My first wedding shoot

[Mister_Pister]

My mate asked me to be the photographer for his wedding. Little did I know how much hard work it would be!

I found it most difficult in the church where I couldnt use flash and instead of the tripod the groom had promised to bring I only got a monopod which is about as stable as a mechanical bull. I didnt get a chance to get the 50mm 1.8 so I was stuck at around f4.5/f5.6 which was pretty sucky so up the iso was cranked to compensate - thank god for noise reduction software is all I can say! Was also dissapointed on having to use the on-camera flash in the reception hall during the speaches etc, it made the pics just look like standard snapshots

Oh and I also had to use manual focus on my sigma because the AF was too noisey not really an ideal set of circumstances for good pictures..

Anyway I think (somehow) I managed to get a fair few decent ones. Would appreciate any comments especially on the processing, thanks.

Full Gallery:
http://www.djtempest.tsohost.co.uk//gallery/2006-08-19 - Alex & Fabiennes Wedding 2/index_html.html

 

[Irish_Tom]

Pretty impressive under the circumstances mate, you should be chuffed

Panzer

 

[Mister_Pister]

thanks mate, I cant help feeling a bit dissapointed with them though. Theres a few good ones but farrrrrrr too many I dont feel are up to scratch

 

[Mohain]

I've never photographed at a wedding but I can imagine it'd be pretty stressful, especially your frist one. There's some nice shots in there I'm sure they will be pleased

One thing I did notice, you seem to have far too much dead space above peoples head, a lot of the time you're positioning their faces in the middle of the shot, especially the group shots. They might benefit some 'creative cropping'. Also it looks like you've retouched the eye in '0029.jpg', you might need to revisit that.

 

[Mister_Pister]

didnt notice I was doing that, thanks for the tip