Photographed at the wedding of a friend in Winston-Salem, NC.
Experimenting with my latest lens -- the 70-200mm 2.8 VR. I love the sharp focus on the flowers in this shot. Did a little post processing to try to hide the reflective/halo around the white shirt, which seemed to pick up a lot of the surrounding blue pews. Not sure how this will hold up with some of the more creative point-of-view submissions I'm sure it will be up against, but I hope it might break me into the top 50% for once...
Shot handheld, 70-200mm 2.8 lens at 135mm.
RAW/NEF -> Lightroom
Basic:
WB as shot (4150K, tint+3)
Recovery -> +100
Fill light -> 17
Blacks -> 11
Presence:
Clarity -> 50
HSL:
Red Sat: +56
Orange Sat: +45
Yellow Sat: +38
Green Sat: +40
Blue Sat: -45
Crop (kept original aspect ratio)
Export:
JPEG, 90 quality, sRGB, constrained 640x640
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my focus falls to the shirt. I assume I am supposed to be drawn the flower since it looks like it is the subject of the picture. I would have done the lighting different.
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