Xtina

Taken on the beach this afternoon - my brother is learning how to use the DSLRs for our wedding as we can't afford a wedding photographer. So I took him out this afternoon, and we annoyed the bejeeeesus out of his girlfriend Christina, by using her as a model Here's one or two I liked

1: Not sure about the PP here. Part of my like it, part not. It looked better in mono I think.


2:


3: Think a vignette may have worked on this:


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I love the natural fell & look of shot number 2.

No2 for me Z, not sure of the PP on the first. The third I like but it could do with a bit more oomph. No pressure on Christie then? LOL

not sure about the first one but the others are great
Ive done one wedding..........never again ,I was the most ignored wedding photographer ever

I love the first one cause it is different.

Number two is the way he should go for the wedding nice and natural.

Not to keen on 1 & 3..... No2 is great.

2&3 for me!

Thanks guys! I love number 3 I think it's one of my favourites. I agree Suzi - it does need a little more oomph, might have a play later.

2 is probably the one that stands out to me most And for the record, this is not what I was showing him how to do for my wedding shots - I was showing him the basics of shutter speeds, apertures, ISO, metering etc

There is no pressure on him at all - it would be totally unrealistic to think that they'll come out like something out of a wedding fayre if he needs to - he can resort to the D80 on auto mode, and just hope for the best! We just want a record of the day, and can't afford a wedding photographer (at over €500 for the most basic of packages).

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I think these are nice shots of the day... Christina sort of looks like it's all a bit of fun and probably having a bit of a giggle when you point the camera... comes out fine to me in that respect.

Re the wedding. Good luck with it. just get guests to take a few too. There are bound to be some decent ones and I am sure your bro will get a few decent pics. The d80 is more than capable of good results even if a little unpredicatable with its matrix metering.

Thanks BC! He'll be using the D300, and mum might use the D80 - and there will be a good few others taking photos too - for me what matters most is good memories caught - I know we won't have the uber posh wedding album - but since I can't even afford the album let alone the photographer, I shouldn't grumble!

I am lucky enough to have a very good videographer as a friend, who wanted to do the wedding for his portfolio!

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