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Good lighting in a tricky situation.

My guess is that the couple just loves this. It's such a great Micki take on a classic scene. Great compositional balance, just the right blending of silhouette and depth because of subtle light allowed in the shadowed areas, especially on the pier, the foreground, and I love that I can make out the stepped pattern in the lower left corner. Her gown is amazing and his handsome smile tells a sweet story. Heck, I'd marry him. And I can now, you know, at least in California. (Except he might resist!)

 

Question about the bright outlining along the pier's dark lines. In this case, because it's such a fanciful scene to begin with and has such a story book and idyllic feel to it, those outlines don't bother me, they actually kind of add a sweet touch, but I'm wondering if they were intentional or not. That does often happen when making lighting, levels, and color adjustments and it's just worth noting their presence.

 

Love it!

This is beautiful Micki. I'm sure this couple is thrilled with it. It is original, not the standard wedding picture. Wonderful work, you should be proud. All the best.

I kind of think you dropped the couple into this background in photoshop. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but the lighting leads me in that direction.

I like the darkness of the pier as a base for the white dress. This image has a simplicty that I like.

Well Susan I think John gave it up ~ but honestly the lighting in the place we were at was AWFUL and i spent forever just getting the dress white regardless :)

 

Fred, You kind of caught it with the lines and probably after studying it would have figured it out.

 

I have been doing this for a while and plan on doing this for a charity thing coming up and am using several of these sunsets as the backdrop for the "picture choices".

 

I think this one will work wonderfully. Anyway, Since they were not able to make it to the sunset or the beach I did this for them. I also did a beach one but this one was prettier. I did this one with the face showing for his mom (who is a friend of ours).

 

I just love these types of pictures anyway.

 

Thank you for thinking it was done so well as to almost fool you guys. :)

 

It made my day. Truth is I have been trying to get this almost perfect and hopefully I am getting it down to where it is quick and easy and I can doing it easy peasy.

 

Jan, You are so so so sweet. :)~ micki

 

 

It is a great piece, and I would love it if it were my wedding shot as well. I do agree with John, and maybe I'm being picky.. I would burn in a bit on her dress to give more of a differential, giving it a more natural look. Sorry... I did a real quick edit... but... I'm thinking something like this.

I actually made it whiter because Anthony told me too :)

 

lol

 

Isn't that funny :)

 

You guys need to get together :)

 

he he

 

:)

 

I like what you did and I should probably go and do that a tiny bit before I hand over the disk. I still have a few more adjustments on the big stuff.

 

now about YOUR wedding pics

 

we need to get together and just PLAY one whole weekend on just YOUR STUFF! :)

 

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