Wedding

[habed]

Hola a todos..... It's being a long time since I posted here because I've been really busy shooting.

Here's a photo from last saturday's wedding.

I really like it but I think It could be better, maybe the perspective.

What do you think of the light? Too dark? Too bright?

Any critique will be welcome

Gracias

Canon T1i
1/80
f/8
19mm
ISO 200
No flash

[ajax_andy]

Hi,

I like the shot, but I feel she is a little under exposed.

I understand this was probably intentional to make the dress stand out more, but I can't help thinking she's just a little too under exposed.

I would use the "dodge" tool in photoshop if I was you to just try and lighten her skin tones slightly in order to make her stand out a little from the backdrop.

Good creative shot tho!

[Niresangwa]

too underexposed, and your lines are wonky.

The door needs to be straightened up, and also, aside from cropping too close to her dress at the bottom, there's that sliver of white wall on the right of the frame to either crop out, or to correct with some cloning or fill.

I appreciate what you were going for, but how did you light this? I'm assuming natural lighting. Was the un-PP'd file this dark, or a product of your conversion?

With some judicious layering, you could get some life into this, but it's going to take bringing up the bride by a stop or so and the environment is tricky because of the fall off.

Its going to need some contrast added too, as it feels murky. Darker images are fine, but when they look this muddy, its a turn off for me. Nice textures of the concrete wall and rich door, mostly lost in the conversion.

Good concept but one which would have been a little better with stronger composition (landscape over portrait for sure imho), and a more direct placement of the model. The lighting, combined with the composition, is where it falls down for me.

[habed]

Originally Posted by Niresangwa

too underexposed, and your lines are wonky.

The door needs to be straightened up, and also, aside from cropping too close to her dress at the bottom, there's that sliver of white wall on the right of the frame to either crop out, or to correct with some cloning or fill.

I appreciate what you were going for, but how did you light this? I'm assuming natural lighting. Was the un-PP'd file this dark, or a product of your conversion?

With some judicious layering, you could get some life into this, but it's going to take bringing up the bride by a stop or so and the environment is tricky because of the fall off.

Its going to need some contrast added too, as it feels murky. Darker images are fine, but when they look this muddy, its a turn off for me. Nice textures of the concrete wall and rich door, mostly lost in the conversion.

Good concept but one which would have been a little better with stronger composition (landscape over portrait for sure imho), and a more direct placement of the model. The lighting, combined with the composition, is where it falls down for me.

The space was very small. I had my back against a wall. I wanted it to be landscape but there was a wall a couple of inches behind her (The white wall you mentioned which is gone now) and in front there was a HUGE dinner table. 5 people tried to move it but we couldn't.

The light comes from a window.

I gave it a little more exposure and contrast, let me know if it looks better

Thank you

[kevingeary]

Actually, I would say that this concept is perfect, but is missing a key element. A snooted speedlight off to the left hitting her face would have made this fantastic, I believe. And a tad bit more ambient -- you lost the top part of the frame.

[Niresangwa]

Originally Posted by habed

The space was very small. I had my back against a wall. I wanted it to be landscape but there was a wall a couple of inches behind her (The white wall you mentioned which is gone now) and in front there was a HUGE dinner table. 5 people tried to move it but we couldn't.

The light comes from a window.

I gave it a little more exposure and contrast, let me know if it looks better

Thank you

This looks better imo, easier to look at. The bump in contrast led to a hot area on her chest, but its a good trade off (maybe in the h-res version you retained more details than the small version shows).

It's a niggling detail, but I feel like it would benefit from a slight clockwise rotation... again, if you've laid a grid over it and the door jamb is perfectly vertical, then never mind...just looks a little too much the other way this time!

I don't mind the natural fall off of the top of the frame, it suits the shot now the rest is brightened up.

As Kevin alluded to, external lighting could have added more to the shot, but hey, you could say that about almost any image made with available light. Within the constraints of the room you had. I guess in the same position, and maybe you did, I would have used those textures and gotten some closer shots... chest/head on right of the frame in a landscape, again, just to make more of the textures.. in wide shots like this you lose that by default.

I think the only other step I would try would be some split toning using a colour balance layer, (shadows bump blue/cyan, highlights bump red/yellow etc), but beware that you'll have to compensate with a slightly decreased contrast before hand... I've found that with relatively dark flat B&W's it breathes new life into them..

[habed]

I have a closer take with more on the textures. As soon as I upload them I'll post the link

Thank your for your input to all.

I´ll work on the layer thing. I use PSE and still learning how to do such things.

Gracias!!