Pics from a friend's wedding

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Pics from a friend's wedding

Postby stubbsy on Thu May 05, 2005 1:57 pm

I took my first wedding shots on Anzac Day as a guest at a friend's wedding. These are some of my favourites. Clicking the image displays a larger version.

The first 2 shots were with a 28/1.4 (thanks birddog) - awesome lens for shots like this. The others were with my 50/1.4 another great lens IMHO.

Comments & critiques welcome

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Edit: Added shot of service from above since a few have commented on it!
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Postby mic on Thu May 05, 2005 2:03 pm

Well done Stubbsy,

Love the little boy one and her getting out of the car.

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Postby Glen on Thu May 05, 2005 2:32 pm

Very nice Stubbsy, liked them all especially "it's all too much" and "waiting"
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Postby Hlop on Thu May 05, 2005 2:36 pm

Peter,

Nice photos. Well done!

Did you use flash at all or just fast glass?
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Postby shutterbug on Thu May 05, 2005 2:43 pm

Great images, can warm them up a little
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Postby stubbsy on Thu May 05, 2005 2:52 pm

mic - thanks

Glen - I also liked 'waiting', but didn't want to put TWO pageboy shots here

Mikhail - mostly fast glass. For two reasons - I didn't want to flash when the "real" wedding photographer was doing his stuff and because I thought it would be an interesting exercise technically. Lost a lot of shots that way though. If I had it over I'd have used more flash at the reception, but fast glass gives nicer shots as theye are less stark (of course I don't have anything but on board flash... yet :cry: ).

Vince - thanks. The before the reception shots had less PP than the reception shots and definitely could be a little warmer now I look for that. The last one here (from the receoption) seems warm enough to me though. For most of the latter shots (eg the last shot here) they had a yellow cast I removed to make them more natural.
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Postby HappyFotographer on Thu May 05, 2005 3:14 pm

Loved what you did, the camera performed well for you. I especially like the shot of the service from up high....nice perspective.

Am I the only one though who thinks the father of the bride looks like John Howard from the back :shock: :lol:

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Postby mudder on Thu May 05, 2005 5:18 pm

You've done well, really liked pageboy, waiting and as mentioned the shot of the service from above is great!

The shots are nice and detailed, and very sharp... I'll bet it was hard to hand back a nice lens huh...
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Postby stubbsy on Sat May 07, 2005 12:50 am

Thanks for the kind comments one and all.

Andrew. I liked the 28/1.4 so much I went to Maxwell's site to check the price. OUCH.

:cry: to hand it back. Birddog tells me these are also very hard to get.
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