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Very nice execution of “the car shot” you have held the exposure together well and the scene is very nicely balanced. We are lead to the B&G effectively and the pose seems quite relaxed. I think the camera viewpoint is just a fraction too low, but this is a minor issue: – out of curiosity how tall are you - - - or was the road slightly inclined?

One main area to improve is your framing:  you were maxed out at 17mm, but a very small step back would get the whole of the front of the car in shot – and also you would not clip the Groom’s foot.

Alternatively if you had a problem moving back or people milling around the front of the car you need to go tighter and choose  to cut the car at an “appropriate” position.

You do the same thing in another image – where the B&G are walking towards you – you clip both their feet.

WW

Well William has said almost all that I had intended to mention, so I will just second his comments and add one more suggestion.  In event photography, such as weddings, parties, etc. it might be a good idea to try to include more space all around your subject and crop later at the computer.  When you get up close and tightly crop,  the events are often happening too quickly for you to compose exactly as you would wish.  Today's digital cameras have far more than enough pixels - cropping later will not bring the total too low.

When I did wedding photography I used a square medium format film camera and had the ground glass marked with both horizontal and vertical crop lines.  I took each picture so that it could be cropped two ways, the decision coming later when layout of the wedding album was under consideration.  When digital imaging showed it was not going to produce a square format, I retired from wedding photography.  (it was time anyway)  There are so many pixels available in the newest digital cameras, it might be possible to mask off the view finder so as to show a square and not bother to rotate the camera for vertical vs horizontal format - one could just crop later.

Regards,

Jerry

Thanks to both William and Jerry for your prompt and useful feedback.

William I am 5'10" but do seem to have a bad habit of wanting to crouch when taking full lenght shots, l can't remeber what i did on this specific shot. You both rightly pick up on my frame composition, I have now discovered that people tend to like 10x8 prints for albums and when you have already filled the frame on a APS-C this leads to big problems in the developing stages. A few of my shots from this wedding left cropping very awkward when the party asked for all 10x8 prints. I have learned to stop filling the frame and as Jerry says, there are plenty of pixels to half fill a frame and still get good large prints, i like the idea of taping the viewfinder.

Thanks again to you both