My Day

Comments/Critiques appreciated. Thank you for stopping by.

What a lovely portrait! I love the composition and especially the skin tones. The bright leaf bottom right is a bit distracting.

Thanks, Roger. It's a bride and her bouquet, and I've been looking at these wedding pics for two weeks. I suppose because it looks perfectly normal to me in full frame, it never occurred to me that it would look too busy/cluttered to anyone else. Just liked the expression, and it was a totally candid grab shot between numerous posed ones.

Lovely Doug! Thanks for your time and comment.

Wonderful moment and nice detail.Excellent timing. I would suggest trying to tone it down a bit.The lighting is a bit harsh.Very good overall.

This is beautiful. I did two weddings this summer but have not posted them yet. I love the idea of her face buried in the bouquet. Did you catch this moment or did you pose her?

 

Barbara

Just a quick shot between poses, Barbara. Inside a very small cluttered room, still under construction. Glad you enjoyed it. FYI, it's a very tight crop from a full length(gown and all shot}. Had I moved in,or even taken time to zoom, I would have missed it.

Doug, it is a really great moment you've captured but the cropping in from a more distant shot makes it a bit fuzzy and soft. In this case the soft feeling would certainly work, but it looks "enlarging" soft, not camera soft. I, too, would mute the colors a bit. They're a bit dense in such a "soft" or dreamy context. It doesn't feel too tight to me, just intimate. Very nice idea.

A lovely capture of a happy moment full of promises and hope.

The extreme crop/enlargement was still very sharp, albeit showing some very tight grain. I used Auto FX's Dreamy Photo to smooth/soften the effect, and additionally did reduce/mute the bouquet but didn't like it. I felt the bouquet was the main object and motivator for her expression, and left it prominent. I did clone in the white area of the leaf (bottom right) in another version.

She looks so happy,like a dream come true,you can really feel it in this shot.

Excellent composition. I like the dreamy softness because it causes me to imagine the wonderful future this bride anticipates, as she drinks in the scent of her wedding bouquet. Her lips are the color of the rose; the highlighting exentuates this harmony just as her golden hair matches the outside of the tall lily.

Thank you Dana and Donna. Glad you liked it. I thought it was a special moment and was lucky to get it.