Critique Welcomed Graham and Karren

Hamish Gill

Hamish Gill

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Most of my evenings are taken up with work at the moment ... this evening has been working through some wedding images.
This particular wedding was Graham and Karren
Graham is my biological father who I met 3 years ago for the first time ... nice chap!
His new wife Karren is also lovely ... very happy for them both
the photos where their wedding present ... although they dont know that yet :)
Shame it rained all day though ... anyway, here they are


Graham and Karren by Hamish_Gill, on Flickr
 
what do you think of the pp Dave?
Been trying to get my clarity/sharpness/noise reduction control down ...
think im getting there now, I think this has a nice 3d "pop" without looking too forced ... you think?
 
An extremely nice shot Hamish. Great engagement and, as Rob says, they are going to love this one. I think the separation from the background works well even though the greens are quite saturated. I also like the little touches like the raindrops on his jacket. A detail so easy to remove but important to leave as it will remind them more of the day in years to come. Super stuff.
 
Definitively getting a 3D pop Hamish, especially in Karren's eyes
 
Yeah, I had exactly the same feeling toward the rain drops ... They had to stay!
i pushed that saturation on the greens in th back, I thought it gave a nice background!
It reminds me of those 90's patterned back drops a bit ;)

Cheers Chris ...
there is a fine line between adding detail with clarity and sharpness and taking it away again with noise reduction ... At least that's what I'm finding gives that 3d pop that I crave from seeing xpro1 shots ;)
i have actually realised that it is what I like about film photos ... They have that same depth ... Even when they aren't actaully sharp!
To often that depth is added, but there is a false sharpness that comes along with it ...
this is what I have been trying to achibe for ages ... Depth without hard sharpness
its eluded me for ages, but you remember Patrick (can't think of his surname) ... I was asking him about how he got a particular look to one of his photos on his site
taken with a d300 he told me all the things he did to the images, it was only after tinkering with various settings for ages that I worked out that using noise reduction was the answer
what I liked about his shot was the lack of noise, but also the softening effect of removing the noise ...
anyway, I'm rambling ... I'm explaining all this as I've been trying to get it right for bloody ages and I feel like I'm getting there now!
 
That's a very good shot Hamish.
I hope you don't mind me saying, but for obvious reason of course, you don't half look like him.
If you didn't mention he was your biological farther, I'd of ask if he was related to you some way or another.
That's very nice H.
 
It's a wonderful image Hamish and so is the background story. I'm not sure what you mean about depth, but I recently took some settings from my Christmas present (a Martin Evening book) and they seem to have improved the quality of my images no end. I think it's down to removing a little luminance noise, removing all the sharpening in RAW and putting that back with the Photokit sharpener :)
 
Sharp but smooth is the key I think
 
Sharp but smooth is indeed the thing I'm talking about ...
like Rudi's landscapes!

When I say depth I'm talking about the impression of the third dimension
 
Great shot, Hamish! What a wonderfull thing to do, too. Well done mate!
 
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