On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:37:16 -0800, wrote:

Wow, that's pretty bad. My wedding's photographer goofed majorly on our wedding and produced photos even worse than that. I've recently been spending time trying to fix what our photographer did wrong and have been having surprisingly decent results with some new techniques I've developed. However, the problem with extreme grain is that it often makes it nearly impossible to realistically guess at what's missing. So many fine details get lost.

You would be surprised just how many "professional" photographers make this very mistake.

You never know how many "friends" you have until they find out you are a photographer.
I say this because my daughter is a professional photographer, and her co-workers are always trying to get her to do their weddings. One wedding in particular that she agreed to do was a nightmare, and she told the clients this. They didn't care, they still wanted her to do it.
The reason it was a nightmare was because the church prohibited any flashes during the ceremony.....the photographer (my daughter) had to stand in one pre-assigned spot to take all the pictures (the spot was in the rear of the church), and the only available light was whatever light came in through the blue stained glass windows. When my daughter scouted the church and found all these
limitations, she informed her "friend" that the pictures were not going to be very good. Her "friend" and her friend's mother said that they would be happy with whatever they got.
Well, using a zoom lens with blue light results in really poor images. Using PhotoShop, my daughter spent countless hours trying to adjust the pictures to get them to look as good as they could. The clients told her they weren't happy with them, and that she was a lousy photographer.
These days, my daughter doesn't do weddings.<g>

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