wedding videographer

[DGK*CRONE]

[Overbeyond]

I really like the idea here and it is not too far away from being a good original photograph. The people just seem to be badly blurred; blurring is not a problem but in this case there is something "unatural", for the want of a better word, about it.
Very well done though with this effort.

[Greg McCary]

I like the idea and the blurry background really doesn't bother me as much as the background is a tad to dark. I would like to see a little more detail there. I am not a big fan of selective coloring either but I think this works nice. I wonder what it would look like if you reversed the coloring? Maybe A crop of the top and right side.

[DGK*CRONE]

Thanks. I am going to try and give it another edit to retain some of the details in the background.

[DGK*CRONE]

I tried to retain some of the detail in the background. the DOF is a bit too much to keep any more detail than this though.

[smhardesty]

Hope you don't mind, but I downloaded your photo and tried a crop of it myself. I cropped at a 5:4 ratio and cut the shot between the gentleman on the far left and the lady at the back. It worked better for me. Might try it and see what you and others think.

I do like the selective coloring on this photo. The DOF works well here for me too. Very nice idea here.

[GB1]

The concept is good, but there's a bit too much negative space and, like the others have noted, too little light. Do you have it as a RAW? You may be able to recover some of that background. Crop off the sides. She is incredibly out of focus (almost like a ghost), but this one may be savable with some PP. Good creative idea btw!

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[DGK*CRONE]

@smhardesty I don't mind if you don't mind posting it.

@GB1 I did shoot it in RAW. I tried to sharpen it a bit more but i couldn't recover it that much.

[smhardesty]

Something like this:

[DGK*CRONE]

Great suggestion. I did some experimenting with different crops similar to the one you posted.

thanks!

[smhardesty]

Would like to see what you came up with. My reason for the crop was that the man on the left just seemed to be out of place. He didn't really contribute to the scene.

It was also kind of interesting that the scene on the camera's lens is not the scene in front of the camera.

[DGK*CRONE]

[smhardesty]

I like the crop much more than the original shot. Nice job!

[Anbesol]

I wish the video LCD didn't overlap the people, I like everything else.

[DGK*CRONE]

@smhardesty - that's why I like this forum so much!

Thanks for the critiques everyone!