Showing posts with label St Michael's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St Michael's. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 July 2008

Wedding and Trophy

Two week ago I received a lovely text. It read, "Hi Jim i am gettin married on the 19th july just wondered if u was available? Thanks eve" Eve turned out to be a lovely young lady who wanted me to photograph her wedding. Having met her and her husband to be, Gary, it was agreed that I would do the deed.

On Saturday 19th at 4:00 pm I turned up at St Michael's Church, Bramcote. It turned out to be a dry, sunny, but windy day. Photos were taken there and then at the 'Chequers' inn, Stapleford. Since then I have done the light-room work and created the proofs book. I have three systems available to produce the proofs book. One prints the data, but randomises the pictures. Another keeps them in order, but does not print the data. The one that I use prints the pictures and the data, but creates a right hand margin which is not helpful in book production. Does anyone know of software which will do exactly what I want; efficiently?
Eve and Gary - Married

On Monday, in the thick of wedding work along came another assignment. This came through my most regular customer, Francis. He needed a greeting card with a photograph of the trophy given by the 'Allotment Holder's Association' to the winning school gardeners. This was a chance to us my off camera flash and reflector. I set up my mini studio and did the shoot. The result was acceptable.

Saturday, 19 July 2008

Pre-wedding Research

On Thursday Joni and I went out to St Michael's Church, Bramcote to check the wedding shoot location. We were there at the approximate hour of the wedding on Saturday. It was a drizzly day, but dry when we turned up. We did our usual walk around the church - checking the possibilities. I used my Nikon D50 for the test shots. This was a useful trip - note the clutter to the right of the entrance. I thought that the steps might make for a different shot. However, they could look too railway stationey

Main entrance

Bride on the steps?

The new Nikon D80 did not arrive until Friday lunch time. It has a lot of refinements to the D50 with more megapixels. Fortunately, it is not too disimilar to the D50 and after some practice shots I am confident that I shall be able to use it at the wedding on Saturday. I will be packing the D50 just in case.

Joni using D80 and off the camera flash

Available light