Quote Originally Posted by Elysian
Good shots, all of them, but I don't like the extreme postwork. Don't get me wrong, I'm a heavy photoshop user (and artist) myself and I recognise all your tricks, but I think you're going a bit too far in my opinion. But hey, if the people you do it for like it... well that's all what counts or not? Photography wise I give it A+ though, well done.

ummm, ok, let's see here.

image 1, a little color tweak

image 2. burning the sky

image 3. burning around edges

image 4. my softar action (which by the way, is exactly what I would have done with film, except I would have used my pro4 filter system and a warm full soft filter)

Image 5. a little burning, and converted to sepia

image 6. increased contrast and sat

image 7. again, burning in

image 8. increased contrast.

All these "post" processing steps in photoshop, is exactly what I did when I shot film for weddings. These, IMO are not "overdoing it", I just post processed some simple steps to enhance it.