Wedding Photos (First Time)

[Wazza]

A couple of weeks ago, I was an assistant for a friend down in Wellington, as a photographer. I ended up doing a few more shots, (1000 to be exact). All RAWs, which are around 7Mb each. I just selected a few shots which looked good in the thumbnails, converted them to JPG, from the default .CR2 file from my camera, resized, and made into this simple flash gallery.

All the images are 800 pixels max, however the flash page, reduces them all a bit, so it appears the images are a bit jaggy.

With doing lots of landscape photography over the past couple of years, lots of motorracing, aviation etc, People photography is my last hurdle. If I can overcome the people photography, just perhaps I could make a full-time career change in the near future.

The couple have signed a contract, stating the photographer, and assistant (myself), can do whatever we want with public displays, websites etc, for future advertising. So nothing wrong in sharing these pics.

Tell me what you think

http://wazza.nfscity.com/zane/

Also the larger 800px images, are linked like this:

http://wazza.nfscity.com/zane/images/03.jpg
http://wazza.nfscity.com/zane/images/25.jpg

You can see the quality is better like this. 800 pixels, is resized from the original size of 3504x2336 pixels. These should be capable of being printed at A3.

[chris]

Nicely done. -^

[Wazza]

Thanks Chris, was a relief to do my first one. I needed this, as a small portfolio, to make the final decisions by some upcoming weddings around February 2006. Hopefully now, it's all in the bag.

[Radical-Al]

awesome pictures.

[Remko]

Lovely photos, and I'm not saying that to be nice.
I have been photographer for two of my friends' weddings, and I found that it was a matter of both 'capturing the moment' as well as trying out more artistic approaches by experimenting with angle, composition, focus, etc. But your photos are already several levels above mine. :bow:
The photo with the girl looking at herself in the mirror is priceless. -^

[Wazza]

Thanks for the nice comments.

Just had another extremely busy weekend with photography, and it hasn't ended yet. Shooting formal engagement photos in 2 hours.

Was at the "Big Boys Toys" show today, featuring latest cars, such as Gallardo Spyder, Carrera GT, GT3, 575M, Noble GT...

I'll have to sort those shots out, and show them in the next few days.

For now, over the past week, I've also photographed V8/Porsche racing,
http://wazza.nfscity.com/v8.htm

Wellington City, where I did the wedding, and lots of macro shots,
http://wazza.nfscity.com/wellington.htm

And finally, photographed some shots for friends,
http://wazza.nfscity.com/family.htm

Enough to keep me busy for a few days, and there's more from the past 2 days this weekend. Overload. Ah. :?

[Myshkin]

Wazza,

Thank you for pointing out how woefully inadequate I am with a camera. I just took a hammer to my camera... I figured I should stop inflicting my poor photography skills on people and hire a full-time professional photographer to follow me around. :help: I try to look at how people take good pictures and imitate it, but that is not enough. I can capture a moment in that I can take a picture when something happens, but that is not photography, that is recording a moment.

What you do is the art of photography. You have the "eye" that most of us can only dream about. I'm sure you know that, but I just had to comment. Nice set of pics. :HB:

:wave:

P.S. Thank God for digital photography. If I were still using a film camera, I would be wasting film and $ trying to take a decent pic. At least now when all my shots come out like crap, I think "hey at least it didn't cost me anything" ^_^ And my experiments with aperture and depth (which, when it counts, I completely fail at) can be erased from existence without anyone ever having to see that crap.

[Wazza]

Wow, thanks for the big -^ , Mysh

I can also thank god for digital photography. Most are shocked when I tell them as of today, I've shot 62,000 frames on my Digital SLR, since owning it in January this year. Surprisingly most aren't wasteful shots. I've been touring so much, viewing many places, photographing many aircraft, and different angles. To think of the cost on film, I could buy a Ferrari.

FIY, my shots currently work out to be 2cents per shot. And it's getting less and less. Apparently my shutter is rated to 100,000 shots, which is quite high. Should hope so, when I paid US$1500 for the body alone, plus a few $$ in lens, and a new flash. :eek:

I really hope your camera is still in one piece. Hope the hammer has kept it's distance. :)

Thanks again for your nice words.

I'll leave you my recent eyes photo :eek:

http://wazza.nfscity.com/20d/eyes.jpg

[Radical-Al]

wow warren, beautiful picture! (wish I was as good)

[Wazza]

There's not much to that image.

What I did was create a duplicate layer, on the top layer, desaturate, then select eraser tool, and rub out the eyes, then flatten image and save.
I did add a bit of contrast, to add more definition too. :)

There other way to do partial colour is to use the lasso tool, select what needs to be removed, and delete.

I'm sure Photoshop Guru Chris, knows many other good ways.

[Glottis]

I know it's been 3-4 weeks since the last post, but I had to say: WOW! Awesome photos my friend! =)^