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Cantley House Hotel wedding photography
By nealejames | June 21, 2009
Pastures new this weekend as I photographed at Cantley for the first time. Well done Steve, well done Sian, fab day, and one of the most original evening mobile studios yet! I know that by the time you get a chance to read this, you’ll more than likely have returned to your hotel for some early evening R&R following a day supping island cocktails on a beach under a sun umbrella in Hawaii. As much as it’s a great honour to photograph at familiar venues where as a company we’re a preferred photographic supplier, it’s equally good to tackle new locations. If you’ve read the blog or taken in the kind of thing that inspires me as a wedding photographer through my images on the main site, you’ll know that I much prefer available light to napalming a scene with heavy flash work. When I started photographing weddings, a strobe would be attached to the camera pretty much all day. I’ve become subtle in ‘me old age…’ (cue comments on how kids have no respect these days and how in my day you had to climb up inside chimneys for pocket money.) And so, it was a delight to see a venue with some large windows to throw shafts of light on to various scenes. I look forward to going back one day.
Oh, and as for the mobile studio, we moved outside for the first time in a long time, and invited guests to embrace an Hawaiian theme. What is it about grown men with grass skirts and inflatable sharks? Loved it!
Topics: Blog journal, Wedding day tips, Wedding general, Wedding photographer Cantley House | 3 Comments »
July 27th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
We can’t say thank you enough to Neale for the amazing photos he took of us on our wedding day (and the pre wedding shoot). We really wanted quite a laid back and informal wedding and Neale easily adapted to this and gave us so many ideas and suggestions through his photography on how we could achieve this. Culminating actually with the hilarious Hawaiian themed mobile studio shots – I never knew our relatives had it in them! So many of our guests said how they had never come across a wedding photographer like Neale before – he actually made the photography part of the wedding fun and a highlight! I could go on forever, but I won’t. Just, BIG thanks.
July 28th, 2009 at 6:35 am
LOVE the shark man! Now THAT one wouldn’t look out of place at the Photographer’s Gallery.
July 28th, 2009 at 6:41 am
Thanks Stevo. That was one of the only evening studios I’ve shot outside. It was kind of forced upon us as the venue only had a small coridoor to put me in. That in mind I shot the whole thing against a wall covered in Ivy and it worked just brilliantly. Some of my favourite shots ever came from that one, and I must must must must must put some up online in our web gallery. Thanks also Sian and Steve (I am assuming a different Steve to Stevo? – there must be more than one in the world?) What a fab day you two, full of laughs. You’re right about your relatives. Give an adult a grass skirt, and anything can happen.