Wedding shots for c&c

m_stan

ok I was asked recently to take some photos at a friends wedding. This was the first time I'd ever done something like this but I really enjoyed it. Don't think I'd do it for money - it was really special since I knew the couple.

Please provide some C&C and be easy on me - it's the first time I've done anything like this, and I'm bound to have done things wrong !

Also interested in your comments on the treatment applied to the shots - they are all processed.

Thanks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ragorder/sets/72157600848961108/

rymus

fixed the title for ya

bigeoino

A small set... I assume there are loads more!

Anyway I enjoyed them, and here are some comments

Really like the movement and the emotion of the one with the bride's father(?) - my favorite.

The black and white ones with a colour centre are probably a bit like marmite
and make sure you provide them with the options of either all black and white or all colour (they may have already asked for them like this) I liked the one outside the church but the one inside seemed odd...

Watch the shadow/ sun in the close up of the bride and groom - at first glance it looks like she has a spot/ growth on her nose...

hope you enjoyed it - I am "second camera" at a wedding next month so will hopefully give you the opportunity to respond!

m_stan

Thanks for the comments bigeoino. Love the marmite reference ! lol

The sun was a hard one to deal with - it was blasting down, and the church grounds were poor with this the only real nice location for outside shots, so I had to deal with the sun without really knowing how to !

I had a blast taking the shots and processing them too. The former is probably about skill, and the latter more about taste and clearly you don't like marmite

I have a tonne more and I will be giving them all the processed and originals of everything.

m_stan

rymus wrote:

fixed the title for ya

thank you mr rymus, kind mod-sir

bigeoino

I love marmite!
but am aware that wedding wise conservative could possibly be the best way forward...
(Difficult when you got to impress a lot of different audiences....)

Ideo

did you shoot raw? i think the one where the are standing at the entrance or the church is a bit underexposed? is it a tad too dark??

m_stan

Ideo wrote:

did you shoot raw? i think the one where the are standing at the entrance or the church is a bit underexposed? is it a tad too dark??

no. I had to make sure my mem card lasted for a full weekend, so I couldnt shoot in raw. I'll take a look at that shot though - can probably recover it

Eirebear

bigeoino wrote:

I love marmite!
but am aware that wedding wise conservative could possibly be the best way forward...
(Difficult when you got to impress a lot of different audiences....)

Youll generally find the best way is to offer colour/b&W options along with the "jazzed up" marmite version, keep all the bases covered so to speak

m_stan

Eirebear wrote:

Youll generally find the best way is to offer colour/b&W options along with the "jazzed up" marmite version, keep all the bases covered so to speak

Yes. The couple are friends of mine. I'm not charging them for the photos, and they'll be getting a DVD with all the processed and unprocecessed versions included.

Eirebear

m_stan wrote:

Yes. The couple are friends of mine. I'm not charging them for the photos, and they'll be getting a DVD with all the processed and unprocecessed versions included.

Thats the way to go, they way i generally work is to show the couple a DVD of the images in B&W and Colour Side by side, i then throw in a couple of processed shots (selective colour etc) for them to seeat the end of it all.
They then come back to me with the shots they want for their album and any ideas they may have in terms of post processing, where i then tell them if its possible/not possible and my opinion on if it would look any good.
It can be a fairly lengthy process....but it generally means the customer goes away happy.