learn quickly! :)

Lloyd, great job as usual. Love the last image you posted. Thanks for continuing to post and give us some good ideas to copy and tweak to our own. I for one, appreciate it.

As to that building, I like it in there as well. Maybe I take comfort from there being some civilization around, I don't know, but I would leave it in. I don't think it detracts from the photo. In fact, it may give the viewer another focal point and make the image more interesting...

Yeah, I thought the building gave it a 'cabin in the woods' type of feel, because it actually was a wood cabin looking thing... oh well. :lol:

thank for sharing that little tid'bit... The flash apparently was key. Good to know

Yes, the flash was absolutely key. You simply cannot do a shot like this without flash. Master flash and it opens up many possibilities.

I'm so impressed with these...really, really awesome use of a camera.

I'd be interested to know about the lighting on #4. It is exceptional...I just can't work out how it may have been lit, or whether the clone tool was used so well I can't spot the tell-tale sign...

Again though - amazing!

The light was hidden behind one of the bridge posts to the right of them. It was shot at 200mm and they're still relatively small in the pic... so I was really far away. Thank goodness for pocketwizards.

[form]

So um, how would I go about getting some creativity like yours?

[Vonzen]

wow.. fantastic images... gotta love all of them... :)

[picturecrazy]

wow.. fantastic images... gotta love all of them... :)

Thanks dood!

So um, how would I go about getting some creativity like yours?

Ummm... I dunno. Just see a bunch of stuff you like and try to copy it. Any photographer who says they've come up with everything they've done completely on their own is lying. No matter what you do, someone out there has already done it. So copy what you like and tweak it to give it your own edge and style.

[TristanCardew]

Ummm... I dunno. Just see a bunch of stuff you like and try to copy it. Any photographer who says they've come up with everything they've done completely on their own is lying. No matter what you do, someone out there has already done it. So copy what you like and tweak it to give it your own edge and style.

Precisely. Words of wisdom.

I just have to comment again, because I like these photos that much. They're inspirational. :D

[e.giftshoppe]

I like 1&8 looks really great.
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[deino]

i can never choose which one i like the most...coz i like em all........huhu....
=)

[yoyoer13]

I really enjoyed looking at all of those. I especially liked the one in the train station with people moving. The Last one with them in the woods is also very enjoyable :)

[sevenlvlv_china]

1.4.5.7very nice

[Kiddo]

Great set of wedding photos!!

[FLiPMaRC]

:cool: Amazing work.

[picturecrazy]

thanks guys. seems people actually like 'em.... LOL

so here's a couple more to add to the mix... hope you like 'em too

http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/blog/09/LesleyDaleW/081956_7757.jpg

http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/blog/09/LesleyDaleW/083219_7731.jpg

http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/blog/09/LesleyDaleW/153933_8596.jpg

http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/blog/09/LesleyDaleW/162948_3363.jpg

http://www.nightanddayphoto.ca/blog/09/LesleyDaleW/151808_8574.jpg

[harroz]

#2 of that last lot is very VERY wikid Loyd!

[Marloon]

how did you adapt a 10-22 on a 1dsIII

[howaboutnow]

WOW!! Great pics. Wish I could afford you lol

[picturecrazy]

how did you adapt a 10-22 on a 1dsIII

Read page 2 of the thread! :)


WOW!! Great pics. Wish I could afford you lol

Congrats! That must mean you are engaged! Where in canada are you located?

[howaboutnow]

Congrats! That must mean you are engaged! Where in canada are you located?

Thanks :) no set date for the wedding yet but it'll come. Do you do engagement shoots? We're in Calgary.

[macie]

i love the b&w. they're awesome.

[picturecrazy]

Thanks :) no set date for the wedding yet but it'll come. Do you do engagement shoots? We're in Calgary.

Yeah, I do e-shoots. I also do a lot of calgary weddings. ;) I used to live in cow town for 21 years.

i love the b&w. they're awesome.

thanks macie :)

[randplaty]

Excellent stuff as usual Lloyd!

[elisesanchez]

I like to be of help but I can't find anything to critique! The rim light on the groom's back on #4 is just amazing. #5 is great. But it seems lacking compared to the rest. You have your couple interact the environment so seamlessly!

[embdaw]

These are all beautiful.

[jmac_baseball]

Man your shots are awesome. I always look forward to your posts.

[picturecrazy]

thanks a bunch guys! :)