Jennifer Brisk - Classical Singer

I meet loads of people at wedding fayres, they are always a great place for networking and this Sunday was no exception.  At the Your Gorgeous Wedding Show in Dover we were entertained by a captivating classical wedding singer, Jennifer Brisk.  I was delighted on Monday when Jennifer called me and told me that she needed a publicity picture at very short notice.  Jennifer has been chosen to sing at the prestigious International Green Awards at London’s Natural History Museum on 24th November 2011.  She urgently needed a picture for the cover of the event brochure.  In a very limited time we managed to get a selection of images capturing the green theme – these are a some of the images that have already gone to the publishers.

If you are looking for Soloist for your wedding or event please give Jennifer a call.

If you are looking for publicity pictures yourself then please give me a call

1950's Fashion

 

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Time for a change

I have neglected this blog for a while but now the wedding season is over I am going to try to add more content. At the moment I am working on a new portfolio website - I want people to see that we do much more than just weddings.

Take a look - tell me what you think??

Alan Langley - Photographer

Hannnah - Abandoned Farm

Lara - A 60's shoot

Poison Ivy Photoshoot

 

And for the Photography geeks - have a look at the ivy shaped catchlight....

Court Stairs Manor - Bridal Fashion

Kent Wedding Photographers

Enefelde Cottage

Birds

A couple of bird pics - one taken in my Dad's garden the other on our Sunday afternoon walk.

Fashion Photography

My first experience of fashion photography - see our business site for more info.

Lightroom File Handling Workflow

A few people have asked about our basic file handling workflow so I thought I would post it on here.

To simplify file handling and allow folders to be backed up easily I prefer to create a new Lightroom catalog for each project. The benefit is that it creates a standalone back up which can be stored externally and accessed from any machine. I am not saying this is the right method or best practice but this is what I do.

1. Create Folder in Pictures Directoy named YYYY-MM-DD with description ie: 2010-10-18 Sharon and Brian Wedding.
2. In new folder Create new Folder - RAW
3. Manually copy files from Memory card to RAW folder.
4. Drag main folder to Places in Finder sidebar. (This step makes things easier in Lightroom)
5. Lightroom - Create new Catalog (File/New Catalog)
6. Select location for Catalog as the new folder ie: 2010-10-18 Sharon and Brian Wedding.
7. Import RAW files from newly created folder into light room.
8. Process files in Lightroom
9. Export JPGs into specific folders within master folder. eg. Blog Exports, Facebook, Hi-res, Lo-res
10. Copy new Folder to external drive and initiate back-up to secondary drive. (I use Sync LE)

Strike at Dover Christ Church Academy

Pupils at our local School have gone on strike. Over the summer break the school formerly Archers Court became the Dover Christ Church Academy. Along with the new name came a number of other changes including an unpopular split lunchtime. The pupils have been actively complaining and petitioning to resolve the situation but today decided to go on strike. My picture shows the head Teacher with much on his mind.

tcupcakes

A few pictures from my vist to Tcupcakes - read the full post on my business page.

Max

Max is staying with us for a few days while his owners are away so I thought we'd better take some pictures. The best picture of the day would have been Max walking in after his 'paddle' in the pond but sadly the camera was not ready.

UPDATE - He found the pond again

David and Isla's Wedding

I thought I would post a couple of detail shots from a recent wedding. You can view more pictures on my business blog.

The first picture features the bride's bouquet - we lit this using a gridded flash held up high camera right. We tried to create the illusion of sunlight coming in from a window.

The second image is a shot of the rings perched on the grooms buttonhole. To light this we simply bounced the flash off my white shirt.

It is nice, even at a fast paced Wedding to play with your off camera lighting.

Joe McNally

On Friday we were lucky enough to attend the Joe McNally lighting workshop arranged by Kelby training at the Islington Design Centre.

You can see his blog entry about it here:

http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/2010/07/24/thank-you-london/

Joe is a real natural in front of an audience and it was an informative, entertaining day. I still remain unconvinced about CLS! If you get the chance to attend one of his workshops I would definitely recommend it – we had a great time!!

Carly and Ashley

As always more pictures on my business blog - Dover Design Photography, Kent Wedding Photographers

Jordan

Jordan in her prom dress - more pictures on my business blog.

Peter and Ola

Holly and Simeon

A few pictures from last nights shoot with Holly and Simeon. For the camera geeks among you these were taken with the Nikon D50 with kit lens. We used two off camera flashes one through a shoot through umbrella and one bare.




There are a few more pictures on my business blog