Best Wedding photos of 2014

Best Wedding photos of 2014

Author
Discussion

rottie102

Original Poster:

3,993 posts

183 months

Friday 19th December 2014
quotequote all

RobbieKB

7,715 posts

182 months

Sunday 21st December 2014
quotequote all
Some of those are fantastic but some... not so much. Unless resizing has mullered the IQ of the two gay guys, that's such a poor quality shot.

_dobbo_

14,321 posts

247 months

Monday 22nd December 2014
quotequote all
RobbieKB said:
Some of those are fantastic but some... not so much. Unless resizing has mullered the IQ of the two gay guys, that's such a poor quality shot.
I thought the same - I think the HuffPo website has butchered some of these by making them all the same width

honest_delboy

1,498 posts

199 months

Wednesday 24th December 2014
quotequote all
How many of these are actual weddings and how many are posed models? Some of those shots look like they've taken a fair chunk of time to create.

MartinP

1,275 posts

237 months

Wednesday 24th December 2014
quotequote all
None of the staged shots on there would take more than a few minutes to set up, so could all be genuine weddings. The Ryan Brenizer photo (backlit rain) is certainly a real wedding.

Andy M

3,755 posts

258 months

Thursday 25th December 2014
quotequote all
RobbieKB said:
Some of those are fantastic but some... not so much. Unless resizing has mullered the IQ of the two gay guys, that's such a poor quality shot.
Looks like the Brenizer Method: http://ryanbrenizer.com/category/brenizer-method/

RobbieKB

7,715 posts

182 months

Thursday 25th December 2014
quotequote all
Andy M said:
RobbieKB said:
Some of those are fantastic but some... not so much. Unless resizing has mullered the IQ of the two gay guys, that's such a poor quality shot.
Looks like the Brenizer Method: http://ryanbrenizer.com/category/brenizer-method/
There are a few of Ryan's work in that list IIRC.

kman

1,108 posts

210 months

Sunday 18th January 2015
quotequote all
I think this is a better selection of top work from ispwp:

http://www.boredpanda.com/wedding-photo-awards-201...

budfox

1,510 posts

128 months

Sunday 18th January 2015
quotequote all
kman said:
I think this is a better selection of top work from ispwp:

http://www.boredpanda.com/wedding-photo-awards-201...
Some nice photos for sure, but give most half-decent photographers some of those locations,some time to set up those shots, and then a lot of post-prod and they'd churn them out all day long.

I'll get shot down in flames but there are only three or four photos there that I would regard as exceptional, and one or two that I regard as average at best.

Derek Smith

45,512 posts

247 months

Sunday 18th January 2015
quotequote all
budfox said:
Some nice photos for sure, but give most half-decent photographers some of those locations,some time to set up those shots, and then a lot of post-prod and they'd churn them out all day long.

I'll get shot down in flames but there are only three or four photos there that I would regard as exceptional, and one or two that I regard as average at best.
Should wedding photographs be judge on the basis of art?

It depends how you view the function of wedding photography I suppose.

I think that if you put yourself into the place of the participants then most of these would these trigger an emotional response to the day, not just the image. The one by the graveside is poignant - a bit over the top for me - but for the participants, it might be the one which validates the day. A friend of mine got married just a couple of weeks after the death of her mother who asked her not to cancel the big day. It brought that back to me from 1968/9 so a trigger.

I produced a video of my daughter's best friend's wedding, the brief being to record everyone who came. They, and the bride's mother, loved it. The only time the principals were shown was in the background and blurred. They said they played it more than the 'official' one. So things like the kids playing about has a point.

I'm not too sure about the woman who married the dog though.

MysteryLemon

4,968 posts

190 months

Sunday 18th January 2015
quotequote all
budfox said:
Some nice photos for sure, but give most half-decent photographers some of those locations,some time to set up those shots, and then a lot of post-prod and they'd churn them out all day long.

I'll get shot down in flames but there are only three or four photos there that I would regard as exceptional, and one or two that I regard as average at best.
Can't agree more. There's one in there I would say was appalling simply based on the quality of the image alone. The one with the mountains has a wonky horizon biggrin

A few very nice ones in there though but the rest are just the average wedding pic.

Edited by MysteryLemon on Sunday 18th January 15:27

LongQ

13,864 posts

232 months

Sunday 18th January 2015
quotequote all
MysteryLemon said:
Can't agree more. There's one in there I would say was appalling simply based on the quality of the image alone. The one with the mountains has a wonky horizon biggrin

A few very nice ones in there though but the rest are just the average wedding pic.

Edited by MysteryLemon on Sunday 18th January 15:27
I suppose that's what happens when you ask for images to be submitted so that you can write features now and again to make sure a certain section of your readership keeps coming back.

Meanwhile in the comments the photographers are promoting their businesses and at least one other who has previously been in a Huffington article (they claim) is annoyed because they were not included in this one.

Make of it what you will, I wonder how much it costs to get into the spread?

MysteryLemon

4,968 posts

190 months

Sunday 18th January 2015
quotequote all
LongQ said:
I suppose that's what happens when you ask for images to be submitted so that you can write features now and again to make sure a certain section of your readership keeps coming back.

Meanwhile in the comments the photographers are promoting their businesses and at least one other who has previously been in a Huffington article (they claim) is annoyed because they were not included in this one.

Make of it what you will, I wonder how much it costs to get into the spread?
Yep, I'm sure this is more a case of "Best image submitted by the photographers willing to pay enough to be featured in this article 2014"