Beach Wedding

[tybo78]

Nikon D5000
F/2
1/32000
50mm 1.8 manual focus

I got the focus on the subjects wrong so i did some sharpening in gimp and smoothing on the faces as well. Adjusted levels a bit and obviously desaturated to B&W. I desaturated first then did the other PP. My monitor is not calibrated so its hard to tell if the levels are right. I know its still a bit blurry but the photo will be a 5x7. I am very amateur so im not trying to pass this off as good and was not payed or even asked to shoot at this wedding. I did it for myself and for them as well. They are good friends of mine.

Thanks for looking! Can't wait to get some feedback!

Also, I have another from that day. A color group shot that I will post here tomorrow.

[medicnai]

It honestly looked focused out on the left. My eye was initially taken to the bench out that way. In my honest opinion, I'm not sure if I like the black and white conversion, I never would have been able to tell that this was taken at a wedding because they seem a little dark to me.

I'd love to see the color version of this...

[MrJones]

in my opinion the photo is just too blurred. it's not usable as a photo, not even at 5x7.
but I say, if it's blurred, why not use it and go all the way?
I don't know if it works for you but that's just an idea I pulled out in two minutes. blurred the photo, used a mask to uncover the flowers and this is the result:

[edbayani]

you've got focus problems and low contrast. in pp, separate the couple and adjust contrast of bg. add a new layer between coupe and original mage and apply a white to transparent gradient, and adjust the opacity to produce a slight haze. adjust the contrast of the couple and duplicate layer. apply highpass and set to overlay to improve a bit the sharpness. use dodge and burn to bring out folds in the black clothes and on the flowers. apply the sharpen tool set at 30% opacity, and adjust size to cover the eyes and click before it starts to pixelize. flatten.
this wont give you a sharp image but will look a bit better

[candleman]

f/2 .....why?

[sabrina860]

Originally Posted by candleman

f/2 .....why?

what should of she used? probably like 5.6?

[MrJones]

Originally Posted by candleman

f/2 .....why?

Originally Posted by sabrina860

what should of she used? probably like 5.6?

I agree with candleman, you're using a shutter speed of 1/3200!
you could have easily gone for f/5.6 or more to get the sharp and focused even if you focused on another object by mistake.

sabrina, 5.6 would be more than enough considering the distance between the camera and the main object.

[mukerjichinmoy]

Originally Posted by edbayani

you've got focus problems and low contrast. in pp, separate the couple and adjust contrast of bg. ... this wont give you a sharp image but will look a bit better

@edbayani, I just edited your message to save space.
I'm new to photography, DPS and have no clue about PS. So please bear with me. As a viewer, I thought your photograph told me that someone put in a lot of effort to fix the photo, but in the end it felt artificial to me - as if the couple had been placed on the background. They were not blending into the BG. I'm also pretty sure I cannot do as well as you to fix it the way you did. My opinion !

Originally Posted by MrJones

in my opinion the photo is just too blurred. it's not usable as a photo, not even at 5x7. but I say, if it's blurred, why not use it ... ... this is the result:

@Mr. Jones - I tried another method - How does this look ?

[candleman]

Originally Posted by sabrina860

what should of she used? probably like 5.6?

i shoot at f/4 and both subjects are in focus, and the background is soft..

f/2 only causes trouble.. there is no background to throw OOF, so whats the point?
narrow DOF is used to seperate the subject from the background, like in a park.
In this case there is nothing behind the to seperate them from, so there's no point loosing images by trying to be fancy.


what was the ISO set to?


appart from the technical bits.
1. the feet are amputated from the bottom of the frame. a 3/4 crop would fix that. (like Mr Jones)
or, next time, include the feet properly

2. what are you trying to say with this image?
she's looking one way, he's looking another.
their hands are all covered up so they look very awkward standing there as they look very "straight up and down"

the image lacks interest, there needs some object of interest which i'm not finding.

[pjflan7]

Originally Posted by candleman

i shoot at f/4 and both subjects are in focus, and the background is soft..

f/2 only causes trouble.. there is no background to throw OOF, so whats the point?
narrow DOF is used to seperate the subject from the background, like in a park.
In this case there is nothing behind the to seperate them from, so there's no point loosing images by trying to be fancy.


what was the ISO set to?


appart from the technical bits.
1. the feet are amputated from the bottom of the frame. a 3/4 crop would fix that. (like Mr Jones)
or, next time, include the feet properly

2. what are you trying to say with this image?
she's looking one way, he's looking another.
their hands are all covered up so they look very awkward standing there as they look very "straight up and down"

the image lacks interest, there needs some object of interest which i'm not finding.

I was thinking the same thing.......when I first saw the settings, I figured there would be trouble. I might have even gone to f8. I presume no tripod was used here......