Too much bloom! You can fix that in the .ini file.
PS What happened to the calendar plans? Anything planned for 2013?
The bloom thing....mmm. For landscapes I'm pretty meticulous about getting correct exposure across the histogram, but with weddings I see things totally differently cos it's all about the moment and the atmosphere. Couples never look at the technicalities of a shot in the way a photographer does, they only see what they look like and the atmosphere...and quite often with shots like this, they think that "really bright light bathing everyone" is pretty cool. I honestly don't give it a second thought when it comes to backlit wedding shots.
The calander...I usually put them together around August/September, but I was so busy with wedding work this year, and then my wife and I had loads of work done in the apartment, so it just never happened.
This year though I'm going to try to put time aside for it. I've just booked 15 days in Iceland in August/September, and we're circuiting the whole island, so I'm hoping for shots of icebergs at Jokulsarlon, glaciers, waterfalls, the Westfjords and lots of geothermal landscapes...plus the lava deserts in the highlands.
So, hopefully there'll be plenty of decent shots for the calendar
BBA said:
The wood work looks is doing that thing where it starts to look HDR. Still looks good, but the people look very natural still. I'm not saying you did HDR, but did you to deal with the difficult light situation?
Nope, no HDR, this is one shot single processed. I was shooting into the light, so to stop the people from dropping into shadows, I over-exposed by 1.5 stops (iirc) by setting the exposure compensation dial at +1.5 which blew the windows out, but got light into the entire room.
The light is low winter afternoon light, it's very warm, and I've also given the image some cross processing (at 40% opacity) as well as a thin layer of guassian blur/sharpening - although the latter has no effect on colour or contrast. I do the same processing on pretty much all my wedding shots, and each of the shots I've posted here have the same thing.
The hdr thing must come from a combination of the warm natural light and the very colourful room (which it is).