We had our friend Tom take a look at some of our wedding photos - He did a great job - he gave us some shots we didn't have before and I was pleased with just the touches he did to make them look more professional. Thank you! We so appreciate it.
Here is just a look at what he did:
Before
A half-hearted attempt at the tilt. This half-way approach didn't look artistic, just sloppy. I'm obviously not a fan of the tilt, but if you're going to use that effect you should commit to it.
After:
All it took was a little straightening and cropping to make it look finished.
Also one thing I was really sad about was we got very few close-ups of the two of us. I looked through all the long shot pictures she had and there were two that Tom was able to crop down to give us some close ups which made me very happy (these are easy enough to do on my own, but my cropping tool - the ever so advanced Microsoft Paint- doesn't let me crop proportionally)
Before:
Nothing too wrong with this picture, but . . .
After:
This is so much nicer! Just look at my handsome husband!
Before:
Again, not sure if this tilt was intentional or not, it looks a little sloppy.
After:
I'm so happy this one turned out so well!
I'm just so happy to have a few more close ups (Tom did some more close-up magic to come).
This one is all about the magic of photoshop.
When we were taking these pictures our photographer spotted Stacia and Richard in the reflection. She asked them to move and got some more shots of this pose, but when she sent them to us we only got the one with them in the reflection (see left-side in the window). I asked Tom what he could do.
Before:
After:
They're gone!! Yes you can tell slightly that is has been photoshopped, but I think it is much less distracting than the reflections. I was pleased!
This next one is my favorite result:
Before:
We had a whole series of pictures of us walking towards her under spring trees. They were alright.
But Tom just cropped them in and it pops!! It just needed to be finished a bit to look like a professional picture rather than a snapshot.
After:
In fact when we saw this Craig "wowed" at this picture. Also important to note is Craig hates kissing pictures. Our wedding day was the first time he willing took kissing pictures and it was grudgingly (I'm sure most everyone is ok with this).
Last but not least. Of the six close-up shots she gave us four of them were after Craig had been sunburned . I asked Tom if he could lessen the sunburn so we could use these pictures.
Before:
After:
Much better!
If you view them larger it makes a bigger difference than these small pictures. But you get the idea. They weren't huge changes, but he was so kind to fix these up for us so we could be more happy with how our pictures turned out.
Tom is actually a very talented photographer. He is great with the camera and not just in photoshop. We keep encouraging him that he could become a professional with his skills. Maybe one day. . .
Thank you Tom!!
