Wedding Photos 20th September

martinturner · 22 Sep 2008 at 15:45

Wonderful series and interesting too. Can I ask what sort of flash equipment you used (if at all?)

alexisonfire · 22 Sep 2008 at 16:29

martinturner said:
Wonderful series and interesting too. Can I ask what sort of flash equipment you used (if at all?)

Hey, most of the photos are all natural light, the ones at night i used a single SB600 mounted. Mixture of bounced and direct flash, diffused with a stofen.

alexisonfire · 24 Sep 2008 at 00:49

domthecondom said:
i think i need to get myself a nifty 50 by the looks of these shots :O

how much did yours set you back?

£65.99

Hodders · 25 Sep 2008 at 14:54

unknowndomain said:
Great pictures, but theres a theme throughout of putting people in the middle of the frame leaving massive amounts of empty space above them and cutting there bodies off when you could easily align their face in the top third of the frame and have more of the person in shot.

Just my opinion what do others think?

I find myself doing this a lot - I have the centre AF point turned on and tend to focus - half press - recompose and shot. The problem is that I often don't adjust enough.

DragonWoLf · 25 Sep 2008 at 15:32

gorgeous pics mate, love the shots, wish i could do that

mrk · 25 Sep 2008 at 18:17

That's it, the Nifty is going to be mine again, I miss the crispness, the contrast and the way it forces you get be more creative being fixed FL

Very very nice imagery, Nikon has always had the edge on skintones and the D80 has easily shown that in your images (I assume no PP was done to add contrast etc?).

Now to decide if I want a 50mm 1.4 USM for the noise freeness or the 1.8 mkII again!

Twentymac · 25 Sep 2008 at 18:49

Whats the name of that 50mm ?

Raymond Lin · 25 Sep 2008 at 19:53

Twentymac said:
Whats the name of that 50mm ?

Nikon 50mm 1.8

Twentymac · 25 Sep 2008 at 20:30

Cheers !
Think i'll have to invest in one for my D60.

D.P. · 26 Sep 2008 at 08:18

unknowndomain said:
Great pictures, but theres a theme throughout of putting people in the middle of the frame leaving massive amounts of empty space above them and cutting there bodies off when you could easily align their face in the top third of the frame and have more of the person in shot.

Just my opinion what do others think?

I strongly agree. Some of the photos are very nice but too many of them have a large empty space above the heads and the feet and legs cut off.

E.g No 1. just looks wrong, a pretty women to the left which is obviously part of the scene looking towards the man in the center- but shes cropped off. Instead the mans head takes center frame. Makes me want to get a better picture of the women but shes all cropped.

Or the 3rd picture. A Big area of over-exposed saturated sky that distracts from the portraiture, but at the bottom we don't even have the girls elbow complete let alone including her hips to show her curves which would be much more elegant and balanced photo. There are several other like this where some bland nondescript top part of the photo is taking up space while the viewer is missing some details.

Pics 4 and 11 unfortunately didn't work because there are items blocking the subject.Can't be helped but I would hesitate in including them in an wedding album. Similarly in photo 5, but I think this is a DoF problem. The glass in the foreground is very soft (the man is very nice and sharp). This soft glass distracts from the image, glass usually needs to be crisp and crystal sharp to work well in photos I find.

Some of the photos are really great. Number 2 especially. In general the exposures seem very good, the post processing nicely done, the images sharp and contrasty. Good skin tones throughout.