weddings their first look at her

as her Grandpa takes her down to the beach they get the first glimpses

of her in her wedding dress. Their first look at her...

This picture is very nice, so mild colors and tones, so nicely composed...just needs a tiny little black stroke and white frames! It would be perfect like that!

 

PDE

Stunning. This is processed so interestingly. One of your finest, I believe.

The wedding I did was just like this almost every picture on the beach.

 

I am kind of surprised not many others saw it like you did but maybe it is because I put my watermark on it.

 

I have had friends tell me the same thing wen sending it to them for color critique.

 

I can also tell you that she was just as stunning in real life and that I visualized this just like this during practice.

 

Thank you for your support!

 

:) ~ micki

Striking and lovely! Warm regards...

Outstanding! :~)

 

This is a classic Micki. Any photographer would be proud to have made it...and i'm sure the Bride and Family will treasure it, for many, many, years.

 

Well done. Great work.

I was jumping up and down trying to hold down my thrill for the bride here. :)

 

Thank you both for all your support over the last year. :)

 

 

Very creative - wonderful image!

I think it's a lovely image and a very nice idea. I especially like seeing the wedding guests waiting by the sea in the distance. It's got an onlooker's perspective which is always interesting and tempting. Very effective use of depth of field.

 

For my tastes, it's quite sharp and I find that gives it a severe quality that, for me, works against the beauty and delicacy of the scene. Her hair, especially, and the folds in her skin, have a rather stiff texture. The flowers, too. Her right arm for example, on the right side has a red edge that, to me, is a processing issue, possibly just a conversion issue and maybe it's not there in your print and higher-quality version.

Trying to get it the right perfect sharpness was just ridiculous for working on the picture in PS (for just posting here on PN).

 

Sorry it didn't do it for you Fred on this picture.

 

Here is what you are really looking for in this picture. It is the way it is really supposed to look. I just couldn't reproduce it by reducing it properly here on PN (to much time consuming). Something that I hate I hate about their compression.

mvisionphotography wedding picture

This is so beautiful and delicate! You show the inevitable feelings of both the bride&father and the waiting guests. The minor hesitation and the waiting anxiety of her, the way how the father takes the handle as he is about to give her daughters hand to the groom... Beautifully built and genuine capture. As others have wrote, the tones add to the overall effect. I am kind of balancing with my opinion towards framing this one... This would get even more "strength" from narrow white and a little bit wider black frame. On the other hand, it is totally another question, does such delicate image need to be "captived", as this seems to open up towards the wedding ceremony place and towards the sky. Well, either way, I like this one a lot!

 

With warm greetings,

Alpo

 

P.S.

Congratulations for the new camera! Lucky you! ;-)

Yes, this captured a moment that was like a that "moment in time"

 

I thought about putting a border around it than I remembered I promised myself that I wouldn't take time (or any extra time) doing things like that anymore BUT this picture really needed something more too. It really has that need for separation here but then again it does look cool fading too.,

 

Thank you SOOOO much for all your support. Like you, I have been so busy I haven't had much time for anything lately but family and my pictures, well you have had work.

 

The camera has not gotten the best of me yet. :)

 

Learning lots! ;)

 

 

Micki, I like your point of view here! It definitely has a different spin on most wedding photos! Nice work! Doug.

Thanks for the link. Can't imagine why you're having so much trouble when you post to PN. I like it much better on your web site. Has a much softer, more delicate feel. Any ideas why it's coming out so sharp on PN?

I uploaded it when all that change was going on. I guess I could rework it and upload it again but I just tried to adjust it and it comes out the same. I think when I put the watermark on it it make it adjusted.

 

I honestly think that I just don't reduce my pictures right half the time.

 

I have noticed that when I reduce them with CS3 now they turn out better.

 

It is sad but my webpage really shows things so much better and true to the colors and the essence of my pictures.

 

I'm going to be uploading the whole set of these later tonight and when I do I will add the link to it. :) ~ they are all just awesome the story as they go down.

That`s what tiredness does...

 

Thank you for the several comments and support!

 

Alpo

they all were!

 

:)

 

Radiant and wonderful!

 

Your welcome Alpo! :)

 

 

When I look at this lovely scene, what I feel is how warm it makes me feel. I get too much pleasure from it to wonder about the details, which might be my downfalling as a photographer. I love the concept implied. I might shed a tear. Regards, liz

I think the big picture is always the crucial thing, whether in photography or painting or most any art form. Details, however, can really affect how the overall picture will express itself and will feel. The big picture and the details don't have to compete with each other for attention and viability. They may be symbiotic and can coexist.

 

When I'm working on a photo, I can get such great pleasure from the finest little detail when I feel it has an emotional impact, subtle as that may be. Honing a technique, getting something to look a certain way so it feels even more strongly than it did at first, these are wonderful accomplishments and they come with real flourishes of pleasure.

what makes us emotional?

 

Liz, you say this actually catches you but you don't really get caught up in the details.

 

For me the details can make or break things BUT I do the same thing YET I will make a weird point here.

 

For me when Fred mentioned the sharpness I on one hand went, crud he noticed. Then on the other hand I went GREAT he noticed the details. Now I tried to prevent that detail but it is because he knows me and knows my way of working things and how I try not to over do things like this (and my details) that I try to let the emotion of a picture flow through without letting those details get in the way. For him that detail of the sharpness stopped him.

 

That was why I had him look at the better visual picture of it on my website.

 

Then I go back to what you really feel in this picture (minus the detail you really could care less about in the sharpness). You are having what I consider a moment of awe. That flutter in the chest of seeing that little groom down there and the bride like we all set up our Barbie dolls when we were little in the sand. It has nothing to do with sharpness in pictures or anything else. It erases the details of the pictures but brings us back into the memories of a fairytale wedding and if THAT is what I did for you and all other details that have been mentioned or not mentioned at all are gone from your view THANK YOU!! Because you see it. :) You feel it like I did when I was going through this jumping up and down going I did it. YEAH! I did a wedding on the beach in my vision. YEAH! ;) (sigh) OMG! ~ wow :) ~ who would have thought ~ thank you for seeing it and feeling it too.

 

:) ~ micki

This is going to sound crazy, but I nitpick details in my own work in an obsessive way. For others' work, I tend to focus on the whole scene and whether I get a "feeling" about how good it is - FOR ME. You two are experts in the field, I'm along for the ride, and I'm just thrilled to be here!

me too!

 

I am no expert

 

I still don't understand f-stop

 

ha ha ha ha ha

 

:)

 

HUGS!

 

~ micki

So I don't forget to say it, I like this picture a lot, and I join in in saying it certainly does what you felt and intended. That much I can see.

 

As I wrote to you on "searching," I don't understand the PN compression thing. And as for being "along for the ride," well, that's me, for sure. I mean, I wouldn't have picked up the processing Jeff Long saw, and I'm still not certain I get just what he's referring to. You, Micki, are being way overly humble when you say you don't understand f-stop. You so obviously know so much about what you're doing, not only in-camera, but so much so with post processing. Feeling as very green as I am in regard to PS techniques, I'm always trying to learn how things are done. The depth of that program is so daunting. I'm most curious to know what you did with this image, though I am sensitive to how little time you have, so I'll certainly understand if don't respond, or if you do with, "Go read a book," or "Take a course," or something like that. Actually, if there is a particular reference or two you could point me to, I'd appreciate it.

 

All that aside, I hope you know how very impressive and inspiring your work is to me.

I wish I could say that I did something fancy in PS but I really didn't.

 

So I guess i have to say I just pointed and shot. Then I guess I have to say I am pretty good at picture taking and then THAT makes me good at doing this. Well I don't feel good there yet either (but you told me I am) HA :)

 

So maybe I am getting there.

 

Here is the direct link (sorry no HTML too tired)

 

http://www.mvisionphotography.com/gallery/4923403_LgHia/3

 

You can see the whole story of how I got this exact shot. This one is the one that has all the flowers in there.

 

As you can see the white balance was perfect. All that I did was clone out a little girl that was in between their arms. Other than that I really didn't do anything. I just knew in my mind what I wanted and the angles and positioned myself as they went down and kept everything in line.

 

Thank you so much for the compliment! It means so much ~ micki

 

200 ISO

f/4.5

exp 1/80sec

 

It was at 7pm sunset time :)

 

Just so you know :)

 

30mm lens on a D300 (that I had no clue what I was doing) ha ha ha I was adjusting my own ISO and my own Fstop (I think I was on S no P but I didn't do Manual at this time) HA HA HA

 

 

Too many to choose from...I love your "new stuff". I love your unposed beautiful shots. All so relaxed and full of life. This one she will cherish I feel sure.

Good stuff girl!

~j