Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts
Monday, 6 December 2010
Malta Wedding
Here is a video compilation of the wedding pictures taken in Malta. They are a mixture of the photos I took and the ones from the professional photographer
Monday, 25 October 2010
Malta Moments
At the end of last month, I headed over to Malta for a wedding and a well received break. Two good friends were getting married over there and a contingent of family and friends all went over for the occasion.
Other than a few pre wedding shots that the bride had requested and a few snaps of the wedding, I barely touched my camera for the rest of the week but here are a few Malta moments that I did catch.
View from my hotel
Malta sunrise
Boats
Malta Sunset
As usual, click the images to enlarge.
Other than a few pre wedding shots that the bride had requested and a few snaps of the wedding, I barely touched my camera for the rest of the week but here are a few Malta moments that I did catch.
View from my hotel
Malta sunrise
Boats
Malta Sunset
As usual, click the images to enlarge.
Sunday, 17 October 2010
Wedding Day
Back in August I did another wedding shoot for a friend. This time I got paid which was nice and gave me a bit more spending money when I went on holiday recently :)
After the wedding I did earlier in the year I found this one a lot easier and knowing less people I felt that I could be a lot more assertive in telling people what to do, where to stand etc!
I also did the pre wedding shots for the bride to be which I enjoyed as I could be a bit more creative (see the first picture below).
I managed to save a lot of time post wedding with the processing of the photos as I had learnt from previous mistakes!
Anyway, here are a few shots from the day...
As usual, click the images to enlarge.
After the wedding I did earlier in the year I found this one a lot easier and knowing less people I felt that I could be a lot more assertive in telling people what to do, where to stand etc!
I also did the pre wedding shots for the bride to be which I enjoyed as I could be a bit more creative (see the first picture below).
I managed to save a lot of time post wedding with the processing of the photos as I had learnt from previous mistakes!
Anyway, here are a few shots from the day...
As usual, click the images to enlarge.
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Makeup - A Girls 2nd Best Friend!
Had a really hectic month or so hence the severe lack of posts.
Attended 4 weddings in the past 6 weeks and was the official photographer at one for some friends (photos to follow on a later post) so been busy busy with all that and life in general.
Anyway, I have also recently helped out a friend of a friend with a few pictures as she is starting up as a beauty therapist and wedding makeup artist and needed a few shots for her website and advertising.
Here a a few shots from the day...
As usual, click the images to enlarge.
Attended 4 weddings in the past 6 weeks and was the official photographer at one for some friends (photos to follow on a later post) so been busy busy with all that and life in general.
Anyway, I have also recently helped out a friend of a friend with a few pictures as she is starting up as a beauty therapist and wedding makeup artist and needed a few shots for her website and advertising.
Here a a few shots from the day...
As usual, click the images to enlarge.
Monday, 28 June 2010
Wedding Shoot Tips
As promised in my Wedding Shoot post, here is a follow up.
This might be useful to you if you are thinking of doing your first wedding shoot.
Venue - I found that it was well worth visiting the venue before the wedding day to take some sample shots (of the bride and groom if possible). This will give you some idea of the space available and the different backgrounds that can be utilised. It will also give the prospective bride and groom a chance to see how the scene looks in pictures and make choices on where they would like the photos taken. Also, think about where the photographs will be taken if the weather is bad on the wedding day as it was on the wedding shoot that I did (it rained for most of the day)!
Tripod - If you have one then it's worth using. I had to do most of the formal shots indoors. Also a quick tip - make sure you set it up and it's level before you start taking the shots. Mine was slightly off level and although it's easy enough to straighten up the pictures whilst processing it will save you a job if it's right at the time!
Lenses - You're more than likely not going to have time to change lenses, especially during the formal shoot so go with a good all rounder.
Cropping - If you're like me and most of your photographs are used online then you'd probably be more used to cropping to common screen resolution sizes rather than print sizes. I spent a lot of time re-converting my original RAW images and re-cropping photos after making this error initially! Photos that are likely to be printed need to be cropped to a print size ratio (such as 7x5"). If you just hand a printer a copy of all your shots straight from the camera then they will be cropped during the printing process and you may end up with important bits missing!
File Format - If you have a camera which will shoot in RAW format then that's the way to go. The photographs will take up more space on your memory cards and will take longer to process after the day but you will be able to make many more adjustments after the event which is great as you probably will not have time to review each shot in great detail in real time.
I hope that this post has been of use to any prospective amateur wedding photographers. I've got another wedding to shoot later in the year so I will be putting these things in to practice then.
Here are a few photos from my first wedding shoot...
This might be useful to you if you are thinking of doing your first wedding shoot.
Venue - I found that it was well worth visiting the venue before the wedding day to take some sample shots (of the bride and groom if possible). This will give you some idea of the space available and the different backgrounds that can be utilised. It will also give the prospective bride and groom a chance to see how the scene looks in pictures and make choices on where they would like the photos taken. Also, think about where the photographs will be taken if the weather is bad on the wedding day as it was on the wedding shoot that I did (it rained for most of the day)!
Tripod - If you have one then it's worth using. I had to do most of the formal shots indoors. Also a quick tip - make sure you set it up and it's level before you start taking the shots. Mine was slightly off level and although it's easy enough to straighten up the pictures whilst processing it will save you a job if it's right at the time!
Lenses - You're more than likely not going to have time to change lenses, especially during the formal shoot so go with a good all rounder.
Cropping - If you're like me and most of your photographs are used online then you'd probably be more used to cropping to common screen resolution sizes rather than print sizes. I spent a lot of time re-converting my original RAW images and re-cropping photos after making this error initially! Photos that are likely to be printed need to be cropped to a print size ratio (such as 7x5"). If you just hand a printer a copy of all your shots straight from the camera then they will be cropped during the printing process and you may end up with important bits missing!
File Format - If you have a camera which will shoot in RAW format then that's the way to go. The photographs will take up more space on your memory cards and will take longer to process after the day but you will be able to make many more adjustments after the event which is great as you probably will not have time to review each shot in great detail in real time.
I hope that this post has been of use to any prospective amateur wedding photographers. I've got another wedding to shoot later in the year so I will be putting these things in to practice then.
Here are a few photos from my first wedding shoot...
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Wedding Shoot
So, it's has been a while since I posted. It's actually been over a month so I've really been slipping this time....sorry folks. I aim to start posting a bit more regularly again (time permitting!).
Anyway, along with work and the other things that keep most of us busy, I have recently done my first wedding shoot! It was for some good friends and although somewhat stressful at times during the day and a lot of work on the computer after the event I have learnt a lot and hopefully ended up with a good album of pictures that they will like.
I'm not going to post any pictures of the actual wedding here until the happy couple have seen them (they are still off enjoying their honeymoon) but I did take the shot below of the invitation to use as a Wedding photo DVD cover so will share that one.
For any of you who are thinking (or have been asked) to do your first wedding shoot I will follow this post up in the next week or so with some of the problems I had, mistakes I made and tips that may be useful so watch this space.
Anyway, along with work and the other things that keep most of us busy, I have recently done my first wedding shoot! It was for some good friends and although somewhat stressful at times during the day and a lot of work on the computer after the event I have learnt a lot and hopefully ended up with a good album of pictures that they will like.
I'm not going to post any pictures of the actual wedding here until the happy couple have seen them (they are still off enjoying their honeymoon) but I did take the shot below of the invitation to use as a Wedding photo DVD cover so will share that one.
For any of you who are thinking (or have been asked) to do your first wedding shoot I will follow this post up in the next week or so with some of the problems I had, mistakes I made and tips that may be useful so watch this space.
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Happy Anniversary
Two of my very good friends Si and Rachel celebrated their first wedding anniversary at the start of the month....many congratulations to them.
As I like to do a little something when friends reach this first milestone I decided to have a think to see if I could come up for an original idea for a gift. On the tables during the meal on the wedding day there were little boxes wrapped up like presents with ribbon decorated with the bride and grooms name and the date of their marriage. In England I think these are for good luck and contain sugared almonds (I think!). Luckily I kept hold of mine from the day so dug out the old light box and went to work.
The final shot that I produced was printed then framed in dark. I was pleased with the result and the happy couple were also very happy with the gift.
As I like to do a little something when friends reach this first milestone I decided to have a think to see if I could come up for an original idea for a gift. On the tables during the meal on the wedding day there were little boxes wrapped up like presents with ribbon decorated with the bride and grooms name and the date of their marriage. In England I think these are for good luck and contain sugared almonds (I think!). Luckily I kept hold of mine from the day so dug out the old light box and went to work.
The final shot that I produced was printed then framed in dark. I was pleased with the result and the happy couple were also very happy with the gift.
Wednesday, 8 August 2007
Si & Rach's Wedding
After going away to Barcelona for a great weekend on my good friend Si's stag do...
and seeing a bit of culture...
many pubs...
some other stags...
and even more pubs...
Last weekend saw Si and Rach get married. A fantastic weekend was had by all and I'd like to think that if I ever tied the knot then my wedding would be as good and go so well and that I'd be as happy as these two excellent friends of mine.
and seeing a bit of culture...
many pubs...
some other stags...
and even more pubs...
Last weekend saw Si and Rach get married. A fantastic weekend was had by all and I'd like to think that if I ever tied the knot then my wedding would be as good and go so well and that I'd be as happy as these two excellent friends of mine.
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