Rita and Chris’ wedding was awesome, the whole wedding party was into the wedding day, the boys have been best mates with the groom since forever, and so have the girls. Rita looked beatiful on her wedding day and was supported by 4 stunning brides maids. I’ll discuss the wedding day in more detail in another post, but wanted to share one of their “before and after” photos.

As I’m working through their wedding photos I thought I’d share the work flow for one of the images which was taken at Burswood Casino. The limo had just drove off and I asked Rita and Chris to have a quick kiss near the pillar while the bridal party headed off to the room to star to freshen up.

Wedding photo from Burswood ” As shot (RAW) nothing has been done to this image:

The final wedding photo that will be a feature photo in their wedding album

So what does it take to get to this image?

• Remove branding from bar balustrades
• Remove taxi branding/numbers of back of car
• Remove parking signage on pillar
• Remove other bride and brides’ maids from back ground
• Remove speed bump from road
• Clean up road
• Remove limo driver in back ground
• Remove green lady in background
• Remove rubbish on ground
• Remove spot lights in roof
• Remove bright number plate on 4WD
• Remove garbage bin from back ground
• Remove people on left side
• Convert to B&W
• Add noise/grain
• Darken back ground
• Add Vignette
• Add photo frame

So all up around 1.5 hours of work just on one wedding photo.  When you’re looking at your wedding album design and photos, it’s worth considering how long it will take to design your wedding album and how much effort goes into photo effect and retouching.  When it comes to wedding album design we have a few levels of design, depending on that the client is after and budget.  Some of our couples like and want more simple album design and very little work done to the photos, on the other hand some of our couples like the artistic work that we do on their wedding images and wedding album designs.  The choice is naturally always yours.

If you require a wedding photographer, please feel free to fill out our wedding photography request form.

]]> http://www.weddinglightroom.com.au/2010/02/05/wedding-at-burswood-before-and-after-wedding-photo/feed/ 1 http://www.weddinglightroom.com.au/2009/08/08/pre-wedding-photo-shoot-of-danica-scott/ http://www.weddinglightroom.com.au/2009/08/08/pre-wedding-photo-shoot-of-danica-scott/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:55:49 +0000 admin http://www.weddinglightroom.com.au/?p=252 We had a pre-wedding photo shoot with Danica and Scott at Cottesloe Beach.

Their pre-wedding photo showcase can be viewed below YouTube Slide show:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqf0uHsOUos

Also some of their pre-wedding photos can be viewed on their pre-wedding photo wedding gallery.

Their wedding will be at The Goose in Busselton later this year, so look out for their wedding photos.

The pre-wedding photo shoot is an important part of our wedding photography preparation.  We get to know each other again (since the booking/initial consultation), we get to practice how to be “natural” on the day and you get to see how you look in the locations of your wedding day.

Danica was nice enough to write some feedback about her pre-wedding photo shoot experience:

At first we thought the idea of a pre-wedding shoot may have been un-necessary and self indulgent but after experiencing it and seeing the photos I really believe it was an essential part of all of our pre wedding preparation. It was a great opportunity to get to know the photographer, get comfortable in front of the camera, and learn what works and what doesn’t. It can be intimidating having professional pictures taken so the pre-wedding shoot really helped us to deal with those feelings before our wedding day. The presentation Peter compiled for us and put on you-Tube is simply beautiful and we have already received so many positive comments about it.

I cant wait for Peter to share our wedding day with us and am really excited to get in front of the camera again.

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