Wedding Ceremony shots

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Yikes thats a busy room!!

On the first one perhaps bring the highlights down in the window behind the bride's head, it pulls my eye right away from the B&G.

Watch the cropping on the second one, you've lost the tiniest fraction of the groom's shoe, and there is an awkward pillar creeping in bottom right that could be cloned out. Could also use the horizon being levelled?

I agree.....there's a whole lot going on there. Plus these look out of focus. Not sure why you'd be shooting with such a high ISO and then a shutter speed of 1/8000.

Why on earth are shooting at 1/8000 and 6400 ISO?? You should try and keep your ISO as low as possible (esp on 5ds) and shoot at lower shutter speed

While I like #1, not having the pastor/minister in focus is distracting, as he is centered.

I like the angle of #2 better and I'd crop off that thingy at the top, and straiten a smidge

This is definitely a 'do what you can' situation with all the distractions in the room.

That's an unusual looking wedding dress!!

As others have already said, very bizarre setting and the venue isn't great so you're always going to be struggling. Are these the best you have of the ceremony?

BlackBull wrote in post #18196764
That's an unusual looking wedding dress!!

As others have already said, very bizarre setting and the venue isn't great so you're always going to be struggling. Are these the best you have of the ceremony?

My first thought as well. Looks like there's nothing under there but her.

At first I thought the dress was see-through until I noticed the fabric color spread outward toward the bottom. It's light color showing that much and the shadow on her cheek have me wondering if you used flash or other lighting. Did you use lights in the ceremony?

If that's the case, it's a lesson for me to remember, not to use that kind of light with a dress like that. I like the low angle in the first image.

The shots don't "wow" me, but the look okay.

I don't do weddings if I can help it...but people yes...I try to tell them to take crap out of their pockets...the groom has something in his pocket that shows up badly.

The shadow on her face is a distraction.The second one is tilted. Camera setting are way off IMO.


They are ok images.

BlackBull wrote in post #18196764
That's an unusual looking wedding dress!!

As others have already said, very bizarre setting and the venue isn't great so you're always going to be struggling. Are these the best you have of the ceremony?

I have this one...

Thank you for the replies everyone. I really appreciate the energy to point out specific things.

Blue suits needs black shoes, imho

They look slightly out of focus to me as well. Looking at the exif data if thats right, why would you be shooting at iso 64000 @ 1.4 - i think id have been tempted to close down the aperture a bit, even to say 2.8 and lowered your ISO, this may have resulted in a cleaner image. Its not bad and it is a tricky shot being heavily back lit and so much "stuff" going on.

LucasCK wrote in post #18195840
Why on earth are shooting at 1/8000 and 6400 ISO?? You should try and keep your ISO as low as possible (esp on 5ds) and shoot at lower shutter speed

JUST THINKING THE SAME THING!!!!

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It looks like the available lighting at the venue was tricky judging by the shadows under their eye sockets... BUT you could have dropped the shutter speed and ISO for cleaner files. There is simply no need to shoot at 1/8000 at ISO 6400.

I'm not a fan of the upward shooting angle or framing / cropping that you've chosen. Very few women who are not catwalk models will look good viewed from this upward position. For men, it is an entirely different story as it creates the impression of heroism.