simonabunaphotography

<p>Mine:</p>

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<p>5 minutes work :D</p>

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<p>I love the "First" picture!! Is simple , not so aglomerate, the door is there but not so strong in the image and I like a lot the shadow of the lamp. My opinion is to put up the saturation on the blue lamp.</p><div></div>

<p>Canon 40D, Sigma 50-150mm, available light, 1/400, 2.8 </p><div></div>

<p>Mendel, I have a problem with horizontal horizon too , but I learn how to crop and compose to can re-crop a litle bit on post processing :D.</p>

<p>3-4 weeks before the big day I have a meeting with B&G and I give them a list of formals pictures ( very general one) and I ask them to complete it with the name of the persons and to add more pictures if they want ( for example B&G with X family)<br>

Few days before the wedding I ask(email) for the schedule of the day based on our last discussion when I told them how much time we will need for pictures( formals , portraits, etc.)<br>

I ask for a person from the family to help me to put together the people and to call them by their name it is easy this way and people react fast :D .<br>

How much I want to know about the day? Everything !!!!! There are a lot of surprises and new situations and delay, at least I want to know from where I start, I like to be organized how much it can be.</p>

 

<p>In my birth country a long line of cars (but decorated with a lot of flowers and colored papers :D ) for weddings is very usual, I don't know if the picture is taken somewhere in Eastern Europe :D. <br />I like the picture but I can't see if is a Bride or just a women with a men in suit, I wished to see some of the accesories of a Bride, veil, small part of the dress, flowers to place the picture in a certain day.</p>

<p>you have the raw files? if yes, lower the contrast a litle bit, work with the shadows, light and highlight, you not have to much details on shadows , there is just black.<br>

put here a file how is come out from your camera, just transform in jpeg and resize ( one with the couple )</p>

<p>Thank you WW, I was thinking about cloning around the dress and probably this I will do :D , I have more than two weeks to finish the pictures.<br />Actualy I made it BW too to see how it look but not good.</p>

<p> Thank you all for the comments and critiques !!!!!</p>

<p>Hmmmm, I'm the first one :D?<br />I'm sure it will not be mine the one , at least because I had the last week one (is the same wedding), but here is my picture:</p><div></div>

<p>I do my perfect job and the Bride and Groom have to love my work because my work is technically perfect, I had the perfect exposure, I applied the rule of third, I choose my perfect spot, I applied all the rules I learned about photography.<br>

This is not me and I don't want to make my photography in this way. I don't want to say I don't care about perfect focus, good exposure, good composition are not in my mind and the rules are above my head all the time, but I prefer to cut them down for an emotional picture, a picture that after years will make my client to be again "The Bride" for few seconds. <br>

David, maybe the young photographer don't know how to use ( or choose to not use them in the right way) the lights in the perfect conditions, I consider studio conditions the perfect ones because there we create the light how we want, but for weddings the conditions are far from perfect and we try to create them for our pictures.<br>

I ask again, if we can not make the conditions to be perfect we refuse to take a picture the Bride will love?</p>

<p>This means is about pleasing the bride?</p>

<p> Think like this: my brain have a storm in it at every wedding(don't forgot I don't have so long time in this bussines), I have to calm down the storm and choose the right lightings from the clouds war to be used for my images :D !!!</p>

<p>Ah, I'm not mad :D , I'm really proud and I love all the comments, I learned a lot and I hope to all to learn from this discusions. Sorry , sorry if sound like I was mad!!!<br>

I just think all the posing sugestions are very good and I just explained I don't had time for posing for this picture( maybe I have to pay more atention and to use one second or two just for a small directing, is something that I learn today). But all what I learned from your comments have a very big value!!!<br>

Far from me to be mad or upset!!!!</p>

<p>OK, I agree, directing the people in a certain way change the picture a lot , in a good way of course. But, what is happened if you don't have time to do this , if your time is less then one minute , just few seconds, somebody else to arranged the dress and you have really few seconds to snap 4 pictures!<br>

I had this spot of vibrant green grass and around just trees and the lake, to wait for the portrait time, the time of directing and posing and looking for perfect background means to not have the same light and to not take the same picture, I wanted this dress to be exactly how is see-thru effect, I don't think is unflattering because you can't see exactly the shape of the body, you don't see her legs, you don't see the underwear.<br>

Having this conditions you just refuse to take a shoot you see in your brain? All the photographers wait for the portrait time just to can direct the people?</p>

<p>The most important thing, the Bride just told me she don't like this picture, she LOVE IT !!!!! This are her words on facebook :D , believe me, this is enough for me :D !!!!!</p>

 

<p>few weeks ago I was wainting for a girl to take some senior pictures. At the same place( wonderful place, old house, big park, museum) was a wedding and I saw the photographer coming. He had one old black t-shirt, one vest with a lot of pockets( this I liked it) like the one for fishing and short tan pants. He looked like was going fishing. Sorry but I don't think was apropiate dressed.</p>

<p>Thank you David, but put them in the shadow sound too normal for me :D , I wanted some different then usual, I wanted exactly what Nadine saws about the light coming thru the dress (this was the reason to not use any fill light)<br>

I have pictures of them in the beautiful garden near the lake, in the shade from the trees and sorrounded with flowers, but this are different pictures. The lake, how it is, with the green vegetation on it for me was a simbol of peace and undisturbed place. </p>

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 Nadine, I croped this picture vertical and you are right and I'm mad I don't saw it at the time.<br>

 Here is the one vertical: </p><div></div>

<p>I have a vertical one, with some leafs above them, but is about her veil and I croped at their knees, . I will upload it in half an hour, but I consider it to be something different :D.</p>

<p>OK, just transformed in jpeg and resize it:</p><div></div>

<p>Aaaa, and is about just this violet washed circle, it not bothers me to much to clone it , but I wanted the trees to be kind of washed out :D. Sorry David</p>

<p>Thank Nadine for the chance to have my picture on critique and thank you all for your words.<br>

I used blur on a different layer with 20% opacity because I want this effect on the trees and lake and my subjects to pop-out more. To move my station point was impossible, some trees on the left and a fence on the righ. You are rght about the mulch I wish now to have them a least few inches on the right. I don't wanted to use any fill light on this case. <br>

David, my monitor is calibrated, at least what I see on the screen I will have from White House Printing and is not to dark not to bright on mine.</p>

<p>Here is mine from last week, Canon 40D, Sigma 18-50mm f2.8, I really don't remember my settings and I'm lazy to check them, I just remember the light was fantastic and I was afraid to not loose it because of the long receiving line.</p><div></div>

<p>Here is mine, I know, look like old fashion but I love it . It is first time when I took a picture like this one.</p>

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<p>For the wedding I will take the pictures this Saturday the Bride asked me if I can clean her teeth , she was worried because she wanted to go to a dentist to change one yellow tooth and was to expensive to do it is so short time. I saw her teeth at the first meeting and I knew I will clean them in the pictures without her to ask me to do it.<br />My opinion for your case, I will choose some (3-4)pictures, the ones I believe the Bride will love and I will clean them perfect without moneyand in all other ones I will just clean the very big spots. If some of the friends of the family will see all the pictures without retouching I will not be proud for my work. If she will ask you for some more pictures explain her the time consuming and the work and set a price.</p>

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