Here is one of several I just posted for this discussion. This is the first photo in the series, so if you'd like to see the others, you can click on the photo and then see the rest of the. If you'd like to see even more, you can check out my website. Click on "weddings" at the top.
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This wedding party arrived while I was photographing a waterfall in the gardens. I found the hardest challenge was getting exposure correct - allowing for the huge amount of white in the image (dress), without darkening the skin tones or blowing out the details in the dress (even though I was shooting in the shade).
@ltodd pretty - did you meter this shot to get it right or how did you compensate for those issues?
@wildernesswillie beautiful! @peggysirk beautiful photo and wow that cake is amazing @grammyn You achieved your goal I thought it was a retro shot - looks great @dejongdd Loved, loved looking at your website - beautiful ideas @hueymilunz You captured a very emotional moment wow @archaeofrog wow what a creative idea @grammyn simply beautiful!
@myhrhelper I think I spot metered for the face & then had to burn the parts of the dress a little ( I used RAW files). A fill flash & spot metering on the dress might have been all it needed though. What I found funny was the 'pro' photographer taking quite formal looking images & stopped shooting when the couple relaxed like this. I would set the camera for continuous shooting. There is a NIK Colour efex white neutraliser filter that I would have used in post for colour correction if I had had it! Maybe practice metering large white dresses with a friend wearing a white sheet in similar lighting situations, or shoot RAW ( for WB issues too). Maybe also hunt up some ebooks on wedding photography??
http://ddjimagesphotography.wix.com/ddjimages
From my niece's wedding reception
@wildernesswillie beautiful!
@peggysirk beautiful photo and wow that cake is amazing
@grammyn You achieved your goal I thought it was a retro shot - looks great
@dejongdd Loved, loved looking at your website - beautiful ideas
@hueymilunz You captured a very emotional moment wow
@archaeofrog wow what a creative idea
@grammyn simply beautiful!
I also work in church during wedding seremonies:
This was from our wedding, shot with an iPad mini:
This is the top tier of our wedding cake that we saved for our first anniversary:
http://www.amyandstevenswedding.co.uk/