Posts tagged ‘wedding photography’
A real family wedding
I’ve been so busy with the business of photography during the last couple of months that I’ve had little time for blogging about a few of the lovely weddings I’ve had the privilege of recording.
Sadie and Mike’s—Lancaster, mid-August 2010—really stood out as a fun and informal family celebration. Bride and groom creatively involved their children in the build-up and the ceremony. Mike’s daughter out-performed even the best of Best Men, while Sadie’s boys proved the perfect bridal escorts!
It was one of the most relaxed and fun weddings I’ve photographed. (You can read about what Sadie and Mike thought about their wedding photographer here.)
Click on the image below to see the rest of the happy day.
Happy bride with family escorts
How to be a serene wedding photographer
Photographing weddings is hard work and lots of fun. There’s a healthy—if it’s controlled—amount of stress and physical exercise involved too: all that leaping, ducking, diving, crouching, climbing on the furniture to get The Shots.
Here’s a good way of avoiding that just-set-off-for-the-wedding-in-the-car “I did put my backup camera in the bag, didn’t I?” moment. Read more…
Huge softbox, massive gold reflector
Is this a softbox, Daddy?
Why you might want to open a photography studio in a farmyard
Last weekend was a bank holiday without a wedding to photograph, so we enjoyed family time (my wife’s emphasis!) and a much lighter than work-a-day camera bag to carry around. I did have a speedlight in the bag, but, after surveying the wonderful lighting conditions in the new “playbarn” at Greenlands Farm Village, I gave it the day off too. Read more…
No rain, no rainbow
This time last week I was preparing to photograph Jenny and Chris’s wedding at St James’s Parish Church in Staveley near Kendal.
A glance at the weather forecast indicated that the soon-to-be newlyweds were due a large helping of luck; there was going to be rain, lots of rain. Happily, many cultures including ours see rain as a sign of good fortune for the marriage. Sposa bagnata, sposa fortunata (a wet bride is a happy bride) say the Italians. Mariage pluvieux, mariage heureux (rainy marriage, happy marriage) for the French, and “Ēka gīlā gām̐ṭha khōla karanē kē li’ē kaṭhina hai” (a wet knot is harder to untie) from Hindu tradition—hindi speakers, please forgive the Google translation.
Lucky bride arrives in the rain
Luckily for me, my assistant had packed a large umbrella. Read more…
Wedding dress workout
Returning from a client meeting, we stumbled upon an exhibition of historic and contemporary wedding dresses at Middleton Church between Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale. It was a great opportunity for me to hone essential wedding photography techniques of capturing the detail and subtlety of white or near-white silks and satins against white walls in a lovely but dimly-lit church. Not to mention unobtrusively mixing ambient and flash lighting.
Click here or on the image below to see more examples from this impromptu shoot.
Wedding dress central at Middleton Church
