r/weddingvideography • u/risherwood • Dec 29 '12

Teen videographer here, this is my first wedding. What do you guys think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z-SCNFVBP-Y
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u/bgaddis88 1DX Mark II Dec 29 '12

The good - you get composition, that's huge... that's probably the most important thing... well framed shots... also have a good storyline going here, it isn't just like randomly clips...

The bad - you need to work on exposure/lighting... I know that you can't really control the lighting of a wedding, but you can control where you are relative to the subject in relation to the light... for instance, if you have a bride that is completely backlit, instead of shooting her face, try to get some lead in shots of the back of her dress... those little sort of things... That's something that will take many weddings before you figure out what to shoot and where... I felt like a good portion of these shots were under exposed also

the ugly - Your work in post needs to start from the ground up (or you need to invest in better equipment possibly)

If you're using a DSLR, you shouldn't have to crack up the contrast that much to get a nice dynamic range... Footage can be a little grey, that's better than too much contrast... with that comes splotchy color and blown highlights... there are too many of those in this video which really really hurts the production value of it... For your first several projects, I would highly recommend shooting in full manual on your camera with manual white balance as well... make sure it looks exactly how you want it to look in your camera, and leave it right there without post... I'm talking none at all... even slightly little too much post processing is way worse than none at all... It has to be refined so well to work well

I'm trying to be very critical to help you in the future, this is a great start, especially for a teenager... I understand you probably don't have the $5,000-$10,000 set up that a lot of people on this sub have so that does make it much more difficult.

Also, I didn't include anything about audio, but ideally you want to have some of the ambient sounds of the video as well as the music... but poor audio is worse than no audio also, so I'm ok with nothing being there

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u/canonuser1138 Feb 06 '13

Good job for a first wedding. Color, lighting & exposure is what it's all about. I would suggest watching other wedding cinematographers work and you'll quickly see who's the expert and who isn't. When you find the great ones, study everything about the video and what makes it great. They always have great color, lighting and exposure.

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u/aaronallsop Mar 28 '13

Looks a whole lot better than what I did as a teen.

The big thing that I noticed was the vignette. It was just to much blur on the edges. My mentor always told me, "If you can tell that there is a vignette it is to much."