My First Wedding...

[hb96tuner]

I finally shot my first wedding this weekend past. I was very nervous leading up to it but overall it went well. Thought that I would share a few pics of my first and I would love to hear your opinions, C & C welcome...

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[nicksan]

Decent first attempt.

Watch the skin tones on 2, 6, and 7.
Selective coloring on 3 is a questionable decision.
Some awkward posing on 5 and 7.

[suongdem]

Originally Posted by hb96tuner

I love this picture, She is very nice and happly when have flower on the head.

[Mike]

Nice job for your first attempt, prepare to get flamed for the selective colouring shot - a lot of people here don't much like those but I find that brides do and that's what counts!

And as Nick said, watch out for getting skin tones correct, just bringing down the orange saturation a tiny bit often helps.

[hb96tuner]

Originally Posted by Mike

Nice job for your first attempt, prepare to get flamed for the selective colouring shot - a lot of people here don't much like those but I find that brides do and that's what counts!

And as Nick said, watch out for getting skin tones correct, just bringing down the orange saturation a tiny bit often helps.

Thanks for the reply...as for the selective coloring shot, I gave the bride three copies of this shot... in color, B&W and with the selective coloring. Personally for this on I like the coloring and of the three, the bride loves that one the most also....if the bride is happy, then I am happy, I guess in the end it all comes down to wether the bride like the shots or not.

[hb96tuner]

Originally Posted by nicksan

Decent first attempt.

Watch the skin tones on 2, 6, and 7.
Selective coloring on 3 is a questionable decision.
Some awkward posing on 5 and 7.

I found the skin tones very difficult that day. It was an dull overcast day and I am more used to shooting landscapes with I perfer to do on more sunny days. But overall it was a good first experiance and also was an eye opener for my first wedding...definatly a few things that I will and will not do at my second!

[sainfocus]

good first attempt. Like has already been said, watch your skin tones. Five looks like a snapshot, I don't really like the pose or the look on the girls face on the left. All that needs to be said about selective coloring has been said.

Overall good job for your first.

Jim

[marcus769]

nice pics, def need to work on focus!

[TheBrick3]

As noted, white balance and focus is a problem. It doesn't look like you're using focus points?

Also, for the pictures with EXIF data available, it looks like you dof is too deep. In 1 and 4 shoot wide open, not f/5.6 and f/7.1. 5 and 7 should have been fine at f/4, maybe go to f/5 to be safe but no need to go all the way down to f/7.1. In general, I never shoot deeper than f/5.6 but it's needed in some situations like #6 where you're spot on at f/6.3.

[drumnut01]

Were you shooting in auto or a semi-auto mode with auto ISO? The exposure settings look odd to me. There are some shots where you are at higher ISO settings (250, 320, etc.) when you would have really benefited from a larger aperture. If you're using the 24-105, I would have been wide open on 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7. On the others I would have been no more than 5.6. The focus and white balance is also off in some.