If you know Photoshop and Photo Post Production Techniques I have a Question

I am sorry, that really stinks! I am keeping my fingers fxed that you get some good pictures to work with!!!!

I would be very surprised if the filters were on the lens. Nobody uses lens filters anymore because this stuff is so easy to do in Photoshop. The only filters used are UV and polarizing filters for bright sun. Filters that produce these special effects either don't exist or are obsolete.

I've heard of many people having an old camera turned into an infrared camera. That could be what he did & in that case you won't be able to do a lot with the images. I think they will look much nicer in B&W at least though & get rid of that brown/ mint green.

You know, I think it would be really nasty of him to not re-process those pictures. Best case scenario, he gives you a disc with all your photos in raw format so you can have the originals AND copies of these photos re-touched. I am with pretty much all of these ladies that this is work that he's created in photoshop. My cousin's mother does a lot of bridal portraits and engagement shots, and I know 100% for sure that she changes photos to black and white AFTER, she never usually does any oddly colored pics though.

If I were in your shoes, I would just say that you would prefer to have those pictures in their original color format.

Worst case scenario, the pictures didn't have great colors which is why he tried to get creative with them. If you had the originals, however, a lot can be done to try and fix that.

Bad internet =.=;;; sorry for dbl post

While I am re-reading, I noticed you said he shot them in "infrared" which seems like baloney. If that is ACTUALLY the case, and it does that weird color-sucking-out thing, then the next best thing would be to have these changed into black and white or sepia tones.. if you have any pics of your sister's dress or the correct colors of some things, the only salvation those pictures may have if NONE of them have original color counterparts is that someone very good with photoshop does some color correction/substitution for you.. but that would take skills.

Why would someone intentionally experiment like that, especially when you had a clear idea from the example on his site, what you would have wanted? I think that's a selfish thing to do, considering all of those photos could have been taken normally and with a bit of time in post processing, he could have done similar (if not identical) things. I would love to say he's bluffing about the photos being taken in infrared, but based on some of the things you've said, now I'm not so sure. At any rate, I'm sorry you're disappointed. I'm not an expert but I like to play with photoshop, and if you'd like, I can try to help the way Tlseege has offered and do the color pops as well.

From what he is saying, I think he had a camera converted to IR. It has been a pretty common thing to do lately. I'll find out if there is a way to check him Exif data to see if that is the case or if he is just saying that.

I think the B&W infrared looks fine. Are you OK with those? I hate the false color IR he has done.

I'd tell him to make all the false colors B&W.

Also, it shouldn't matter which image is stonger. You should have the pictures in your book you are comfortable with. I also didn't want the sexy images in my album. It's the book I'm sharing with my grandparents & future kids. I'm sure if my photographer made the album I would have had to fight her on putting the sexy images in my book. She sounded pissed that I didn't put them in the albums I made originally (which we intended for our parents.)