Wasing Park wedding photography – Austen and Julie
Saturday, May 1st, 2010
I love a good wedding. I love a good black and white. For fear of accusation that I may be repeating myself, the simplicity of this medium and the attention drawn to composition and light when reproducing mono-chromatically is what makes the digital darkroom so exciting. In binary land, the process is thus. You usually start out with a full colour image, drag it through a series of black and white conversion techniques, digitally dodge and burn, fade and pop, then stand back and observe, perhaps even self congratulate – if only for a moment. For the print purists, it may not be the develop, fix and stop method where your clothes smell vinegary for a week after, but for me, the digitised darkroom excites me none the less. I expect to return a fairly decent count of colour images from weddings I shoot, but from Austen and Julie’s Wasing Park wedding, I’d just like to share some of the monochromes.
Wasing Park wedding photography – Neil and Mel
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Here’s an accessory detail you’re unlikely to read about in bridal magazines. Mel’s hen party had included life drawing classes. Wedding day table name cards may not have seemed the obvious initial opportunity to display their collective artistic efforts, but it did serve as a great ice breaker at the tables.
Wasing Park wedding photography
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010Forgive the indulgence of a monochrome set bar a couple. A handful of images from one of my more recent Wasing Park weddings from Catherine and Liam’s fabulous big day. I’m a huge fan of black and whites and ‘large’ real moments, as is reasonably transparent from many of my blog entries. Filling the frame with emotion is an important facet of my work. So whilst uploading these images, I am reminded of a client meeting I had tail end of last week, where discovering I was in the ‘pitching pot’ against a number of photographers, I was asked if I did ‘enhancements?’ I assumed at first this to be blemish removal, but no. Ostensibly the meaning proffered by my oppo was somewhat different. “The other company can make an overcast rainy day, bright and sunny,” it was proudly exclaimed. I appreciated what they were trying to achieve, but for me, I declined the opportunity. Yes I tint pictures, and I’m appreciative of other photographers’ highly stylised imagery, but to a point. It’s subjective, of course it is, and for me, the day is as the day is. Embrace the weather. Embrace the emotions. Embrace reality. We work in a digital age and I think it’s true that the romance of pulling a print from the fix under a red light will never be replaced by slotting a card into a downloader, but by-the-by, I still receive a thrill when a larger LCD reveals the emotion I believed I captured at the time of depressing the shutter on the day, minus requirement for an Arora Borealis.
Wasing Park wedding photography
Friday, March 5th, 2010If Red Bull gives you wings, then getting wed must surely be the fuel of SRBs? At our studio, out back, we have half a mile of undulating grass track that serves as a runway for visiting Cessnas and tail draggers. And so one week prior to their Wasing Park wedding, Andrew and Crystal throttled down for a grand entrance preceding their prewed shoot. A little plane spotting at the end of this post with additional points scored for telling me type and range. But first, some images from the day, less Crystal should chastise me for showing propeller head tendencies.
Wedding photography - Breathe Pictures - Wasing Park
