Wedding style of overexposed
Aug 5, 2020 09:18:58 #
Aug 5, 2020 09:20:17 #
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
Every time there are posts about wedding photograp... (show quote)
"on this forum, there is always some sort of negativism or complaint about the entire genre and industry"
I guess you could remove "fashion photography" and replace it with...police departments. There seems to be that broad brush
Aug 5, 2020 09:20:59 #
Very well written sir thank you for your post.
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
Every time there are posts about wedding photograp... (show quote)
Aug 5, 2020 09:23:16 #
imagemeister wrote:
And, don't forget chopping top of heads in portraits!
A tight closeup with the subject's eyes 1/3 down into the composition can be very impactful and quite nice even if the top of the veil, headpiece, or hair is no in the frame. Some of the folks here might think in a head and shoulders or 3/4 length portrait, the photographer has "truncated" the subject or "amputated" the legs.
Aug 5, 2020 09:32:42 #
SonyBug wrote:
Anybody know someone who looked at the wedding pictures more than one year after the wedding?
My wife and I look at ours all the time. I have a few of our portraits on display on our "family wall" as well. Besides the ceremony and candid shots in our album, there are pictures of folks who are no longer with us- elders, grandparents, cherished friends. We have been married for 51 years!
I have clients coming back to me after 30 years asking me to rebind or replace a well-worn wedding album.
Aug 5, 2020 09:46:49 #
Longshadow wrote:
Yea, it'll go away and the people stuck with these images will be disappointed later.
Stupid trends...
Yea, it'll go away and the people stuck with these images will be disappointed later.
Stupid trends...
Been married 29 years. Looked at wedding photos one time, right after wedding.
Aug 5, 2020 09:49:08 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
Lexartiste wrote:
Looking at top wedding magazines, it appears that the current style is to overexpose which blows out highlights and loses texture in the gowns and washes out skin tones. This not what most of us strive for.
What the bride wants, the bride gets.
Aug 5, 2020 09:50:34 #
imagemeister wrote:
And, don't forget chopping top of heads in portraits !
Aug 5, 2020 10:02:54 #
Alafoto
Loc: Montgomery, AL
My daughter-in-law uses the same style and has quite a following with brides and graduating senior girls. She uses full frame Canons and "L" series lenses, but has no idea how to use a flash, relying mostly on wide open apertures to give ghostly subjects and blurry backgrounds. Glad I don't do any wedding or portrait work anymore. My stuff would never sell to that market. Her talent, which I wish I had, is being able to very quickly pose people in an extremely complimentary fashion.
Aug 5, 2020 10:12:10 #
I don't see much wedding photography, but I have seen that overexposed look used very effectively with fashion photography. But if it is a trend among wedding photographers, I'm sure many less experienced wedding photographers try it and do it poorly.
Aug 5, 2020 10:28:03 #
Thanks for trying E.L.. Shapiro.... albeit as we both know UHH is comprised of hobbyist who have never endured the intense demands that highly successful commercial wedding photographers face... All on UHH seem to think they could excel in the Wedding genre but remain anonymous since they have no commercial representation on Wedding Wire nor do they have a commercial web portal. Pretenders all...
UHH is such a tremendous waste of time now... what little talent on this site sadly left long ago... it's now primarily the gerontological crowd with no clients except grandchildren (look at their post)... and nothing much to do but pontificate about how great they (are/were). Look at their BIO's All are retired...
IG is now by far the most relevant photographic portal... here wedding shooters with over 10K followers abound... there feeds are spectacular and negativity which is rampart on UHH is virtually absent on IG...
Please stay safe... practice social distancing and wear a mast in public... thanks!
UHH is such a tremendous waste of time now... what little talent on this site sadly left long ago... it's now primarily the gerontological crowd with no clients except grandchildren (look at their post)... and nothing much to do but pontificate about how great they (are/were). Look at their BIO's All are retired...
IG is now by far the most relevant photographic portal... here wedding shooters with over 10K followers abound... there feeds are spectacular and negativity which is rampart on UHH is virtually absent on IG...
Please stay safe... practice social distancing and wear a mast in public... thanks!
Aug 5, 2020 10:31:44 #
PixelStan77 wrote:
It is called "Trendy"
And when their kids look at the pictures, they wonder why the photographer did such a bad job.
Aug 5, 2020 10:39:43 #
Aug 5, 2020 12:04:37 #
Alafoto wrote:
My daughter-in-law uses the same style and has qui... (show quote)
If your daughter-in-law lives near you, you two should team up and let her pose and stage the subjects while you do the proper exposures for the background, using the flash as a fill on the subjects. I'll bet you guys would be really good. If I had a talented family member that could pose, I would still be shooting today. Shooting is the easy part--posing, scheduling, business was always the most boring and time consuming parts and the reason we stopped weddings and portraits.
Aug 5, 2020 12:08:40 #
photoman022
Loc: Manchester CT USA
I don't know about wedding magazines because I don't read them, but I do look at other photography magazines (look through them at Barnes and Noble and put them). I notice that most of the photographs are sharpened to the point of being "crispy".
I bring this up because I wonder if the OP notes an actual trend in wedding photography or is it the printing process in the magazine? Better minds than mine can figure it out.
I bring this up because I wonder if the OP notes an actual trend in wedding photography or is it the printing process in the magazine? Better minds than mine can figure it out.
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