AG|WPJA The Artistic Guild of the WPJA

Judges Comment: Yet another great use of photoshop skills to create this dreamy image. It feels like you're looking through binoculars and are watching a scene unfold. The image in the background is well done and the colors work nicely with the rest of the photograph.

Judges Comment: You always want a bride and groom to enjoy themselves and laugh throughout their wedding day. It's rare that you actually get a couple willing to let it all hang out and have a blast. The photographer helps this fun moment by shooting from above making it feel like they just shared a funny inside joke and can't keep it to themselves. Pushing them off into the lower right hand corner of the frame and burning a reverse "C" really keeps your eye dancing back to the couple.

Judges Comment: A beautiful setting of water and mountains create a great backdrop for this portrait. Minimal treatment and saturating the colors was the way to go.

Judges Comment: Great overlay and toning makes this image sing. It's almost as if they are on a median in a street, and the cars are zooming by. The variation of background highlight and darkness works well to bounce your eye around the image and makes you want to figure out where this image was taken.

Judges Comment: Foreground to background, there's something cool happening all over this image! A nice blue sky (layer mask) would have really completed this already great frame!

Judges Comment: This tri-tone image is wonderful. The reds, white and pale blue truly compliment one another. My only suggestion would be burning down the "Chevrolet," it's too white and competes with the couple. Send this one to Chevy's PR agency:)

Judges Comment: The angles, toning, cityscape and flowing dress convey a whimsical and almost magical feeling. Small things, burn down the row of cars on the right and lighten up the bride's face...just a tad.

Judges Comment: This photographer clearly sees in the world is fresh new way! What great way to shoot the wedding party...I'm stealing your idea for all of my Cabo weddings this year! Just an idea, a slight bend of the knees and a three-part image could have been achieved (sand, water & sky) had the wedding party been framed against the water. Great image!

Judges Comment: A sweet moment between bride and groom has some wonderful lines working for it. The image is lacking a quick point of entry that could be easily achieved by bumping up the black point along with a slight vignette. Nice moment!

Judges Comment: I print a bunch of split-tone prints for my clients and this one has me thinking. The cool foreground matched with a warm sky has my eye circling the frame, eventually finding the couple. Imagine a narrow, horizontal band of highlight area in the lower 2/3rd's of the frame with a left to right gradient that focuses the image to the couple. This would make a great 20X30!

Judges Comment: A combination of artificial and natural light is nicely balanced in this image. A lower camera angle would have separated the bride from the mountain range and showed us more of her dress. I would have asked the bride to pull back the hair over her left eye and blink with her left eye.

Judges Comment: The soft and dreamy treatment on this image accentuates the intimacy between this couple. A lower camera angle would have bridged the gap in the sky (white area at top) and perhaps blowing out the background would make the couple pop quicker.

Judges Comment: I shoot a bunch of horses here in Texas and can appreciate the whole "let's go shoot some near my horses." The image has great color but I'm having a hard time finding a focal point. I would suggest asking the bride to cheat her head back towards camera more (showing us more face & less chin) along with taking a camera position more to the left, adding separation from the couple to the horse.