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Wedding pic

Postby shutterbug on Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:03 am

Hi everyone,
I have not posted a pic for a while, here is one that caught my attention.
Taken with D70 + 50mm F1.4.
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Postby Heath Bennett on Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:09 am

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.
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Postby shutterbug on Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:21 am

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.
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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:56 am

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 8) :D
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Postby yeocsa on Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:59 am

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

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Postby rokkstar on Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:03 am

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. :wink:

really really nice shot Vince. I really love the colours and the framing.
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Postby shutterbug on Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:25 am

Thanks guys, totally agree about the usm.
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Postby PiroStitch on Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:51 am

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

Great capture!
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Postby bobrob on Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:55 am

" hope he hasn't done a runner "
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Postby embi on Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:50 am

That's him in the background negotiating the hire of a VERY fast speedboat! :P
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Postby hangdog on Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:55 pm

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

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Postby blacknstormy on Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:57 pm

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
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Postby shutterbug on Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:39 pm

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.
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Postby Geoff on Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:46 pm

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 8) :D


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' :)
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Postby Geoff on Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:47 pm

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. :wink:

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 :)
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Postby Geoff on Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:49 pm

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! :)
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Re: Hi

Postby Antsl on Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:45 pm

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,

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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
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Postby Andoru on Sun Jul 10, 2005 12:13 am

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