'An Emotional Mother of the Bride'

The eighth in my series on 'A South Indian Wedding'. 'An Emotional

Mother'. In the picture you see the brides mother, this was shot

during the 'Oonjal' and is one of my favourite shots of the wedding,

It is a very emotional for a mother to get her daughter married,

Someone you have bought up for 20 odd years, leaves you and your

family to go set a family. Though she feels that she would miss her

daughter, she is happy for her, and that tear in her eye expresses so

much. Look forward to the next in the series of 'A South Indan

Wedding' A small request - i would like the members to see all the

photographs in this series in totality as this is more of a series

and a story rather than individual photographs :)

I already did have a look.

i dont understand that someone else, could you tell me what you saw earlier?

the other woman's head ruins it.

thanks for your comments william, yes i understand but i am not that good with PS so was wondering if i try something and screw up the picture.

I guess Someone Else already had a look at the earlier photos is what he meant.

 

Pradeep, I don't think the other person's image being in the photo ruins it, keeping in mind the setting and context and her emotional state, you couldn't exactly ask her to move just for your photo.

 

But here are a couple of Suggested crops.

Or you can go for a much closer crop. After all I guess the emphasis is her expression and emotion. On the other hand. I like the full face and upper body with the sari. Anyway...just some ideas...

I think i will try to blur the background with the other lady, let me try my hand at it.

Actually that might be a better idea. Besides, the second lady doesn't kill this.

I mean that I did see your other photo's of the wedding before. So I already followed it.

Hi Pradeep, Your wedding series is just like

photojournalism so in this picture to me that

head is acceptable to me. The picture itself told a story where you took this. Thanks for sharing...

 

What happened? I did not see you

on my MSN Messenger anymore?... I must have

done something when I updated it.

Good shot , just that the other lady should have been unfocussed and may be, space permiting, you could have taken this picture from an angle. In the cropped version the part of the hand goes out which to me is not looking good. And probably the title should have been " Anxious mother". The ifs and buts will always remain but over all nice picture.

I think your original crop is better than the suggested posts. The new ones are too tight.

 

It doesn't look like you were using a long lens, so maybe just moving a few feet to the left would have solved the issue. I accept that, by definition, there will be other people at a wedding, but they should be part of the photo.

 

I wouldn't blur the head - it will make it worse. Learn how to use the pen tool and cut the subject out. Remember, the best photoshop work is invisible (except graphic arts work of course!). In my opinion, photos that look "photoshopped" are nearly always worse than the original.

 

Also, what did the original, non-sepia picture look like? Was it colour? It strikes me that the beautiful colours of an Indian wedding (and the Indian landscape), demand not to be shot in mono? What do you think?

I would like to thank all of you to have taken time out to comment on the photo(s). To start with, i agree with the more candid shots as a possibiltiy, there are 2 things which are a problem here, one i use a canon G2 which has a shutter lag, and it has just a 3x optical zoom. If and when i get a SLR then i think i can be better, but on second thoughts, i will try to make the best of what i have now :) About it being in monochrome, well that was something even i was contemplating on before i made the decision to go the classic sepia toning. at the end of the series maybe i could post the color versions of all the photographs :)

Hello.

 

Thanks for your comment and sorry for my english.

 

I saw other pics on your "wedding" folder. But I think I must explain my rating in this picture.

 

I'm not a pro. Just an amateur. So don't take my opinions too serious.

 

I agree with Mr. William White. The "half face" on the left of this pic is (sorry for the word) the worst thing.

 

I think there is no a "cropping" solution to change it. may be with PS you can "clone" (or whatever) the trees over that head.

 

Also the head of the woman is IMO too centered in the pic.

 

May be taking the photo two steps to the left could improve this shot. Yes, I know this is not possible now, may be too late!. Don't worry... next time I'm sure you'll do it better.

 

Best regards