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I really like these, Marcus. Definitely something I aspire to. The fact that there are a lot of posed, set-up stuff I guess is your choice. If you and your clients like that sort of thing, then that's what works for your style/business model I guess. I really do like the processing and framing in 3 and 4 here. As others have mentioned, I am unsure how tailoring the processing to each wedding will look if you had a portfolio of images from different weddings, but it will be interesting to see how it works out.
Bottom line, much better than I can do, but they are really good IMO.
Hi Gareth, Lots mentioned above about the mix of posed vs natural, however I'm finding the reality of the wedding is that brides want a certain amount of posed shots. Whether it is because mum and dad wanted posed, or the bride went to a recent wedding and they had posed, or they looked through a friends album or facebook page and they wanted posed; so sometimes the artistic limits about what you want to produce as a photographer do not match the brides expectations. They are paying so as long as they aren't asking for anything too out of our 'style' or delivery, at Class Weddings the whole philosophy is that nothing is set, you tell us what you want and we will produce it, so we never force certain shots on to a couple, we ask them what they want. Some have a very good idea, some don't. some have 300 shots on Pinterest they want us to do, one had a spreadsheet almost dictating every shot through out the day. Ultimately we take on general requests including a formal list, but quite happily tell the people with the long lists that we cannot guarantee all, but will try for most.
As for the processing, it's not about one wedding have a very washed out look, then the next having a contrasty art deco look, etc. It is just that every wedding is slightly different, so it's about matching the processing to the wedding, but nothing too wacky. It's all generally in line with a set look, just I don't think that having one set lightroom action for every wedding does every wedding justice.
Thanks Gareth for posting, I've always loved your work so to receive these comments from you about mine is compliment indeed. Thanks mate.