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Fun crowd...C&C welcome

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Sep 10, 2014 at 01:17 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Another Post-Critique Wedding [47ish]


really nice and on brand with your normal stuff.
The only thing that jumps out for me is that the processing seems a little heavy on these. The blacks are heavy and everything is slight "punchy" if you get what I mean.
but whatever really



Sep 10, 2014 at 01:23 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Another Post-Critique Wedding [47ish]


Thanks Doug--any specific ones stick out especially? I'll want to revisit it.


Sep 10, 2014 at 01:41 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Another Post-Critique Wedding [47ish]


Must resist pedantic comments... must resist


For a real comment. These are good, really good. BUT they feel more like your web portfolio (and what you talk about being your brand) and less of the dark, angular, architectural, and grand sort of stuff that I associate with you.

It could be the events, but I do not think so.


As for processing, taking a look at a simple example. 23 retains softness while 22 looks crunchy and IMO would be less appealing to a bride.

-and the noise on the building is bugging me in 47. I hate canon shadow noise-

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Sep 10, 2014 at 02:02 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Another Post-Critique Wedding [47ish]


I was gong to say the same as Doug about the processing. It's a bit heavy on the contrast to the point that at times it makes skin tones look bad even in the B&Ws. Like 35 (bridesmaid's arm), increased contrast has an effect on the red corpuscle thingies that makes them look wonky. Then 36 looks like it has a treatment applied and seems very out of place with the processing of the other images. Love many of the images, 17, 18, 19.


Sep 10, 2014 at 02:02 PM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Another Post-Critique Wedding [47ish]


SloPhoto wrote:
For a real comment. These are good, really good. BUT they feel more like your web portfolio (and what you talk about being your brand) and less of the dark, angular, architectural, and grand sort of stuff that I associate with you.


I think you've made similar comments before. I think it's important to understand that I work WITH the environment I'm given. So if it is lighter/brighter and generally more evenly lit and less dramatic of an environment, I don't go out of my way to make it something it is not. Many of the more "dramatic" and "dark" images I've posted previously are dark because the place itself is dark and again, I'm not going to go out of my way to make it bright and happy or experientially different than what it is. Hope this doesn't come off as sounding defensive but it's a little weird to me that you're looking for something in the photographs that aren't present in the reality of the place.



Sep 10, 2014 at 02:19 PM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Another Post-Critique Wedding [47ish]


Updated a few of the ones mentioned in terms of processing. Hopefully it's better.


Sep 10, 2014 at 02:33 PM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Another Post-Critique Wedding [47ish]


dhp_sf wrote:
I think you've made similar comments before. I think it's important to understand that I work WITH the environment I'm given. So if it is lighter/brighter and generally more evenly lit and less dramatic of an environment, I don't go out of my way to make it something it is not. Many of the more "dramatic" and "dark" images I've posted previously are dark because the place itself is dark and again, I'm not going to go out of my way to make it bright and happy or experientially different than what it is. Hope this doesn't come off as
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I have made that comment once before, then you posted a few sets right up my alley. haha. That shut me up.

This could have been the venue/event, but I actually do not mean just dark or dramatic. Take your original edit on 22 for example, the fact that you overprocessed this one a bit makes me think you wanted more contrast in that scene. Possibly it just was not there. Your OCF seems a bit conservative, but that could have been due to the limits of the venue as well.

I certainly do not think you are coming off as defensive at all. I may hone in on it simply because I want to be able to emulate it.


Getting back to processing a bit just because I have been staring at the images trying to quantify the above.... I do not think this set has any more variability than your other sets. Skin tone consistency is fairly similar. I think the variation is more apparent though due to differences in how the scene presents itself.

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Sep 10, 2014 at 02:33 PM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Another Post-Critique Wedding [47ish]


Thanks Joe---yes there were quite a bit of limiting factors on where I could place lights relative to what I wanted lit because of the huge drapes hanging down and how far back the couple was sitting for things like the toast. Also the special dances were during the day so there was a lot of window light coming in mixed with a lot of the room tungsten light. And there were a couple sides that I was trying to avoid altogether because of what would have been in the background wasn't as nice to look at.


Sep 10, 2014 at 02:37 PM
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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Another Post-Critique Wedding [47ish]


dhp_sf wrote:
Thanks Joe---yes there were quite a bit of limiting factors on where I could place lights relative to what I wanted lit because of the huge drapes hanging down and how far back the couple was sitting for things like the toast. Also the special dances were during the day so there was a lot of window light coming in mixed with a lot of the room tungsten light. And there were a couple sides that I was trying to avoid altogether because of what would have been in the background wasn't as nice to look at.


Did you take any shots of them on the balcony? Every time I look at that glass wall I want something interesting to come from it.



Sep 10, 2014 at 02:41 PM
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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Another Post-Critique Wedding [47ish]


No, I wanted to. I probably should have done the last night shot with them up there, but I was worried people would come talk to them while I did the shot since there were people out there the whole time. They didn't see each other until the ceremony so by the time we had them together the entire place was pretty much mobbed with people.


Sep 10, 2014 at 02:44 PM
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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Another Post-Critique Wedding [47ish]


#24 is different from the norm, and really grabbed my attention.


Sep 10, 2014 at 09:35 PM
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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Another Post-Critique Wedding [47ish]


I love this set. Great Job Duy!

small crit, I think #11 is the only one that doesn't fit. I know you were showcasing the table and it probably was important to them but theres too much awesomeness and that image is just lost in the awesomeness

I also predict #24 is a fearless! Take that! lol




Sep 12, 2014 at 02:02 PM





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