Saturday's images

Here are some of the images shot yesterday. Considering I had 2 hours to shoot images at four different venues I was pleased with the results. These are images from the two Junior matches I shot. (The others were an Amateur game and a team photo).

Back to norm

After all the wedding posts I feel I shoot put up images of what you would expect to see on this blog. Here are somefrom the last two weeks.

Getting a chance to shoot this on someone's wedding day - cool!

When I sat down with Lindsay and Bruce before their wedding it became apparent Bruce was a big golf fan. I mentioned taking some golf related pictures on his wedding day. He was really up for the idea and he and some other members of the wedding braved freezing tempertures walked onto the pitch dark golf course and allowed me to try out a few images for 5 minutes. These were the best of the bunch, not perfect but we certainly had fun trying.

Shot with two bare Vivitars laid on the ground in front of them. F4.5 , 1/60th, ISO800 for both.

Wedding - Lindsay and Bruce

So as mentioned in the last post, I shot my first wedding for over 10 years on Saturday. Assisted by Jenny, I had a great time and Lindsay and Bruce were a joy to work with. We got lucky with the weather despite the face it was freezing ther was great light to use. I used a couple of remote speedlight/umbrella set up to mainly use as fill. These are some of the images I am currently working through.

Fun in the rain

I shoot my first wedding in over ten years this Saturday. Although I have shot plenty weddings in the past I am excited with the possibilities this weekend will offer. Times change and hopefully I am now a better photographer, the stuffy images of the past will make way for a more relaxed and spontaneous style.

The couple getting married are Lindsay and Bruce. A great couple and we spent about ten minutes on Sunday morning , beaten back by the wind and rain, getting some pre-wedding images. These were shot handholding a flashgun in one hand and a 40D with 70-200 in the other. I would have liked to use a stand and brolly etc but I don't think they would have survived in the wind.

Scotland 'A' v Australia 'A' (21/11/06)

This is a test. After reading Craig Mitchelldyer's blog entry I decided to try embedding a slideshow gallery. I have tried this before with mixed results, but this was before Photoshelter brought out some new updates. This is a 'A' international game from two years ago but I will probably use this as a way to display future press images as you can click and buy straight from the slideshow. Cool!

Hey I'm getting this flash thing

Here are some images from a sponsored head shave(partial) and leg wax held in a crowded bar at the weekend. All images were taken for the paper. The images themselves are nothing startling but I was pleased with the way I controlled flash. In the images I was positioned no more than 1-2 feet from the subjects in the photo but still managed to control how light from a mounted flashgun was spread. The answer was a A5 piece of white card velcro mounted to bounce the flash against. I think it produced quite a pleasing result in a situation I might normally have struggled to light evenly.