2nd Wedding - practice from last weekend

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2nd Wedding - practice from last weekend

Postby neroli on Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:48 pm

A few candid shots from the other wedding party that were having pics taken last weekend. Same as first wedding, low light but no flash etc so as not to interfere with the pro photogs etc.

Thanks to Padey for reminding me about contrast :) - I revisited these and got a bit more aggresive with the local contrast and I think they are a lot better.

C&C appreciated.

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Postby LostDingo on Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:21 pm

last shot is excellent :D :up:
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Postby Alpha_7 on Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:56 pm

Beautiful stuff! The shots of the kids are excellent.
#6 The one with the boy and man looks like it could use warming up a little to me..(uncalibrated LCD though).

#2 Is a great shot, very cute.
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Postby Alex on Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:05 pm

Great shots! Love the last two.

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Postby marcotrov on Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:09 pm

Lovely series Judy. The last is a beautiful poignant image
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Postby neroli on Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:00 pm

LostDingo wrote:last shot is excellent :D :up:


Thanks LostDingo!

The kids were adorable, couldn't resist :)

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Postby neroli on Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:01 pm

Alpha_7 wrote:Beautiful stuff! The shots of the kids are excellent.
#6 The one with the boy and man looks like it could use warming up a little to me..(uncalibrated LCD though).

#2 Is a great shot, very cute.


Thanks for the comments Craig. You're right about #6, I'm not too good at removing colour casts... it's better than the original though. I need to try again.

#2 She was a real cutie!

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Postby neroli on Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:03 pm

Alex wrote:Great shots! Love the last two.

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Thanks heaps Alex.

The little boy was the eldest of the kids and he was packing a real shitty. Obviously had enough of posing etc. I think this was Dad trying to talk him round - didn't work LOL.

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Postby neroli on Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:04 pm

marcotrov wrote:Lovely series Judy. The last is a beautiful poignant image
cheers
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Thanks for the comments Marco, appreciate it.

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Postby wendellt on Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:09 pm

all great especially if you were doing candids
you have skill there in capturing a lovely moments which ain't easy

the tone on the 2nd image is great
but the last one of the girl is just fabulous
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Postby neroli on Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:46 pm

wendellt wrote:all great especially if you were doing candids
you have skill there in capturing a lovely moments which ain't easy

the tone on the 2nd image is great
but the last one of the girl is just fabulous


Gee, thanks Wendell!

The lighting etc is all over the place, it was late afternoon and I didn't use any flash etc. As I mentioned in my other post - I just came across a couple of wedding parties having pics taken, and asked the photographers of the other wedding if I could take some pics. I took lots of the other wedding, and didn't get so many of this one. Light was disappearing fast by the time they came over to the pier. Deliberately didn't use flash as I was trying to be unobtrusive and keep out of the way.

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Postby mudder on Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:00 pm

The lighting on these would have been a real test, using no flash and trying to be unobtrusive, so I think you've exposed them really well.

The ones of the kids are bloody great, but the stand-outs are Dad talking to his boy, and the young girl with her hand to her mouth, both are excellent shots, both special moments very well captured... They deserve to be in the album...
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Postby PiroStitch on Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:16 pm

The candid kid captures are brilliant especially with the environment you were working with :) Keep it up.
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Postby padey on Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:32 pm

Really nice work Judy.

It looked like the kids were starting to expire. Par for course in my experience.
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Postby neroli on Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:36 pm

PiroStitch wrote:The candid kid captures are brilliant especially with the environment you were working with :) Keep it up.


Thanks PiroStitich appreciate the comments.

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Postby neroli on Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:37 pm

padey wrote:Really nice work Judy.

It looked like the kids were starting to expire. Par for course in my experience.


Thanks a lot Padey, appreciate it. The kids had sure had enough, though only the eldest was being a pain. There's a moral in that story - don't have four littlies in your bridal party LOL.

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