Park Wedding Photographs

[adam]

Yesterday, I had the opportunity with 2 of my friends to cover a wedding.
It was a great (and tiring) experience (all day, from morning preparation to reception at night). Now I've got sore arms and legs haha.

I want to share a few photographs from the park. My friend did much of the directing, but overall, it was very natural - the happiness was all there, all smiley, flowed well.

As you may know, my camera is out of action, my friend lent me his 300D

Here's a few images:

#1

#2

#3

#4

[cawdor]

Hi Adam,
I like shot 4, nicely blurred background. Would be perfect if the flowers could have been in focus as well - but then you may not have gotten the background blurred

The challenge with any sunny outdoor shoot is getting no blown highlights, hard to do with a white wedding dress! You managed it nicely on the right hand side of number 3, the lower left side is blown unfortunately and the eyes of the bride are closed. Natural smiles are most important and that has been achieved.

Time for you to recover now

[PiroStitch]

i like the last one a lot, but as has been mentioned about the DOF with the bouquet in focus as well. Also maybe make the skin tone a bit warmer in the last pic as her face is a tad blue.

[adam]

Thanks cawdor and pirostitch for the replies! I appreciate them very much.
Cawdor pointed out the difficulty I had - because the sun was so bright, and the bride wears white and the groom wears black. It was rather tricky. Especially with the sun causing harsh shadows.
On the larger image - her eyes are open, but look closed on the small image - and I do also think that maybe she is making them smaller because of the bright light from the car-windshield-reflector

Pirostitch: Someone else also pointed out on my other photographs that my white-balance was out. I'll have a go fixing them. I usually shoot raw so it's easy easy to fix, but now with this JPEG, I need to learn!

thanks!

[Technik]

My pick would have to be #1, you captured the exact right moment! I absolutely love it, well done

[Alex]

No. 1 has a very nice spontaneous/ candid feel to it. Very well done, espcially considering tough lighting conditions with strong sunlight.

Alex

[adam]

My only *thing* which I was a bit worried about for #1 was the head behind the bride I don't know whether it's a good or bad thing but I'll have a go removing it later and see how it looks. (I'm not a cloning-fan, but I think it'll be interesting!)

Thanks for the replies

edit: I have replaced the last photograph with a slightly warmer photograph.
I wasn't sure how to adjust the white balance - is it by using curves on the different colour channels? So instead I just applied a warming filter in photoshop.

[owen]

Hi Adam. I really like the first image, and didn't even notice the head behind the bride until you pointed it out. I think because there is so much 'action' going on in it that it keeps my attention focused on the b&g