Hands

[another view]

This is from a wedding I shot in January. I'm not very good at scanning color negative film, and Portra 800 doesn't make it any easier! I used a little Gaussian Blur to tone down the grain. I find myself a lot more drawn to the journalistic style of shooting in a case like this. OK, maybe that's a cop-out because I'm not too good with posing. This is the first wedding I shot, and first shot I've gotten around to posting. Definately a new experience. How inconsiderate of the closest groomsman to be wearing a band-aid!

[SmartWombat]

I'd have focussed on the second and ot the first, or perhaps the third (his hands are more prominent) as a way of drawing the eye into the picture.
I agree on the bandaid, but how often do you spot things like that when you're taking the photo?

[stew]

This is interesting photo, IMO. I like the focus on the first set of hands, but I would have made the DOF just a bit deeper, so the follow-on sets aren't so out-of-focus.

Keep posting! -Stew

[another view]

Thanks for the comments. Since it was my first wedding I was more concerned with what was going on up at the altar but saw this shot and had to take it. I focused on the first set of hands because I usually don't like out of focus foregrounds. I shot it from about 6-8' away with an 80-200 2.8, wide open at about 1/60 or so - that's why the shallow DOF. Now I see another shot - zoom in on the more distant hands - even at 2.8 there would have been a little more DOF, which I agree might be good.