First wedding second shooting, tell me if I suck(30 images)

mpauliempaulie Registered Users Posts: 303 Major grins
edited July 13, 2010 in Weddings
First I want to say how much I appreciate all the information and techniques shared by everyone here, it's such a great wealth of knowledge and I'm truly grateful. I was lucky enough to be able to second shoot this wedding in a beautiful location in the Poconos this past weekend. I tried to prepare as much as possible, reading as much as I could and taking in tonnes of beautiful imagery of types of shots I'd like to do.

The wedding party were all great people and a lot of fun and I had a bunch of creative, romantic and fun ideas to shoot for the B&G and the wedding party. The primary photog was all about doing them as well after we got all the formals done. We were only able to do bridal party shots between the ceremony and the reception and unfortunately I didn't get to do any of the shots I had hoped to. They kept adding more family shots and the family they wanted were taking a long time to round up. It also didn't help that the bridal party had started drinking early and often before the wedding, but I can't blame them they were having a good time. The primary photog asked a few times during the reception if we could do more shots of them but they needed time to get around to all the guests still, so what can you do.

So here are a bunch of shots (I hope not too many!) I would love some critique on... In my minds eye the style of my shots are different then what I see here. I didn't get different angles of things like the dress and more creative shots during the ceremony and throughout. I guess being my first time everything I wanted to do didn't translate into what I did and the shots I took. What a great time it was though!

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Comments

  • AgnieszkaAgnieszka Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,263 Major grins
    edited July 8, 2010
    Wohoooo!!! No, I think you did GREAT! clap.gif

    #7 is scary tough ... looks like hair is growing out of her mouth rolleyes1.gif
    #20 Too bad you have that huge sun flare on your pic. I am a bit fan of sun flare, but this is too much .... if you do it very carefully you can clone it out, I'd give it a try thumb.gif
  • heatherfeatherheatherfeather Registered Users Posts: 2,738 Major grins
    edited July 8, 2010
    I think you did really great too!

    Your comps are good... focus good... conversions good... The one general thing that I can see to work on is skin tones in your color shots. They seem a bit red, which will happen when you bump the contrast. Check out the Dgrin tutorials on skintones, and it will help a bunch!

    But seriously... for a first go at it, you did stellar!
  • ssersser Registered Users Posts: 233 Major grins
    edited July 8, 2010
    Looks fine with me too, great flash lighting too
  • mpauliempaulie Registered Users Posts: 303 Major grins
    edited July 8, 2010
    Agnieszka wrote: »
    Wohoooo!!! No, I think you did GREAT! clap.gif

    #7 is scary tough ... looks like hair is growing out of her mouth rolleyes1.gif
    #20 Too bad you have that huge sun flare on your pic. I am a bit fan of sun flare, but this is too much .... if you do it very carefully you can clone it out, I'd give it a try thumb.gif

    hahaha yes I thought #7 was a funny capture with the extension in her mouth
    I agree about #20, the flare wasn't intended, I'll give it a go to try and clone it out... wish me luck
    I think you did really great too!

    Your comps are good... focus good... conversions good... The one general thing that I can see to work on is skin tones in your color shots. They seem a bit red, which will happen when you bump the contrast. Check out the Dgrin tutorials on skintones, and it will help a bunch!

    But seriously... for a first go at it, you did stellar!

    Thanks for the heads up about the red, I know I have that tutorial bookmarked somewhere I'll have get on it.

    I really appreciate that you took a look and commented because I very much admire both of yours work.iloveyou.gif
  • mpauliempaulie Registered Users Posts: 303 Major grins
    edited July 8, 2010
    sser wrote: »
    Looks fine with me too, great flash lighting too

    Thanks sser, all on camera bounced off the ceiling :D
  • mmmattmmmatt Registered Users Posts: 1,347 Major grins
    edited July 9, 2010
    Looks like you did a great job for your first wedding!!! Lots of nice work here and not a lot of typical rookie mistakes.

    Matt
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  • mpauliempaulie Registered Users Posts: 303 Major grins
    edited July 9, 2010
    mmmatt wrote: »
    Looks like you did a great job for your first wedding!!! Lots of nice work here and not a lot of typical rookie mistakes.

    Matt


    clap.gifThanks Matt! I think I definitely made rookie mistakes, it was good experience and I'd love to do it again for more. I had my share of missed focus, bad settings and bad lighting. I culled 1200 shots down to 460 that I thought were usable!
  • mpauliempaulie Registered Users Posts: 303 Major grins
    edited July 9, 2010
    And in case anyone wants to know where that skin tones how-to is... http://www.smugmug.com/help/red-skin-tones

    Worked great
  • kevinpwkevinpw Registered Users Posts: 124 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2010
    nice pictures :) you were the second shooter?
  • adpaceadpace Registered Users Posts: 260 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2010
    I also think you did a fantastic job! WTG!
  • WeiselWeisel Registered Users Posts: 235 Major grins
    edited July 11, 2010
    LOVE it. You totally rocked it for a second shooting gig. I agree with the skin tone thing. That's all that caught my eye in a less than good way. Overall, really nice stuff.
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  • mpauliempaulie Registered Users Posts: 303 Major grins
    edited July 12, 2010
    kevinpw wrote: »
    nice pictures :) you were the second shooter?

    Thanks Kevin! yes I was the second shooter
    adpace wrote: »
    I also think you did a fantastic job! WTG!

    wings.gifivar Thank you!
    Weisel wrote: »
    LOVE it. You totally rocked it for a second shooting gig. I agree with the skin tone thing. That's all that caught my eye in a less than good way. Overall, really nice stuff.

    Thanks! and thanks to Heather as well for pointing out the red tones, I was able to fix them using the method from the link above. Here is one of the shots corrected...

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    Thank you for all the comments, critique and support from my first try at this. :D I hope I get the chance to do more and gain more experience.
  • heatherfeatherheatherfeather Registered Users Posts: 2,738 Major grins
    edited July 13, 2010
    mpaulie wrote: »



    Thanks! and thanks to Heather as well for pointing out the red tones, I was able to fix them using the method from the link above. Here is one of the shots corrected...


    Much MUCH better! clap.giflust
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