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Hi everyone,
I have not posted a pic for a while, here is one that caught my attention.
Taken with D70 + 50mm F1.4.

Ahhh. the joys of available light. I presume low aperture handheld because of the particular lens?

Love the cold outside, warm inside theme.

She also has large mammory glands, but that is another story entirely.

Heath Bennett wrote:Ahhh. the joys of available light. I presume low aperture handheld because of the particular lens?

Love the cold outside, warm inside theme.

Yep, handheld with low aperture. It was a candid capture as bride was waiting for groom.

Vince - I love this shot - not only for the blue background but for the look on the brides face as well - only critique might be that I see halation suggesting excessive USM

Nicely composed. Good contrast of white against blue. Need a bit more light and DOF. Picture appeared to be a bit over sharpened.

regards,

Arthur

Hmm, they obviously do things rather differently in Aus. In the UK it's the groom that waits at the alter for the bride, and he certainly doesnt lounge around waiting for her. he stands patiently.

really really nice shot Vince. I really love the colours and the framing.

Thanks guys, totally agree about the usm.

If she was waiting for the groom, the expression on her face is priceless

Great capture!

" hope he hasn't done a runner "
bobrob

That's him in the background negotiating the hire of a VERY fast speedboat!

I like this. The composition, colours and pose are terrific, although the bride might not be thrilled with the capture of that particular expression. (Having said that, it's not a bad expression!)

--Chuan

I really like this shot - the colours really appeal to me. Not very often we have to wait for a man.... or so my other half always tells me!! LOL
Rel

Thank you for the great feedback. At the moment it is in the album design, couple has not got back to me with the changes as yet.

sirhc55 wrote:Vince - I love this shot - not only for the blue background but for the look on the brides face as well - only critique might be that I see halation suggesting excessive USM

Quite correctly and very observantly Chris, I am noticing you are one to see the halation well before most of us...I now pronounce you 'the halo policeman'

rokkstar wrote:Hmm, they obviously do things rather differently in Aus. In the UK it's the groom that waits at the alter for the bride, and he certainly doesnt lounge around waiting for her. he stands patiently.

really really nice shot Vince. I really love the colours and the framing.

Hi rokkstar - I have to say, your avatar still really cracks me up

Great shot shutterbug, u now need to put a speech bubble above her... 'where is the slack &(*&^%$ , he's ALWAYS making me wait for him, if it's not his hair, it's his nails, if it's not his nails it's his eyebrows...' hehehehehe...seriously though, nice candid!

yeocsa wrote:Nicely composed. Good contrast of white against blue. Need a bit more light and DOF. Picture appeared to be a bit over sharpened.

regards,

Arthur

There are days when I reckon a f1.4 lens is begging to be used wide open and this is one of them... why use increased depth of field? A mentor of mine once said that the mood in an image was usually inversely proportional to the amount of light available within the scene and this is a good example. My advice (and I'm sure it is what you have done) is open the aperture wide to let in that available light (and defocus that background)... and then balance your shutterspeed and ISO to suit. If you were working the scene fast and handheld you do not want to spend five minutes setting up a tripod when there are other images to make (like the one of the groom standing 20 metres away in another room waiting for his bride!

Good work... Ants

Nice shot shutterbug! Can you put up the same picture but with less usm for our appreciation please? Thx!