09-22-2007 - Tara & Ryan

AGREED!!!!!! I was having such a hard time in the church with the no flash rule. Ugh!

#1 is awesome! You always get the good looking brides!

Tony, trust me, this is not always the case!!

like I said in the chat thread... awesome work buddy! Like 'em a lot! Still not a fan of that HORRID lens (oh wait... I meant HOLGA) but it's always fun to experiement.

NIce stuff as usually - my favs are 6, 7, 10 and 14 - I love the sign in 14 - makes for a cute mermory. I'm not a big fan of the soft focus on 15 it seems to strong.

Great captures. Love the colors.
LuisE

Outstanding work! #2 is my absolute fav... and #14 is a riot! Very creative. I like #1 but am not too crazy about the orientation - I would have preferred the bride more towards the right of the frame. Still, awesome work.

I love these Jeff! I love how you used the sign! They will love these. I think you should up your prices and quit your day job.

The only one that bothers me is her eye in #8. It looks too blue but maybe I am not seeing it right. I don't know if I am a big fan of the last one either. I have never heard of Holga, but don't tell me I don't need to add to my list of wants. I am going to go check out your blog now.

Hey Jeff!

Love the shots - wish I could have been there to shoot w/ you! Denise - looking forward to your shots.

1. Love the back lighting and B&W conversion. If I were to be extremely nitpicky, I'd say that I wished she was a tiny bit to the right, but, even still, I love the shot!

2. Amazing! One of my favorite shots I've seen from you (I know I say that often, but that just means you keep bettering yourself! I love the PP on this too man!

3. Love the DOF and the bokeh in this one. Stellar! Great pose, what a great looking couple too!

4. Wow, look at them eyes! Man - this is amazing! Again, only nitpick is that I wish her hand wasn't up on his chest, it almost looks like she's pushing him away. But everything else makes up for it. Amazing colors - is this with the 40D?

5. I love this toogy-style pose! What a unique, creative pose! Man, this is your best toogy-pose yet!

6. Neat idea, I'm not sure if it works for me though. Great execution and PP, I just don't know, it sort of makes me sick lol

7. LOL what an awesome idea! Hilarious. I love the colors though! 40D?

8. Great! Again - colors! My god! 40D?

9. Great pose, I love this! I love the processing too! Fantastic

10. What a nice "Detail" shot - looks like the lighting was nice in the church, yeah?

11. Great shot/conversion. I love hands (as I'm sure you can tell from my last batch of shots)

12. Classic. I love it. My god man what's your processing on these? Or is the the colors out of the 40D? It's so creamy and so silky smooth! She looks gorgeous though!

13. Neat idea. Love the flare.

14. LOL at first I was like "Hey, is it framed like that?", until my eyes saw the sign - hilarious!

15. It's neat, and, new ... but, I don't know if I'm wild on it. There is some outline on her face that looks awkward.

All in all man, wow, I'm totally impressed! I Love this new style of processing too

Kai wrote in post #3993157
I love these Jeff! I love how you used the sign! They will love these. I think you should up your prices and quit your day job.

Yup, if you aren't full-time in 6 moths, you're missing out on a lot man. These are amazing.

Wow.. very impressed with your work.

I really like your take on Abbey Road and like others am very fond of #14, the image is priceless.

Bryan, it's funny, half the shots you praise as being the 40D, where actually the 30D/70-200 combo

But the 40D does ROCK!!

1. Ok but i'd have put her on the right of frame and left space where she was looking towards.
2. Great location and lighting, terrible expression and basically from the neck up I don't like it. It's like she's staring off into space, zoned out. No emotion.
3. Nice, distracting tail light, don't like the angle.
4. Nice capture of his emotion.
5. Great.
6. ok, I know what you were going for, it's good but now wow.
7. Nice moment.
8. It's another shot of people walking.
9. Quite cool. Dress is blown out, I don't much like the angle.
10/11. I see nothing very interesting in these shots. These shots can be nice but these are pretty ordinary.
12. Nice.
13. Ok. It's people walking. I guess it shows an area they were, perhaps an important area to them.
14. Cool. Nice kiss, funny sign.
15. I really like this one.

Overall... average work by your standards, with a couple of great shots. Sure they're pretty and they're cool. Don't let everyone here telling you you're great go to your head. While you're very good I think you have the potential to be great. I'd stop trying to make pretty shots and get back to basics, capturing the emotion and feelings of the wedding day. Go post on the DWF and get useful critique from the real pros, rather than posting here for an ego boost.

My Turn!

Here are my favorites from the day. Tried some new light room presets and loving it!

ummm...might get in trouble for this but I am posting as attachments so there is more than a few posts..sorry mods*bats pretty eyelashes* I am still new at this.

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