I am super grateful to be shooting weddings in a day and age where post production can help turn an image that I personally goofed on the settings from unusable to being able to be printed and hung on the couple's wall.
The images below were shot on a Canon 1DX with Canon's 35mm 1.4 prime lens at 1/100, f3.2 and ISO 2000. As you can tell the sun was already beyond setting and passing the horizon. I had to work fast to take this shot because the wedding planner at the venue was rushing them to start their grand march and was nagging me to hurry. So I fired off a shot or 2 and rushed inside to get ready. I got home and looked at this image and thought that it was a wasted attempt. But with a little bit of Adobe Lightroom magic, voila! An image to be proud of.
With a little bit of tender love and care (warmth, brightness and saturation) I got an image that I messed up on turn into something the couple can adore for the rest of their lives. What I learned from this is that you should never delete and always keep the images in your camera. With CF and SD cards being easily accessible and fairly priced why not just keep a small 20MB file and see if it's worth the trouble fixing. Another image saved by Adobe, and I am sure it won't be the last.
