Bride and Groom Shoot at Observatory Hill. C&C welcome

Can you beat a view such as this? Probably, but I'm a tad bias

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Certainly a nice location but I have to admit my eye is immediately drawn to the background rather than the bride and groom !!!

Third one is the best. More about them then the background. Why is he carrying the flowers in 2?

lovely set of images. #2 is too sharp for my taste; you can hardly distinguish the couple from the background

1 - Couple could do with being framed a little to the right. Background separation with bridge being secondary subject. Atm the positioning detracts from both the couple and the bridge.

2- perspective distortion could be fixed (verticals... see leaning tower on left edge of frame). Some selective dodging and burning could help with the foreground / background separation.

3- Horizon tilted, needs fixing. Subject placement / angle of shot could have been better so to avoid branches going into the heads. There is some clear white sky just to the left of him which would have been better placement for their heads.

4- As with 3 subject placement in relation to background is an issue. Tree branches coming from head detract in the image.

Whilst all the shots are well exposed, clean and crisp and the couple will no doubt like all of them they all could have been better with more attention being played to subject placement / framing.

1&2 are too busy in the back. 3 is a much better composition and i was distracted by the branches in 4th.

Tough crowd! Lovely shots.

Nice! Though I would have tried to keep some sky rather than over exposing it.

I bet your couple were pleased with them all. For me, No.3 is the standout, and I don't see an issue with the horizon really, since the couple are upright and most significant in the composition. Good job.

I really like when there are some wide shots that allow the environment in. I'm sure there are plenty of tight shots for faces, details, and emotion, but I really like getting images like these that look awesome a 2 page spreads

kbColorado wrote in post #17657250
Tough crowd! Lovely shots.

I agree.

I love #2 (it's actually my favourite of the set) and I think you're in the right direction there. Ethereal, creamy, bokehlicious, out of focus backgrounds are so common nowadays as to be boring. What went wrong in that photo was the lighting. If you look at the landscapes of the great masters, you'll see that everything is essentially sharp in their paintings, both the main subject and the distant buildings or other landscape elements—but those same features were made darker than the main subject, and that's how the latter stood out. You can accomplish the same effect by underexposing the background and correctly exposing your subjects. This, of course, is the province of flash, you cannot accomplish the same effect with natural light (even though the sun helped you [or was smartly recruited by you as a rim light] there to create some separation).