Here are a few wedding images from thie weekend for your review and comment. IR Wedding Environmental Portrait It's been a while since I've been able to do any IR work at a wedding. So this is alittle basic. I'd like to do more with IR portraits (closer up.) The lowdown: D100 & 12-24 AFS DX @15mm ISO 800, 1-sec manual exposure @ f/8 Infrared light - Tiffen 87 IR filter (A tripod was deffinitely used - but I'm still workin' on hand holding those 1-sec. exposures!) Wind & The Veil With such a beautiful bride, every time she smiled it was a fabulous moment. When the wind took her veil I grabbed the end to my right, brought it toward me and held it under my lens. The lowdown: D2x & 28-70 AFS @ 28mm ISO 400, 1/640 sec. Aperture Priority @ f/5.6 SB800 fill flash -0.7EV The Boys Will Play The guys at every wedding love to horse around - these fellas were no exception. The lowdown: D2x & 28-70 AFS @ 28mm ISO 400, 1/500 sec. Aperture Priority @ f/5.6 Natural light On the Altar with Flowers A traditional, yet powerful pose. The lighting in the church was particularly colorful. The lowdown: D2x & 28-70 AFS @ 28mm ISO 400, 1/60 sec. manual exposure @ f/4.5 Remote SB800 from left, natural light from right, fill flash bounced up and diffused at 45 degrees. On the Altar with Flowers (mixed B&W/color) The same shot as above, but with portions mixed in B&W and color. This edit was requested by the bride because she saw a similar shot in my portfolio. Which do you prefer?
Thanks guys. Mike - I too prefer the full-color because of the mood it creates. I worked hard on balancing the flashes and other light +WB, all that gets lost in the B&W.
Joe, Beautiful wedding shots. Spot on. Beautiful Bride also. I like both the color and b/W /w color. The one thing lost in the b/w w/color is the vibrance of the bride. Color and lighgting in the color image is terific. Veil image is wonderful. Very impressive IR as well, I like that. IR always fasinates me. Great job Joe.
LOL - Thanks Harris. I would have gladly come to FL for a great wedding such as yours. I'm doing three destination weddings this year... Jamaica, Bahamas, & British West Indies... can't wait! Thanks everyone.
Hey Joe, You are one hell of a good photographer. I meant to comment on your earlier thread but I love the composition of some your shots. Question. What gives you your ideas for composition and framing?
Hello Joe, Wonderful wedding pictures. I hope to develop my skills one day to photograph weddings and special occasions.
Thanks guys - I appreciate you taking the time to comment. Chad - as for inspiration. I look at other photographers and artists like illustrators and painters. My college degree is in illustration, and I did allot of fantasy, sci-fi, and children's work before becoming a full-fledged photographer. I always had a knack for interesting comps and I credit that to my days of drawing layouts and my instructors who forced me to think outside the box. To keep myself fresh, I do two things. I look at shots that my peers are doing and try to recreate them. Once they are recreated, I try and change them up, to give them a twist. The other thing I do is I try and come up with a new comp for each wedding. That way every assignment I do moves me forward, but builds on the previous. For inspiration now, I look at photographers like Yervant, David A. Williams, Joe Buissink, Denis Reggie, & the late Ingo Schukraft among others. If anyone gets a chance to attend a seminar with David A. Williams, do it! He is big on the subject of inspiration and gets allot of his from Baroque artwork. Looking at painters is a great way to help you see natural light. Everything they put on the canvas is intentional, so it must be important.
