First Paid Wedding

I just shot my first paid wedding. It was very stressful, but I enjoyed it a lot. Here are a few of my favorite shots from the day.

#2 is kind if weird for a wedding pic

i personally think the first shot is beautiful maybe too blurred on the left or not enough on the right?

#4: wedding dress is too dark and slightly odd angle?
#7: too blurred and dark, his head is slightly chopped off
#8: need a better crop, too much space on the left

cappz wrote in post #11425398
i personally think the first shot is beautiful maybe too blurred on the left or not enough on the right?

#4: wedding dress is too dark and slightly odd angle?
#7: too blurred and dark, his head is slightly chopped off
#8: need a better crop, too much space on the left

Thanks for the critique

good work! I think your focus as you do more of these is on lighting...although I am basically referring to first one of the ceremony (#5?), and that can be tough. Cool angle at the couple in that one...

The kiss looks OOF...which sucks because it's one of the most important moments.

Not a terrible job, but I would up your ISO on the ceremony photos. The 40D can handle a 1250 ISO with no problem and I rather have grain than motion blur. 1/13th of a second is too slow, especially when you are going for a moment as important as the kiss.

auroraskye wrote in post #11433948
Not a terrible job, but I would up your ISO on the ceremony photos. The 40D can handle a 1250 ISO with no problem and I rather have grain than motion blur. 1/13th of a second is too slow, especially when you are going for a moment as important as the kiss.

I agree with you. I switched cameras and hadn't changed my settings unfortunately.

i'm looking forward to shooting my first event soon too - i imagine it must be easy to forget settings while under such pressure - 4 is beautiful btw

dkim82 wrote in post #11444406
i'm looking forward to shooting my first event soon too - i imagine it must be easy to forget settings while under such pressure - 4 is beautiful btw

You are right about that! What made things really difficult with the ceremony was that it was one of those places that you pay a certain amount to use and the owner was not willing to let me come in and scope things out ahead of time so I had to totally wing it. Then the pastor that was supposed to officiate ended up having to go to the hospital, so the bride ended up having to pay the guy that opened up the church for us to do it since he was licensed.

Cool. Good Job. I liked it. Good start.

How did the bride handle the officiate not being there, when she first found out? Wow. Talk about panic potential. I've seen brides melt down over less...

BTW, I don't think I've ever seen a bridal shot from the front looking at the guests. You won't likely be able to pull THAT off in too many places. I don't think I would ever do that, it is intruding into their moment just a bit too much. How many people were looking at the photographer on the altar and not them? Even if it is a casual event and you were using a zoom, I think that is bad wedding photog manners. Thoughts?

Like the first one a lot.

suecassidy wrote in post #11450838
BTW, I don't think I've ever seen a bridal shot from the front looking at the guests. You won't likely be able to pull THAT off in too many places. I don't think I would ever do that, it is intruding into their moment just a bit too much. How many people were looking at the photographer on the altar and not them? Even if it is a casual event and you were using a zoom, I think that is bad wedding photog manners. Thoughts?

This is a good point. I wanted to make sure that I could get the shot so I may have been a little bit too intrusive. I couldn't think of another way to get a good angle of the faces. The ceremony was VERY short and I kind of had to get the best shots I could in a really short period of time.