Please C/C our Wedding Portfolio

Our name's Unreal Photographs from Mexico and we're pretty interested in your input as we are aware there's always room for improving and we think the people that post in this forum are pretty savy...

Please feel free to elaborate if you feel our work is worth it, we want to show this to our new costumers and be sure we're doing the right thing...

http://www.unrealphoto​graphs.com/diegoyana/s​lideshow

(Watch in fullscreen) and thanks in advance

Looked at a few, and while you did capture some nice moments, the focus and white balance are all over the place. there are a few where you nailed to focus and exposure etc, but sadly they are few and far between. Have you been doing this long? Just wondering. Candids are nicely done, again, the focus seems soft in so many.

You may want to take a few that you really want C&C on and post them here, just to see what you could change in order to get them correctly photographed next session?

Weddings are all encompassing in all aspects. You want them to have great photos to show off.Big Day. One time to get it right.

Nice photos. But some serious focus issues

what gallery are you all looking at? I am not seeing what you are...seriously. I am looking at these on my new MacBook Pro and they look wonderful using safari. Really... I am not seeing any focusing problems... not a one.

It would be interesting to see what all are using to view these. Perhaps there is a problem with some Codecs and your presentation software.

My only gripe is do you really need a show of 300 plus images to sell your business? It may be a little over kill.

Mac....Snow Leopard. Calibrated.

Watching full screen as presented, and yep, big time focusing issues.

Completely off subject... but could you give me the number of a couple of the photos you see as being way off.... just curious why they look ok on mine - or if we aren't looking at the same ones. Are you running OS X 10.8 (12A269)?

I hate to have someone put this much work into something only to have it look dramatically different on different machines - even two Macs. Not supposed to happen. Worse case, it would be interesting to do a couple of screen grabs to compare.

Anyway....

your time is greatly appreciated as much as your opinions and feel grateful for that... i'm downloading this photos from my Zenfolio managed website and will post 20 of them for you to take a closer look at them...

Regards Croasdail and Flo n Erikfig...

Flo wrote in post #14805919
Mac....Snow Leopard. Calibrated.

Watching full screen as presented, and yep, big time focusing issues.

I have to agree. If some images look sharp and others don't, it seems unreasonable to blame the equipment they're being viewed on...some of those images are just NOT sharp! I like many of the ideas though...just get the technique sorted!

Here are some randomly picked images, cc are so welcomed regarding pp, framing, etc... thanks for your time:

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The first 2 images I would crop differently.

The first image, I'd crop it to an 8 X 10 portrait orientation and get rid of the photographers on the side. These images should be about the bride and groom.

The second image looks unbalanced because there is nothing on the left side of the image. I'd crop off some of the left side to better balance it. I'd also increase the red saturation - the car and the roses look faded.

I have looked at most of your images and although probably quite acceptable for someone needing a record of their special day they do seem to be lacking in a professional approach to wedding photography.

Indeed there are some good shots which show planning and forethought there are also a lot that are no more than snapshots which could have been taken by anyone with a decent modern camera.

When viewed in slideshow mode there does seem to be focus issues with most of the shots looking a bit soft, in gallery mode things look a bit better but the pictures are smaller, perhaps the slideshow software is doing some funny things.

Just picking a few at random here are my observations:

Pic 5. Womans foot cut off at right side.
Pic 66. Arm cropped on left side.
Pic 71. Poor lghting, too much flare.
Pic 96. Not very flattering, especially to the woman in the centre.
Pic 227. Focus is on the flower pots and not the people.

Regarding the picture you recently posted on here:

1. Lighting poorly balanced, too much flare from outside.
2 Needs cropping at left side, white dress burnt out, colours odd.
3. Greater DOF would have helped.
4. Out of Level.
5. More DOF needed to get all lamps in focus.
6. Table cut off at right side.
7. Brides dress cut off at bottom.
8. Nice advertising shot for Bulova but doesn't really work .... if you are trying to show whether he is early or late then you need something more in the shot.

As I said above they would probably be considered OK by people wanting a record of their day but if you ask for opinions in a photo enthusiasts forum then most people will view them from a technical standpoint and I think you can expect to get judged quite critically, especially as you are presenting these shots as the product of your professional endeavour.

Ramon-uk wrote in post #14808620
I have looked at most of your images and although probably quite acceptable for someone needing a record of their special day they do seem to be lacking in a professional approach to wedding photography.

Indeed there are some good shots which show planning and forethought there are also a lot that are no more than snapshots which could have been taken by anyone with a decent modern camera.

When viewed in slideshow mode there does seem to be focus issues with most of the shots looking a bit soft, in gallery mode things look a bit better but the pictures are smaller, perhaps the slideshow software is doing some funny things.

Just picking a few at random here are my observations:

Pic 5. Womans foot cut off at right side.
Pic 66. Arm cropped on left side.
Pic 71. Poor lghting, too much flare.
Pic 96. Not very flattering, especially to the woman in the centre.
Pic 227. Focus is on the flower pots and not the people.

Regarding the picture you recently posted on here:

1. Lighting poorly balanced, too much flare from outside.
2 Needs cropping at left side, white dress burnt out, colours odd.
3. Greater DOF would have helped.
4. Out of Level.
5. More DOF needed to get all lamps in focus.
6. Table cut off at right side.
7. Brides dress cut off at bottom.
8. Nice advertising shot for Bulova but doesn't really work .... if you are trying to show whether he is early or late then you need something more in the shot.

As I said above they would probably be considered OK by people wanting a record of their day but if you ask for opinions in a photo enthusiasts forum then most people will view them from a technical standpoint and I think you can expect to get judged quite critically, especially as you are presenting these shots as the product of your professional endeavour.

Well said. I agree on all points.

Ricardo222 wrote in post #14807382
I have to agree. If some images look sharp and others don't, it seems unreasonable to blame the equipment they're being viewed on...some of those images are just NOT sharp! I like many of the ideas though...just get the technique sorted!

Ok... so which ones are you referring to that don't look good. Generalized statements just don't move things forward very much. Is it half, a few, most..... please point to some example of what you are considering overly out of focus. The slides are numbered.... I want to see what you all are seeing.

"8. Nice advertising shot for Bulova but doesn't really work .... if you are trying to show whether he is early or late then you need something more in the shot.:

Actually I will disagree. Everyone who is viewing these shots (the person paying for this work) knows what time the event was. The context is given. Now from a random portfolio shot - I agree. Those who were not at the event have no idea what the significance of that time is. In a bridal book, this is a great shot.

I think we are looking at these images a little out of context here. This is for a wedding album, not a photo contest. Most of them are fine as is. The biggest flaw I do see in one shot that was already pointed out is that the dress in the one shot is terribly blown out. Unfortunate. But 9 out of 10 brides (and bride's mom) would not have caught this.

SO it just depends on the context under which you are viewing these. Now if there are grossly out of focus shots... that is a problem. I want to see some of these.

So, busy but I looked through at the REGULAR size, not full screen as the OP suggests. Big Difference in clarity.The OP really ought to check out why in full screen they are so OOF and wonky. Really bad for advertising watching full screen, I would have by passed in a second if looking for a photographer.
Now I see what you saw Croas..look at it full screen, and you will see what we all were viewing.

To the OP, I would disable the full screen option, It is not doing you any favors.

Croasdail wrote in post #14810574
To the OP, I would disable the full screen option, It it not doing you any favors.

thanks for your time, i totally should deactivate full screen viewing thru Zenfolio's gallery configuration, i realize that some pictures are less than 850 px wide and the others that don't look soft are above 1350 px and some are over 2000 px......

Ramon-uk wrote in post #14808620
I have looked at most of your images and although probably quite acceptable for someone needing a record of their special day they do seem to be lacking in a professional approach to wedding photography.

Indeed there are some good shots which show planning and forethought there are also a lot that are no more than snapshots which could have been taken by anyone with a decent modern camera.

That's why we wanted c n c and i have to take the heat when you say they don't look more than a mere snapshot.. just learn from that and i think we're going to take into account every observation....

Ramon-uk wrote in post #14808620
Just picking a few at random here are my observations:

Pic 5. Womans foot cut off at right side.
Pic 66. Arm cropped on left side.
Pic 71. Poor lghting, too much flare.
Pic 96. Not very flattering, especially to the woman in the centre.
Pic 227. Focus is on the flower pots and not the people.

i had to tell you that the pictures are played in random order... so i'll have to figure out what pictures are you talking about....

Flo wrote in post #14809332
Well said. I agree on all points.

i do agree too in most of the points...