Tag: wedding

What equipment do I need to photograph weddings?

 Gavin   Tips
What equipment do you need to photograph weddings?

 

What equipment do I need to photograph weddings?

Photographing weddings is easy. Don’t be put off by the illusion of stress on the wedding day because it’s just that, an illusion. The secret is having a plan and having the right equipment to do the job. In this post, we’re going to talk about equipment. (If you’d like to talk about planning the day to make it stress-free, leave a comment and let me know).

OK, so what do you need?

This list is what I believe to be the absolute minimum. Can you do it with less? Of course you can, Continue reading What equipment do I need to photograph weddings? »

The Castle Bride

 Gavin   Bridal, Photoshoot, Strobist

A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege or working on a bridal portfolio shoot with a fantastic model, Helene, and her fiancée, Jo. We also had a brilliant and very talented MUA, Louise of Faceinate, on hand too.

We were to be shooting at Guildford Castle, early on a Saturday morning and although is was bitterly cold, thankfully we weren’t to be plagued by the rain or snow of recent weeks. It was very overcast too with nothing but cloud cover overhead making for very soft, diffused light and although it was quite a dull day there was still plenty of light to work with. This when combined with a typical grey January day meant for a reduced colour pallette: mainly very muted greys, greens and browns to work with. Continue reading The Castle Bride »

Something cool to cheer myself up

 Gavin   Business, Marketing, QTWeddings

Been having a miserable week so I spent half an hour or so this afternoon making this, courtesy of Animoto. Well worth checking out if you want to do something similar. My drop a few of these around the interweb as a way of marketing.

http://wanimoto.clearspring.com/o/46928cc51133af17/4ae1c0a477cb7b86/46928cc51133af17/8def596/-cpid/7ff9e7a4f9dc38bf/-EMH/300/-EMW/540/widget.js

Have fun and hope you feel better than I do at the moment,
Gavin

BTW – I should add that the image quality is poor because (a) I only used 750×500 images and (b) I’m a tight-wad and haven’t paid for their service yet.

Wedding gallery now available…

 Gavin   Courses, Digital Darkroom, Journey, Lightroom, QTWeddings, Techniques

I wanted to post a gallery from the wedding seminar earlier, but coming down with swine flu this week really scuppered all my plans 🙁 🙁 :-(. I’m starting to feel a lot better now so I spent an hour this evening making this.

Hope you like it. NB the image quality has been reduced to make the file sizes smaller and no sharpening applied yet. Some of the images would benefit from this extra boost. My excuse is I’m still not really with it owing to the piggy flu and I simply forgot to do it in LightRoom.

Ho hum,

Gavin