Soldato
^^^
That one is really nice.
That one is really nice.
[PIC_THREAD] Weddings
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Soldato
Imo it looks a little too like sepia, but if you like sepia, then I guess it's ok.
Man of Honour
Ah of course, split tone ftw 
Man of Honour
A batch before bed!
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(shooting into the sun seems to be no problem at all for both Sigma lenses, I like
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Soldato
Looks like an ace wedding, was it a commission?
Soldato
Nice shots mrk
Man of Honour
Cheers chaps! It was friends wedding
Man of Honour
Cheers chaps! It was friends wedding
But you do charge for other weddings?
Man of Honour
Maybe. Discussion is against forum rules though.
mrk has never tried to sell his services on here, and he provides lots of great material to learn from accompanied by great advice. I don't see why you've decided to pick on this Cosimo (still feels weird calling you that 
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As above, this forum is carried by a few who offer a wealth of experience to the rest of us, and none of them are posting rate cards or the like in here, so to edge them out with stuff like this is detrimental to the forum. More so than a small line of text on a portfolio that's in a hidden link in an image.
Back to the good stuff. I want to know more about how the hell you wedding togs manage to get your portraits looking so good.
). As above, this forum is carried by a few who offer a wealth of experience to the rest of us, and none of them are posting rate cards or the like in here, so to edge them out with stuff like this is detrimental to the forum. More so than a small line of text on a portfolio that's in a hidden link in an image.
Back to the good stuff. I want to know more about how the hell you wedding togs manage to get your portraits looking so good.
Soldato
It's all about how many DXO's you shoot with.
Only kidding, quality light is the starting place, then composition, then gear (lenses etc) and finally then processing. Great processing can't polish a turd (although myth buster proved you can polish turds), but it is never the less very important when trying to achieve certain 'looks'.
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Soldato
How dare you mrk! how dare you! 
I think I am not particularly good at judging how the lighting is going to translate on my camera, or finding/creating the right light. I keep forgetting that my eyes have way better dynamic range than my 550D, so what looks like soft window light ends up being harsh contrast! Either that or I don't quite nail the exposure. I have found that I can't trust my metering system in 90% of the shots I do. It seems to weight the active focus point so much that if I focus on an eye, happening to be over a pupil, the whole shot is overexposed (using evaluative too)! I'm find partial metering is reasonably consistent though.
Do you guys use flash a lot or do you tend to stick to natural light mostly? I seem to get good results from bounced flash, perhaps because it adds some detail to the hair, compared to natural light. It's all so much to think about when it's all happening!
Soldato
It's best to use spot metering if metering off skin. Caucasian skin is 18% grey, which is what camera meters are designed to meter off. It's also why you can buy 18% grey cards to meter off.
If window light is too contrasty, the subject is too close to the window. Accept that the background will be over exposed.
If window light is too contrasty, the subject is too close to the window. Accept that the background will be over exposed.
Man of Honour
They're a great combination to have if that range is where you're shooting at most
I cannot fault the optics but of course, at the price they are at, I'd expect nothing but excellent optics!I have noticed something odd on the 35mm front element though, I'll post a pic in the 35mm thread in a bit so stay tuned for that!
I don't think anyone out there nails an exposure perfectly /every/ time really, and sometimes it just works because the lighting is in your favour, other times you spend a moment in recovery in processing. It's all part of the routine I guess
What is certain though is that after you've spend a good chunk of time in varying lighting situations you'll become accustomed to how your camera behaves in them and will be able to judge a scene and how much exposure compensation to dial in or where to take an AE lock reading from within the frame.
Indeed and I've also found that with the 5D3 I have to worry less about metering as I leave it on evaluative and then manually take a reading off a certain area to AE lock and shoot the scene after recomp. Take the bride shot above, the below is the original untouched version, the skin tones came out perfectly fine based on how it was at the time but the outside light was still bright.
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This seems to be the case even when shooting into direct sunlight, the 5D3 is allowing me to shot scenes that previously wasn't possible without heavy OE/UE and thus requiring recovery at either extreme in Lightroom which then resulted in image noise from the then crop sensor.
I know this is in part helped by the lenses used, the 35mm is a nice and contrasty lens that doesn't mind being used when sunlight is in front of it whereas the 50mm 1.4 was a bit indecisive at times with direct sunlight. The 85mm is like the 35 though, which is nice!
How dare you mrk! how dare you!
Man of Honour
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