Better than expected

The wedding I shot today went better than expected, plus the food was pretty good. The couple are really nice and were doing most of the work for the wedding themselves. When I arrived, the bride was setting tables and the groom was putting signs along the road side to point to the location. Other than the caterer, it was just them. I respect this a lot.

Since the weather was pretty decent we could shoot outside which was great, as inside would have been a disaster. The interior had no room or backdrop and would have looked about the same as if a drunk uncle took the photo on a point and click. My friend and shooting partner arrived a few minutes later and we got to work going through the gear. We shot nearly everything on his Canon 5D and 70-200 mm as it is far superior for this kind of thing over my mirrorless Olympus EM-1.

I haven't gone through all of the photos yet but grabbed this one (and 2 or 3 others) when I got home to send to the bride for her Facebook page. It seems important for people to do this and I think it is silly that the first photo they put as a married couple is one from that drunk uncle since the professionals often take 2 or more weeks to get them back to the client. I think the professionals should pick and process on as soon as they can for their own marketing purposes as it is likely that the first post-wedding picture will get the most exposure.

I don't care about exposure though as I am not a professional, I do it for free and this is likely to be the last time. But, she is a friend of mine so I want her first picture to at least be in focus. This is predominantly unedited but I did very roughly remove a security sticker from the door. I will clean it up properly later but this is enough for Facebook's image crushing algorithms.

The bride has lovely eyes and face shape and I think that this particular photo shows them well enough. When shooting, I focus on the bride as in general, they are the ones that are really going to care what they look like and be much more critical of the end results. Her husband even while shooting was not so interested in it all to begin with but, he warmed up after we joked around a bit and had a few laughs.

I am hoping that when I go through the rest there are enough decent ones for them to feel like they got their 'no money's worth' and they are able to find one that is able to happily sit on their bedside table for the next however many years. I will know more tomorrow.

[ f4 | 1/320 | ISO100 | @97mm ]

Taraz
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