her dress and the steps are creating this dizzying effect on me, man. >_< sorry.

Originally Posted by ziggy53 The bride and groom have been sharpened to taste, the bride's gown maybe a bit too much at the bottom. The resulting composite:

This image is way over sharpened...I can see a halo around the arm of husband and down his pant leg...a sure sign of over sharpening. And, your right, the dress is, at least at the bottom, not good.

I am thinking bride and groom before...and now husband and wife.

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steps taken?

I dont like blurring in processing .

ignore most of the edits suggested, except *maybe* a touch of warm. Literally about 10 degrees. Lens, DOF, exposure all look great.

Some posing suggestions are helpful: switching B+G (although I like the groom where he is really, as a bookend to the dark tire which I would compose to include.. more later), and maybe putting her hand right on the door instead of her forearm (makes arm look shortened). I usually like to keep her bouquet included in stuff like this, unless it's ginormous.

The main suggestion would be composition, shifting view to the left to put the couple to the right of the frame, about the 1/3 mark. This will show a bit more of the car, probably that front wheel or the hood ornament, which completes the frame in my opinion.

Something else, that I'm trying to work on as well, is include more options besides kissing in set-up shots like this one. Get them in the right place and have everything figured out, then CREATE a moment (other than kissing). Takes more rapport and dialogue, but heads-together or laughing or one looking at camera and other not, etc. Inject some life into what you've already worked hard to create time/space to set up :) Easier said than done, and it's always easier to fallback on the 'stand over there and kiss' option... but after a while you have way too many kissing shots. *points finger at himself*

After all that, it's still a great image

That last edit by Pandaghost is actually one of my fave styles (a bit of 'cross processing') that includes warmer whites/yellows but bluer shadows ... BUT you have to be careful when doing this for weddings (VSCO users listen up). This changes blues and greens so much that brides will notice that 'their colors' are no longer 'their colors'. You should hopefully notice before they do! Notice his cummerbund and tie in that edit.

Great posed shot! Not much to critique. If anything I would crop off more of the steps and get more car in the image.