wedding

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  • Jenn80
  on Oct. 27, 2009 at 7:29 AM

• They look great to me.

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  • Threescoops
  on Nov. 2, 2009 at 8:33 PM

• Great color! The second and third one though have things in the background that pull your eye away from the bride. If you have a manual camera you want to adjust your settings for more depth of field so that background blurs out naturally and doesn't compete with your subject. Overall, great shots!

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  • Tmacdog
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 4:04 PM

• thanks! im still learning so what would i want my settings to be to create a more depth of field for those shots?

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  • Threescoops
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 7:42 PM

• You want to adjust your aperture settings to affect DOF. A larger aperture, such as F2.8, with a long focal length will isolate and emphasize in portrait photography. This will depend on how fast your lens is. So if you set your camera to APerture priority and place it at the largest aperture it is capable of, then let your shutter speed be on auto. Remember though, anything slower the 100/sec, will require a tripod to avoid seeing the camera shake. So make adjusts for that.

  This picture a attached was shot with a 50mm f1.8 lens. Settings were f3.2 at 1/100 sec. You can see how his backside is slightly out of focus. If I had more distance from me and was using my telephoto lens I would have created more DOF. Originally it was underexposed. But since I shoot in RAW format, I knew I could adjust that in Photoshop, which I did.

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  • Jenn80
  on Nov. 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM

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  Quoting Threescoops:
  
  

  You want to adjust your aperture settings to affect DOF. A larger aperture, such as F2.8, with a long focal length will isolate and emphasize in portrait photography. This will depend on how fast your lens is. So if you set your camera to APerture priority and place it at the largest aperture it is capable of, then let your shutter speed be on auto. Remember though, anything slower the 100/sec, will require a tripod to avoid seeing the camera shake. So make adjusts for that.

  This picture a attached was shot with a 50mm f1.8 lens. Settings were f3.2 at 1/100 sec. You can see how his backside is slightly out of focus. If I had more distance from me and was using my telephoto lens I would have created more DOF. Originally it was underexposed. But since I shoot in RAW format, I knew I could adjust that in Photoshop, which I did.

  What version of photoshop do you use to edit your raw files?
  

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  • Threescoops
  on Nov. 11, 2009 at 1:13 PM

• I have CS4 and I shoot with a Nikon D300.

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  • Jenn80
  on Nov. 12, 2009 at 10:55 AM

• All I have is PS7. I need a program to edit my raw files.

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  • Shrkmom
  on Nov. 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM

• The colors look really great! #1 is my favorite though :)
  

  

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