My Niece's Wedding

Wedding was in Lake Tahoe; snowing in the morning, but cleared out for the reception.

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#1 picture the background looks fake... were all these on green screen?

#1 great sunset pic
exposure and flash look pretty well matched
my only nic is that both pics are cropped a little awkwardly. both could use a little more chest especially on her

enuff4life wrote in post #17067213
#1 picture the background looks fake... were all these on green screen?

While I realize it was not your intent, you have perhaps paid me the greatest compliment ever. Sorry to burst your bubble but the background is indeed created by God.

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I would rework the 2nd photo as it's quite under exposed with red skin tones. If you can, smooth out the bride's skin. Editing is destructive process and makes skin look old. All females want to look younger
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I think they're both under exposed. The second more than the first. Though I may be wrong but I n the first it looks like you tried to bring back their exposure in pp as evidenced by noise with a low ISO. In The second pic, her teeth are too white which makes it obviously done in pp. What kind of flash did you use?

Edit: I see what happened. Your aperture and ISO were too low for the flash to have enough power. Usually when it gets darker it's better to raise the ISO, and widen the aperture to give you flash more room with power. Or you bring your flash in closer.

There are parts about the first photo which lead me to believe that it is indeed clipped. You say it isn't a composite, but it definitely doesn't look natural.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad shot - it just looks like a composite (which isn't bad either).

OP can you explain this,if you say it's not a composite:
Weird light at the top of the veil from a light source yet it's not visible on other parts of the veil. It seems in this image this is where the sun was...
Weird line shadow at the bottom that doesn't match anything
Black water ripples you see on the left side of the veil doesn't show through, yet further to the right,it shows the water through it.

dmitrim wrote in post #17071304
OP can you explain this,if you say it's not a composite:
Weird light at the top of the veil from a light source yet it's not visible on other parts of the veil. It seems in this image this is where the sun was...
Weird line shadow at the bottom that doesn't match anything
Black water ripples you see on the left side of the veil doesn't show through, yet further to the right,it shows the water through it.

Also the white line on the groom's back right behind the shoulder...rim light?

Looks like they were exposed for the sky then the exposure on the couple was increased in post. Sorry, but first 2 don't look very good IMO and they still need post processing work.

I'll bet your niece and her husband loved them, that's all that counts.

Rocky Rhode wrote in post #17069366
While I realize it was not your intent, you have perhaps paid me the greatest compliment ever. Sorry to burst your bubble but the background is indeed created by God.

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I don't doubt that the BG was actually where you were shooting, but that is absolutely a composite. Zoomed at 100%, your sloppy masking is VERY apparent.

Sorry dude but these photos are rough.. If you are going to shoot portraits at night, you need some kind of flash.. These look horribly under exposed

p27rpy wrote in post #17078619
I don't doubt that the BG was actually where you were shooting, but that is absolutely a composite. Zoomed at 100%, your sloppy masking is VERY apparent.

Sorry to be harsh, but of these photos are pretty rough.

Busted! "Rough" is putting it nicely.

It appears that god didn't do the masking here.