Wedding poster

[Stephen Lutz]

I was going through some photos from last summer, and came across one I really like from a wedding I attended (as a guest). I've been doing a lot of poster size (24x36) prints lately, and though, "Hmmmm, I wonder if I could work up something from this?" I added the text at the bottom to fit the photo into a standard 24x36 inch frame. I am pretty sure it will print fine, given that I can routinely get nice prints at this size from photos taken with my Pro1. What do you think about a) the idea itself? Is this tacky? b) the shot itself (that's a butterfly they are looking at, that landed on the bride's son's hand. They released butterflies after the ceremony), and c) the color used behind the text. I sampled a skin tone for the background text color.

[opus]

I like the shot, it's precious and a perfect moment.

But it's hard to tell, is the bride in perfect focus? From here she looks a little soft. If blown up that might be very noticeable. But it just may be the conversion to the web.

And I really don't like the color behind the text. Why don't you sample one of the purples in the flowers, either the ones the flower girl is holding, or the one behind the flower girl. I think drawing out that color might be better.

[Seb]

Stephen, I am not into wedding photography at all. I have strictly no experience with this kind of work. That being specified, I really like what you have done here. The text is a delicate issue as I feel that it could easily turns ugly but I find the effect to be most elegant in this specific case.

As for the photograph by itself, I think that you have captured a nice family moment and the emotion is obvious. The contrast seems a little weak on my monitor (hardware calibrated). I am thinking that the black could be an hair stronger but there is a whole lot of details on the black suits which is good.

I think that this is a keeper.

regards

Seb

edit: I will agree with Kelly that the people faces aren't perfectly sharp. Strangely, the focus plane seems to be uneven. The flowers in the foreground and the background seems deadly sharp, so is the guy tie. The rest of the frame appears slightly softer... On the other hand, I find your background color for the text to be very well suited. A matter of personal tastes i guess....

[Stephen Lutz]

Here's a 100% crop of the bride's face.