Bear, Fish, Bride, Groom.

danny_bhoy · 29 May 2017

Just started the usual culling process from yesterdays wedding and thought I'd share this one. I'd scouted for portrait locations a few times leading up to the wedding but only came across this spot the day before.

Fully expect this to be marmite too but it hit the couples brief

Hope & Ben Preview by Danny Birrell, on Flickr

Meeten · 29 May 2017

Pray tell, what was the brief? This looks too busy for me, but it's not my wedding....

danny_bhoy · 29 May 2017

Meeten said:
Pray tell, what was the brief? This looks too busy for me, but it's not my wedding....

The brief, to summarise, contained the words urban, slightly edgy, different and colourful.

It's definitely busy but I think it works.

Swissy · 29 May 2017

I like it but i would have cloned out the white patch on the floor.

danny_bhoy · 29 May 2017

Swissy said:
I like it but i would have cloned out the white patch on the floor.

Definitely! That'll be taken into PS during the final edits.

Meeten · 29 May 2017

danny_bhoy said:
The brief, to summarise, contained the words urban, slightly edgy, different and colourful.

It's definitely busy but I think it works.

Urban - defo
slightly edgy - I'd say slightly is an understatement
different - errrr yes
colourful - bang on

If the above is the brief, you've nailed it, and some!

Other than the white patch, for me the groom is looking too much to the left.
But I'm nitpicking here.

Orangecroc · 1 Jun 2017

I think It would have worked better as a portrait orientation with the couple in front of the left character. It would put them bigger in the frame and remove the need to clone out the white patch in the floor.
And my weird imagination would have stood them in those poses with the fish spine coming out at the line of their mouths. I may even have lined that up and got them to scream, but like I said, I'm a bit weird.

juggler · 2 Jun 2017

Like it, but it looks a smidge under-exposed and lacks contrast for my taste - both dress and suit look very grey rather than white and black.

epicfx · 8 Jun 2017

Very nice. Although I think the two should have swapped positions and come a little closer to the lens as it would make their outfits 'pop' a little more from the colours in the background. Just my opinion

danny_bhoy · 9 Jun 2017

Orangecroc said:
I think It would have worked better as a portrait orientation with the couple in front of the left character. It would put them bigger in the frame and remove the need to clone out the white patch in the floor.
And my weird imagination would have stood them in those poses with the fish spine coming out at the line of their mouths. I may even have lined that up and got them to scream, but like I said, I'm a bit weird.

juggler said:
Like it, but it looks a smidge under-exposed and lacks contrast for my taste - both dress and suit look very grey rather than white and black.

epicfx said:
Very nice. Although I think the two should have swapped positions and come a little closer to the lens as it would make their outfits 'pop' a little more from the colours in the background. Just my opinion

Thanks for the feedback guys!