My first engagement

Here is my first engagement shoot. Let me know what I can do to make myself better. I'm usually a real estate photographer so this is something completely different. This is straight out of the camera so I haven't did any post processing.

Dead center and cropped at the knees. Feels like a snapshot IMO.

Show us a processed version since this isn't how you intend to finish it.

DagoImaging wrote in post #16444863
Dead center and cropped at the knees. Feels like a snapshot IMO.

Agreed. Got to go wider on that shot. SOOC it is obviously very "dead" looking, color wise. Perhaps better shots from the session are available?

I agree with the others it is not a great crop. Either going wider, or going with a vertical orientation would have been better. Having said that, this is not a bad shot, and with some PP can look pretty good.

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Thanks for the info. David although I thought mine looked OK, you made it look much better. I'm having a lady who is a friend of the future bride who is a genius on Photoshop coming over to work on the brides favorite pics so I know they will look much better than straight out of the camera. Thats why I didn't do any PP. I will definitely show her what you've done and have her fix mine.

I'm not fond of the green/yellow tint on that edit, but at this point it's subjective.

DagoImaging wrote in post #16460448
I'm not fond of the green/yellow tint on that edit, but at this point it's subjective.

Thanks for that. I am working on my uncalibrated laptop, which doesn't have the best colors. Looking at it now (even though still on my laptop), it does look to have a bit of a tint!

I will say it looks exactly like my first engagement session pictures That being said, it's not a horrible photograph. With time you will learn better composition, exposure and posing. Just keep shooting

Thanks Mark! Tonights the night to do PP. I'll post a few in the next day or two.