A thread with photos and things.

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A little work in progress, water tested, seems to be a hit so far, more to come I guess!

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A few reasons I couldn't at this venue, not wide e ough and not a surrounding I could work with being surrounded by trees all round. Perhaps the next shoot though and I'm ordering the 14mm as soon as I can!
 
Composite so harder to work with colour on this but...
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A few more from the day:

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Lastly I'm quite fond of this chance capture during the speeches!

 
ElDude said:
I saw this on your FB page the other day, I was going to mention the sky, but didn't want to annoy the bride who no doubt watches your page :D

Just a thing that was bugging me about the sky. As it's not black, it really doesn't match with the trees for me, and looks like a composite. I know most won't care about that, but it bugged me :D It would look better if darker, if not black. Maybe graduating towards the darker as it lowers (which is obviously opposite to how it should look, but would fit better).
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Yeah as I mentioned in an earlier comment, this venue is in the perfect location for star shots (Middle of New Forest( but the surroundings don't work so well for it as you have large floodlights illuminating the trees directly around the site which you can see in the photo and as such it creates a look and feel that you and I would probably spot quickly whereas the average person wouldn't even notice.

One to keep an eye on at the next venue I guess :p
 
Because the trees are taller and it's just a big wall of trees blocking the stars. The galactic core was that side too but no hope of seeing them with the trees in the way. Come on now, don't you think I'd have ventured through all possible directions? :p

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I like the 35 1.4 for the dof it creates on wider room shots. Works well for the getting ready prep.
 
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While 21:9 may not be a stills Photography standard it is a cinematic one and for web use it works well too. I like to use it where I feel it works well enough.

16:9 (1st photo) is an accepted stills standard these days though.
 
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If that's what you think when you see a those 2 then you'd be completely wrong. There's nothing that needed to be hidden away via crop. They are that aspect ratio because that's how I wanted them to be.

Luckily I am not you and don't instantly think an image is trying to hide something but instead I prefer to look at an image and think whether it could be a useful image or not.

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Just because I posted widescreen cropped ones for the web doesn't mean I don't have standard crop versions as well!



And now back on topic...

 
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Deific I believe they had some delays but will see what the status is early next week and post up the link if it is up. Someone was supposed to send me a link when it is live and due to other work it had slipped my mind.

Raymond Lin said:
It's nothing to do with me being wrong, it's the impression that the crop gives. You are not exactly going to show the viewer a before and after for every shot to prove them wrong.

Neither of these shots warrants that kind of crop, the one in the field is a much much stronger photo with the sky and the weird face one you cropped out the glass because it is distracting...so crop it out normally, don't need to be "cinematic"
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My point is you are wrong. I cropped it because I like that aspect ratio and have been using it for a long time, you'll know this if you've seen more of my photos over the year. The glass doesn't distract much anyway in the uncropped one and isn't something I even paid attention to as it never stood out to my eyes.
 
The fact that you made an assumption that I used the crop to hide the glass as to you it was a distraction. I'm not going to bother discussing this matter further though as I've made myself clear on the matter.
 
Columbo said:
The B&W a few posts above is a stunner Robbie, absolutely love the lighting and you've captured it perfectly.
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Thanks :)

It's the 2nd shot like that I have done and I learnt a lot from the first one, namely controlling lighting and casting the right amount of shadow in the right areas, not too much to look too artificial but just enough to be pleasing.

Still a ways to go though!

Triple sided reflector dishes are amazing I'll tell you this!



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Meet Dave:


Bridesmaid and daughter:
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AWWW YISSS CAKE:
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Cheers! The 1st and 3rd in post #90 were using the flash(es). Everything else above has been making use of the sensor's dynamic range.

I have the flashes mostly for the evening festives. I usually set up a photo booth in one corner where people can choose props and basically go a bit mad:

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The last 2 are part of a project series "Light and Shadow" - An ongoing thing. I'll be shooting more like it over the year and depending on how many I have may exhibit them on a dedicated page.
 
Wedding season is coming to an end soon so they will likely be other things but the format will remain the same :D

Unless some last minute bookings come in :p
 
The make-up lady's top was the diffuser kicking some fill out, perfect lighting opportunity!



Check the sharpness @1.4 :cool::
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"There's something in my eye":
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