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Here's a few from a wedding we shot today. Fire at will.

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The bridesmaids could've used the slightest bit of fill flash, but all in all an excellent job! Thank goodness for that Pacific northwest overcast providing that nice soft light, huh?

I guess the real acid-test will be the once-over by Stari.
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i have to agree with Bob on the bridesmaids. i think that a light reflecting off a gold disk would have added just the touch of soft light to the picture. but it can be hard to set all that up when ur shooting that many photos for a wedding> can't think of everything and the customer will like them regardless... nice job steve
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weddings look fun but i would get nervous
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Been to one (my own) no rush to go back!
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weddings look fun but i would get nervous


I don't think I'll ever touch weddings, though my soccer-mom friend insists I'll be doing her two daughters' weddings. My sister, a 30year pro, won't ever touch a wedding again. She's been trampled by crazed horses and she'll get right back in the arena, but she won't do another wedding.

There's a reason PPA offers liability insurance to wedding photographers at a very different premium than to other photographers. Them Bridezillas and Motherzillas is crazy.

More power to Stari and Steve.
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Is it a bad thing if i am not interested in shooting people??
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acid-test

I'm not that hard on people am I? Ok maybe on Floppy I am. hehe He's a good guy!

Weddings can be by far the hardest, most stress full, fast moving, low light, one chance to get it, happiest, loving, tear jerking, fating, hair pulling, most rewarding, type of photography. And I feel lucky to get to spend their biggest day ever with them, capturing images that they will have forever. (just my .02) hey that almost sounds like an ad.

I would say over all they look good. But I do need to point some little thing out that most customers will not see but you know I have to say something after the acid-test thing.

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Looks good, watch the white flowers not getting blown out.

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Wow, is he really that short? (I know he is on his knees ) maybe back up a bit that way he doesn't look like a wee little man. There is a little green color casts on dress under arm, maybe from grass bounced light. I know they are picnic benches over his head (in background) but it kind of looks like a bad clone job. you may want to brush it out. I like this image you can see the love and happiness.

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The hands, hmmm Every wedding I do I keep telling myself its about the bride. Ok, she wants some of him too but in this shot make her ring the subject. Their hands are the background and the dress is the hands background, Show her ring off. Remember it's all about her (oh I didn't say that did I)

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Other than what people said about fill flash on bridesmaids (which looks like it was high noon, ISA 200 shutter 400) Try taking them under a tree (in shade area) with some fill flash. You can expose for the sun lit grass and use your flash to bounce some light in those eyes,under chin etc...

Floppy I think your wedding party will be very happy, I would love to see more from that day.

Great Job! ready to do a lot of weddings? Maybe I can talk you in doing some at my wedding next year.
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Sally said
Is it a bad thing if i am not interested in shooting people??


Oh no it's not a bad thing. I love everything photography so bring it on. I photograph almost anything and if I haven't it because I haven't be ask to or haven't thought about it yet.

I do, do (hehe I said do do)(sorry I'm tired it's 4:14am) photograph mostly people for one main reason People pay and I do this full time.
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I'm not that hard on people am I?


No, no! I didn't mean you were rough on people, just that you were the authority here on wedding photography. The rest of us can give feedback but yours is given from the vantage point of direct experience.
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No, no! I didn't mean you were rough on people, just that you were the authority here on wedding photography. The rest of us can give feedback but yours is given from the vantage point of direct experience

I was just kidding Bob I was just playing with you because I haven't been on here much, kind of missing everyone. Anyway I don't know about authority part. I try to learn something new every day too.
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Excellent feedback! Thank you!

I seem to be having some issues with color shifting from PS to web, probably a monitor calibration issue being as I've never calibrated it. Anyone have any suggestions?

Here's a link to the rest of this wedding shoot;

http://spiritsgate.smugmug.com/gallery/ 6033383_sixyv#377708314_zezmi
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starimagephoto wrote:
I'm not that hard on people am I? Ok maybe on Floppy I am. hehe ;) He's a good guy!


Actually, I'm one of those weirdos that prefers an honest and straightforward critique, especially from a working professional. Be cruel! I love it!
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I seem to be having some issues with color shifting from PS to web, probably a monitor calibration issue being as I've never calibrated it. Anyone have any suggestions?


What are your JPG compression parameters?

I would imagine that if your pics look good in PS (and you proof them outside of PS before you put them on the web, right?), they'd look the same on the web as long as you're looking at them with the same monitor. (I've got serious calibration issues between my monitor and my printer, but PS-on-the-monitor and web-on-the-monitor show no discernible color change for me.)

The only thing I could think of it that you might be compressing the JPG images so tightly before sending the image to the web that the lossy compression is causing a clipping of color ranges.

Are you really getting an actual shifting of colors, or is it just a flattening of the colors?
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maybe you can try comparing the parameters of the same one picture before and after publishing to determine for sure if this is where the discrepancy is occurring
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OrcaBob wrote:
Are you really getting an actual shifting of colors, or is it just a flattening of the colors?


After I post to the web (I.E. this site) it seems like they lose some contrast and brightness. hmmmm I'll have to look into it more this weekend when I get time. Fall quarter just started and these instructors think I don't have a life.
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Flattening, not shifting? Yep, check your JPG compression parameters.
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Thanks Bob, I'll be tackling this in the next few days.
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FloppyDog wrote:
Excellent feedback! Thank you!

I seem to be having some issues with color shifting from PS to web, probably a monitor calibration issue being as I've never calibrated it. :ohmy: Anyone have any suggestions?

Here's a link to the rest of this wedding shoot;

http://spiritsgate.smugmug.com/gallery/ 6033383_sixyv#377708314_zezmi



Are you posting sRGB or Adobe RGB, sRGB is suited to the internet and Adobe for printing and both view differently on screen.
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Steve hope you don't mind lightened up your image some.
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Much better Pat! Thank you!

As soon as I get a chance, maybe I should create some actions in PS for both web and print output. (?)
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