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Nov 16, 2020 08:23:13 #

David Martin Loc: Cary, NC

Adjusted white balance, tweaked skin tones, cropped a bit.
Reduced background exposure in the second image.

Nov 16, 2020 08:42:13 #

jim quist Loc: Missouri

Here's my two cents worth

Nov 16, 2020 08:44:29 #

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

TreborLow wrote:

Hi,
I am only a middling amatuer, but I tried. I enlarged the image, did some sharpening and noise reduction and skin smoothing. Then rebalanced the colors for better whites, added a vignette and recentered the image. Hope you like it.
Best luck to the newly weds!
Bob

Very good! To go further, I would select the background and apply some blur to reduce the distracting detail by simulating a shallower DOF.

Stan

Nov 16, 2020 09:03:53 #

twosummers Loc: Melbourne Australia or Lincolnshire England

Navywife66 wrote:

This photo was taken by an amateur trying to help ... (show quote)

Here you go!

(Download)

Nov 16, 2020 09:13:25 #

Navywife66 Loc: NC

Dan Thornton wrote:

I made two attempts.

Thank you for your input! So far I have many options to go through on my larger computer and send along to her! Thank you again!

Nov 16, 2020 09:15:34 #

Navywife66 Loc: NC

David Martin wrote:

Adjusted white balance, tweaked skin tones, cropped a bit.
Reduced background exposure in the second image.

Thank you David!

Nov 16, 2020 09:17:49 #

Navywife66 Loc: NC

jim quist wrote:

Here's my two cents worth

Thank you kindly Jim!

Nov 16, 2020 09:23:37 #

Navywife66 Loc: NC

I am so grateful for all of your time and efforts helping me out with this photo! Not only is it helpful in trying to create a printable pic for the Bride and Groom but it’s a learning experience for me being editing is sometimes challenging for me especially with something like this! Have a wonderful day!!

Nov 16, 2020 09:33:28 #

Dannj

Wallen wrote:

Hope you like these...
Adjusted the colors only & slight sharpening and some nuances on the back & mouth. Did not want to change the photo too much.

The bottom two are great!

Nov 16, 2020 09:34:52 #

Dannj

Anyway someone can adjusts the priest’s head so he is looking at the joyous couple?🥴

Nov 16, 2020 09:40:43 #

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

If you can do layers and masking you could turn the background to B&W and blur it a bit, then work on the couple to correct color and brighten like others have done.

Nov 16, 2020 12:29:59 #

Lucian Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio

Navywife66 wrote:

I do agree it’s a great capture. However their not in love with it and want it to be clearer and not so orange. Thank you though for your input I do appreciate it!

Well since they used a friend to shoot the wedding instead of paying for a professional wedding photographer, they really should not be complaining at all. I am assuming they did not pay this photographer either.

I don't want to bash anyone but this is the problem with so many of these weddings where they will pay for a hall and dress and catering and flowers but skimp on the one thig that will last, the photography.

If the shutter was too slow, there will be blur, and it can't be fixed, if the light was not correctly exposed for in brightness or colour balance, then they might be stuck with what they got. My best suggestions, since this is a photo that can be reshot, is to get dressed up again and ask the priest to be available and hire a photographer that knows what he is doing and recreate the shot just the way they want it to look. No one will know it was not shot on the day other than the three in the recreated photo.

Nov 16, 2020 12:30:04 #

boncrayon

I would reduce the color saturation a bit and add a small amount of blue to reduce the heavy yellow.

Nov 16, 2020 12:42:22 #