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Thanks pxl8, I'm going to have to try and pay more attention to that, its not something that I notice, I seem to line people and things up in the centre of the frame.

I'll run some test shots and try out something different this weekend hopefully.
 
Here you go Glo.....

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For those looking at the shots on the website, those of the cake with the dogde background that I tried to get rid of are all my suggestion and work, I just found the background so distracting, and I didnt know what to do about it. I will know next time to think about it more when taking the shot, and to leave as is.
The only shot of those taken at the same time as the other tog was the last of the bride with her brother, but the other tog had taken his shot then when I took mine, and when he was taking his shots I didnt have my camera at my eye was down by my side.
 
Looks like you got some great shots :D

Seems to me it should be you guys getting the £500, but I haven't seen the other guys shots so I guess I can't judge.
 
Thanks Ewan :) ,

It was our first attempt and I'm just glad of the experience we got from it and now that we know we can do it we can offer the service to other people at more realistic prices.

I had hoped that the official tog would prove me and my doubts wrong and I really wanted their photos to be perfect, no skin off my nose if they were fantastic - all the better for the couple who would have more shots to remember their day with, we took the photos we took because we were asked and we weren't in direct competition with him.

Just a shame when I know now that we could probably have done better with some of the shots, oh well - for us they'll be a next time.
 
Well just going on these alone ... you have some pretty decent shots there.
Im sure they will bring back many memories for the couple in years to come.

Theres a couple of bloopers ... to my eye anyway ... such as what the hell happened with the cake shot? :gag:
The other is something that could easily happen to us all ... the lady sat down wearing the white fascinator looks like she has some spidery thing growing out the back of her head :lol:
Tbh, though, I doubt Id have noticed that myself until I got the image up on screen.

The shot of the bride & groom on the dancefloor for me is a lovely shot... the bride looking into his eyes really makes it... a tad more of his face in shot and it would have been a real corker!

For me, the pic that steals your whole show is the candid of the little lad in all his finery, looking totally fed-up with it all.
You see that look on so many kids faces at so many weddings but rarely have I seen shots like that in peoples albums ... priceless!!!
 
There were plenty of cake shots, this was my creative lensbaby shot :p Its ace :)

Sue got the one of the little boy, one of my favorite shots from the day that is. The white spidery thing is something in her hair, it does look mighty odd from that angle though doesn't it? :p

The CD slideshow had 188 photos on it, theres only 10 there so there are plenty of other danceflooor shots (most of which we had to convert to mono because the disco lights were all over their faces and they didnt look great with red and green splodges everywhere).
 
InaGlo said:
Well just going on these alone ... you have some pretty decent shots there.
... the lady sat down wearing the white fascinator looks like she has some spidery thing growing out the back of her head :lol:
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I noticed that too (is that what it's called!) :)

I'm impressed with the shot that has backlight from the window behind - amazing job on that one!
 
Just incase you're interested, there's a wedding photography guide in the June issue of Digital Camera. Which is out in May, for some reason :thinking:
 
RobertP said:
I'm impressed with the shot that has backlight from the window behind - amazing job on that one!
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Thanks Robert, full credit to Sue with the 400d/430ex and stofen for that one. It was noisy as hell so had to do some work with it in photoshop which is why it looks rather smooth.

Ewan said:
Just incase you're interested, there's a wedding photography guide in the June issue of Digital Camera. Which is out in May, for some reason :thinking:
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That actually got delivered the morning we did this wedding ;) We were quite chuffed actually, got a few tips from it.

Thanks again everyone
 
Some nice shots there. I did a wedding once and never again. I'm more about recording what I see (and waiting for the magic moment) than herding cats. I found it way too stressful interacting with people, so top credit to you.
 
The one of the little boy is priceless. Thanks glo for telling us what the heck that thing was growing out of her head!
 
I never noticed how odd that thing looked until yesterday, I knew it was there but until Glo picked up on it and I actually looked at the top of her head and thought, oh, that looks really odd actually.

My eyes were always drawn to her face and where she was looking.

Full credit to sue for the pic of the boy :)
 
Matt Charlton said:
There were plenty of cake shots, this was my creative lensbaby shot :p Its ace :)
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If that appeared in the wedding album of many of my friends they'd think it was some kind of mistake... Sorry Matt.

On the plus side the shot of the lad on the chair works. :D

Number 5 after the cake is a nice standard tight protrait of a guest and works as well. :)

All the others could do with some judicous cropping to adjust for sloppy framing. Tighter crops and balancing would improve them nicely IMO.
 
Congratulations to both Matt & Sue. It's not easy is it? Even with 2 of you.

Sue top marks for the Boy shot. Don't like the cake shot posted in this thread, however you have some lovely shots in your slideshow of the cake.

Matt, what software did you use to produce the slideshow? I have just purchased ProShow Gold but haven't got around to compiling one yet.
 
Application called PicturesToExe Gilly, was about £20 for the pro version which allows you to create DVDs from it too (as well as exe files), its quite good.
 
Matt/Sue some nice shots in there, cant add much more to what everybody else has said, not a bad effort for a first go, that cake shot, im really sorry Matt but does absolutely nothing for me, you need to have something in focus for lensbaby shots to work, the statue head to the right would have been good, but to me it looks like its the top of the cake/flower in focus. Are you leaving the central focus point active for these ? may be why everything is central ?

You really need to concentrate on framing etc for all of your shots, specially if you intend to offer this to people, remember the last thing you want happening is the same thing you are now doing to this photographer, his shots may not be up to much as you say, but someone could end up doing the same to yours. Remember the bride and groom will not enjoy being posed time and time again for the same shots, if you get something a little wrong, i had this experience at my friends wedding in Liverpool Cathedral, the female tog, kept doing shots over and over, and re posing friends and family to the point where they were late for the family meal by 45 minutes ! the bride and groom were seething at this point ! You are under extreme time constraints normally, to produce shots the couple and family are happy with, and thats for the usual "set" shots.

Sorry i went on a bit there lol

The boy on the chair shot is ace well done Sue :)
 
Well thank you for the advice everyone, and we have listened to it and hopefully trying to remember it in the future. I think the most important thing for both me and matt is the the couple are happy with the photos we provided them with, I guess as I am sure someone said they are not looking at them as critically as us, but thats natural. At least we managed to get something they and the families were happy with which was the main aim of the day for us. It has certainally all been an experience.
 
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