My first wedding complete!

CarlosGilbertos

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I had the pleasure of being the 2nd tog at a friends wedding last Saturday and enjoyed every second of it!

Sadly I wasn't allowed to shoot the ceremony (Or in the registry office at all for that matter) so I stuck to candid and B/G shots.
Despite the frustrated feeling that I couldn't be right in the action where the main photographer was I had a lot of fun.

As for the reception, more specifically the first dance, my lack of a flashgun became really obvious! I was gutted that I hadn't put a bid in on a 550ex a couple of weeks ago as it would have been perfect (I won't resist buying next time!). Instead I had to 'rescue' a few shots in Lightroom, but rescuing photos in never a good option sadly... Next time!

Anyway here are a few of my favourites:

1.

W-2340 by Carlos Gilbertos, on Flickr

2.

W-2349 by Carlos Gilbertos, on Flickr

3.

W-2199 by Carlos Gilbertos, on Flickr

4.

W-2298 by Carlos Gilbertos, on Flickr

5.

W-2372 by Carlos Gilbertos, on Flickr

And the rest of the set for those interested :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlosgilbertos/sets/72157627525151463/

I'm still working on filtering my skills too, as I tend to keep everything I find remotely interesting, when I should be more brutal with cutting images out of my sets, haha.

And critique and tips are welcome as always :)

Thanks for looking/reading this far!
 
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agreed, in general i would say they are all underexposed even the ones on your flickr

you have the edit box checked so you should be looking at something more like this with exposure


6138514544_eaae7a7acd_b by MrJoeBoy, on Flickr
 
I'm still having problems with my monitor calibration and can't afford the software to fix it right now, so it seems all my pictures are coming out underexposed..
They still appear right when viewed on Internet Explorer compared to Firefox though (Though that's another story altogether!) :(
 
They are all underexposed, just a glance at the histogram will give you a clue of that regardless of monitor calibration (although that is really important!).
 
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can you let us know EXACTLY how you got to that end result Joescrivens please :thumbs:
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it was very simple and took less than 90 seconds.

Open the photo in adobe camera raw, crank up the exposure handle till the histogram is towards the right hand side for the highlights.

Adjust the fill light slider to bring the midtones up too

increased saturation and vibrancy

Open in Photoshop, go to levels and check you have good distribution, in this case the shadows were a little lacking so pulled them back a touch.

Lastly adjust curves by giving a very subtle s shape to give it a bit more contrast

job done
 
joescrivens said:
it was very simple and took less than 90 seconds.

Open the photo in adobe camera raw, crank up the exposure handle till the histogram is towards the right hand side for the highlights.

Adjust the fill light slider to bring the midtones up too

increased saturation and vibrancy

Open in Photoshop, go to levels and check you have good distribution, in this case the shadows were a little lacking so pulled them back a touch.

Lastly adjust curves by giving a very subtle s shape to give it a bit more contrast

job done
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Brilliant, thanks a lot!
 
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