Jack_Flesher Posted October 2, 2007 Share #1 Posted October 2, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) So I am at a wedding (as a guest) and happen to have my M8 with the 50 Lux mounted. The official photographer is off somewhere to parts unknown as this scene unfolds. I grab the M8 and start shooting. Now the light is horrible --- late afternoon sun streaming in through an un-draped window --- but note how well the M8 dealt with it! This is possibly why the photographer, a Canon shooter, has disappeared to parts unknown --- he's probably grabbing a smoke while waiting out the horrible light... Anyway, it was all over in about three minutes but I nabbed about 20 images total. All shot with the M8 and 50 Summilux Pre-Asph. Converted to B&W in CS3 where I also cropped all to 3:4 aspect ratio, which is my preference for images with people in them. Hope you enjoy the images and the story that unfolds behind them: 1) The little boy was the ring-bearer and is 3 years old. Here he has set his mark and asked the 5-year old flower girl to dance. She being all dressed up with nowhere else to go, accepts: 2) He is very smooth. I am actually impressed by his total show of confidence and decorum, and by her expression, so is the young lady: 3) Here he cleverly sets his mark, dances out of his shoe, and elicits help getting it re-tied from the unsuspecting young lady: 4) And finally, our young hero goes for the close and actually makes it; my hat is off to him! Cheers, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cindy Flood Posted October 2, 2007 Share #2 Posted October 2, 2007 Wonderful captures. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSlezak Posted October 2, 2007 Share #3 Posted October 2, 2007 Nice shots - moments like this inspire me to keep shooting no matter what. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted October 2, 2007 Share #4 Posted October 2, 2007 Lovely photographs, the girl's expression in the second one is a peach. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted October 2, 2007 Share #5 Posted October 2, 2007 Jack sent this to me in a e-mail and told him to post them. Just great stuff here Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fursan Posted October 2, 2007 Share #6 Posted October 2, 2007 Wonderful jack. Wish I could do half as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted October 2, 2007 Share #7 Posted October 2, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Jack, these are absolutely superb! Congratulations. When the 'official' photog came back, did he leer at your M8? Would you mind posting the workflow that you used in CS3? tnx, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted October 2, 2007 Share #8 Posted October 2, 2007 Canon shooter was the official guy , must have been screwing around with the menu. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest m.w. Posted October 2, 2007 Share #9 Posted October 2, 2007 A pity that these b/w digital files look so clean, no dirt, no grain, no interesting texture at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdemas Posted October 2, 2007 Share #10 Posted October 2, 2007 Very very nice. Thanks for posting! Kent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cam2000 Posted October 2, 2007 Share #11 Posted October 2, 2007 Very lovely and romantic picture story! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M6J Posted October 2, 2007 Share #12 Posted October 2, 2007 Excellent Jack, excellent! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_Flesher Posted October 2, 2007 Author Share #13 Posted October 2, 2007 Jack, these are absolutely superb! Congratulations. When the 'official' photog came back, did he leer at your M8? Would you mind posting the workflow that you used in CS3? tnx, Hi Bill: Okay, tried to answer your question in the M8 section, but maybe will take another stab here. First off, I use ACR (or Lightroom) for my raw conversions --- I am not a big fan of C1. In the ACR/LR dialog, there are a lot of exposure options, and while they all interact and have their special tricks, the one really useful one for hot highlights is called "recovery". Recovery is designed to re-build highlights that are not fully blown and it does an excellent job. It does not work on every blown highlight, but in this particular series none of the whites were fully blown and "recovery" was able to bring the close ones back to just under blown where they belonged. (That was the point of the post in the M8 section --- as long as you watch your histo and don't let the highlights fully blow, the M8 handles high-contrast exceptionally well.) Along with recovery and exposure for the top end of the image, we have shadow point and fill light to tweak the shadows and lower midtones. Once this image is balanced, I send it to CS3. Here I simply use the B&W adjustment layer and convert it to the B&W you see here. As mentioned, I also take the extra few seconds to crop to 3:4 aspect as I prefer it with people images. Obviously there is a lot more to perfecting output than can be easily shared in an online forum --- at least without me having to write a book LOLOL! But for those interested in more on this topic, it is something Guy and I spend significant time covering in our workshops. Cheers, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riccis Posted October 2, 2007 Share #14 Posted October 2, 2007 Jack: Great sequence, thanks for sharing! Being a wedding photographer myself, I am always looking for these type of scenes to unfold, good thing you were there to document them. Cheers, Riccis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografr Posted October 2, 2007 Share #15 Posted October 2, 2007 Really nice sequence, Jack. I hope the "real" photographer got shots from the rest of the wedding that were as good as these. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_Flesher Posted October 2, 2007 Author Share #16 Posted October 2, 2007 Thank you everybody for the kind words! But seriously, with subjects like these two, it was pretty easy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
echorec Posted October 2, 2007 Share #17 Posted October 2, 2007 Really excellent pictures!!! Superb! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm23221 Posted October 2, 2007 Share #18 Posted October 2, 2007 Nice job. I would hire you as the official photographer if I ever have to get married again! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted October 2, 2007 Share #19 Posted October 2, 2007 Well done! #3 is my favourite. Also I really like the hwo you've done the B&W conversion. - Carl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordfanjpn Posted October 2, 2007 Share #20 Posted October 2, 2007 Jack, Those images are very clean. Did you shoot at low ISO? Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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