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A few from today.

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This last one is one of my favourites, shot with BW in mind and the conditions were perfect.

 
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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It is still a pet peeve of mine.

It doesn't actually say "cinematic" in the above shots, to me it says "ah crap, I need to crop out something distracting from the top and bottom but don't want to frame too close".

Especially the first one.

That's what it says to me, since the picture doesn't come with a scale on top and sides...it just look like any other cropped images.
 
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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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Here:
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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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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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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.

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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.
 
How can an opinion be wrong?

We can disagree, that's fine, it doesn't remove the fact that my opinion don't think these shots are any better with the crop.

P.s. I have never said you like/don't like that aspect ratio nor have mention this is your first time using it...not sure what that has anything to do with me being wrong...
 
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.
 
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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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:D
 
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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
 
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