Bridal...

I can't think of good subject titles.
I am still editing this set.

This was shot in the morning, sun is behind the building.  I shot it in P mode with the exposure compensation set.  I used a white reflector to light her face/eyes.
PP includes color correction, removing a little cyan from her dress, spotting out a couple leaves on the step and sharpening.

ETA: Oh, and I brightened her teeth a bit too.
CC is welcome, of course.
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« Last Edit: September 20, 2009, 01:57:54 PM by Ginnypenny »
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This may be the least masculine thing I've ever said, but I really like the shoes. 
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Except for her torso and her face, the rest of the picture looks oddly flat. There is no depth to the steps at all, at least on my monitor. My eye is drawn only to the upper left corner. Can you maybe darken the shadows in the steps to balance it out? Might also want to get rid of that weird brown spot on the lower left. I love how you draped her dress and the sheerness of it at the bottom. The pose is very coy. Smiley

Added a green solid texture and changed the layer to 'overlay', which darkened the shadows and got rid of those leaf highlights in the top corner, got rid of that brown spot and the little piece of bench that was sticking its nose into the picture. I then erased back at 50% opacity her skin. Total time: 104 seconds. (I only add the time to show that it won't add significantly to your workflow.)

Wow, that marble is gorgeous!

Ryan, welcome to the dark side! Grin

I attached a swatch of the color I used for the overlay.
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« Last Edit: September 20, 2009, 03:26:40 PM by Marian Murdoch "wildmaven" »
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Ryan, that's okay, my husband has developed a real love for cool bridal shoes, because they are fun to shoot and the images SELL.
She told us she bought the shoes online for $14 but then had to pay a fortune to have them overnighted to her for her bridal session (we could have moved the session back a few days, sheesh). 

Anyway, I didn't notice the brown spot, it's part of the marble/rock/stone/stuff.  I'll clone it out. I'll also work on trying to balance the image out.  I loved the lightness of the steps and how they are soft colored and match her complexion and hair, but I guess the green really isn't condusive to the look I was going for.

The pose was all her doing, I love brides that can pose, they are a dream to work with.

Just a note:  I shoot on these stairs A LOT. 
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For fun I found the oldest picture I could on those steps.  I shot this in October 2005.
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I see what Marian is saying, but had the same thought in a different way. The bride is the only thing in the photo that has depth to it. There's just not a sense of location in it. It was kinda strange when I saw it was 32mm @5.6; I thought you would get more separation than that. So yeah, need shadows to show depth and a sense of place. Looks like a flat painted background with a bride in front, and the bride looks great. Maybe if the column was throwing a shadow or, like Marian said, the steps had some shadows to them.
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Maybe I overexposed a bit.

I tried adding contrast to the midtones just in the steps and that is helping a lot.  I also deepend the shadows with the bride masked out, because I think she looks fine.
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This is a close up in the same location.  Same f stop.  I used a longer focal lengh though, so there is seperation.  The first on has a very short focal length.  That is why the background isn't super blurry.
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Wow, she's older than I thought! In the first picture, she looked very early twenties!

I can see why you keep using that location. Those stairs are beautiful!
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LOL, are you saying that the close up makes her look old?
She is 28.
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Is that what I was saying? *looks around* Nope. Not me! *runs*
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She does look a lot younger in the first picture.  I just finished editing the whole set, there are pictures at the end where the light is different and she looks way younger.  She will like those better.  I'll post later, my computer is busy uploading the whole session to their gallery online.
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One of these days it would be nice to see the entire gallery of a photo shoot. We only ever get to see select images. I think it would be helpful to see how a pro does an entire set. Smiley
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Oh yeah, I should post a whole set or send you the gallery.  I would like to see whole sets from real pros though.  I don't have a set "method" per se.  I try and get a variety of poses and then head shots, 3/4's, full lengths and also some larger scenic pictures with the bride smaller in the frame.  That's about it.
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