I\'m going to take your addition of numbers in the edit to mean you\'d like some specific advice. It\'s harsh but the rum\'s starting to go to my head and if you can afford a D3, you can also afford a few photography workshops for something this important.
First of all, pick a format such as 2:3. Then stick to it.
1) Quite nice actually. Would be nice if you could crop her over to the side a bit more but I don\'t think you have the space to do it. Maybe go a bit easier on the sharpening too. She has fairly defined features as it is.
2) You should have been standing to the left. Salvage? Drop the clarity right down, add a heavy vignette and get cloning out those light/electrical fittings.
3) Nice moment. Crop top and left to move her off-centre.
4) Could probably be ok with work. Crop top and right to lose picture and tape. And drop clarity right down again.
5) Bad expressions. This wasn\'t the moment to take the photo. Get cropping, ideally between the old guy on the right and the box on the wall.
6) Crop into portrait mode. You have the mp to do it. Light/door fittings everywhere. Then reduce the exposure. Take into account the light in the other photos and aim for a little consistency. Maybe warm up a little too.
7) Get retouching. Try and reduce the brightness of the skin. And don\'t ever use a flash again in situations like this. In the space of two photos you\'ve gone from a bright afternoon to a nighttime ceremony. Desaturate reds a little.
8) See above. Crop top and left
9) Horrible. Angle all wrong. Crop top and right a little and see if you can do something about the lighting.
10) Lower the white balance. Desaturate oranges. Correct the wonky horizon.
11) Increase exposure slightly. Try and crop somehow. Lose cables coming out of wall.
12) See first comment about format. How\'s she going to print any of these if you keep changing? Reduce saturation/WB/contrast.
13) Drop brightness. Use recovery. Add a slight vignette maybe. Drop clarity too.
14) Increase exposure, lose wall cable.
15) She looks nice here. Pity she\'s right down the centre of the photo. Probably drop the clarity here too.
16) Format. Looks a bit flat.
17) Stop using that bloody centre-point autofocus. I think this is beyond redemption.
18) Contrived and horrible. You\'ve also got the skyline cutting their heads off.
19) Underexposed, centred. Skyline through necks.
20) Ooh! The sun suddenly came out. Overexposed, railings going through neck. You have knees. Bend them.
I don\'t like being this harsh but you took money from these people for these photos and that\'s just wrong.
Sep 06, 2012 at 04:06 PM
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