Monday, 5 December 2011

Exercise: A narrative picture essay

For this exercise I have used the pictures I took from wedding that I was the main photographer for. I will be using a contact sheet to show the pictures but have put short captions on each one to describe what it shows. It was a little unorthodox as the bride and groom got ready in the same house together and travelled in the limo down to the Shepherd Neame Brewery.
After months of planning, actually two years of planning, the day came together beautifully. I did a recce of the place a few weeks before the ceremony to scout for locations for shooting. This more than paid to do due to the fluidity of the day. When I was doing the recce i took numerous photos of the place so I could work out what backdrops would work well for the group shots.

Putting on the war paint 

All done and ready to go 

A rather happy groom all spruced up and ready to join his future wife 

Entering the car (hummer limousine) on the way to the brewery

Heres to us,on the way to the brewery

Entering the brewery and onto the brew house

Thankfully they both said yes and are pictured here  looking rather happy

Signing the register, making it official

Its a very long day for the bride and all she wanted to do was have a cup of tea

The first of many group photos

The speech, very well done considering how nervous he was

The cake toppers, very good likeness I think

Cutting the cake, or perhaps not, does this bode well for their life together

Now he is married, he starting off how he means to go on

The first and also final dance, dont they look happy

Sunday, 4 September 2011

Exercise - Contrast and Shadow Fill














Exercise - The Lighting Angle











Lighting the egg from many different angles my favourite one has to be the sixth one as there is an even light across the whole egg allowing all the details to be exposed correctly.

Exercise - Softening the Light


The first shot is a bare lamp over the egg, giving a very harsh light. As soon as I put the diffuser on the egg you could see most of the detail.

Monday, 2 May 2011

Exercise - Variety with a low sun

Frontal Lighting

Edge Lighting

Back Lighting

Side Lighting

Exercise - Judging Colour Temperature 1



Above are the three photos I used for this exercise. The top two were done in midday sun, one in shade one not. The final one was done at sunset. The difference is quite striking.

Exercise - Judging Colour Temperature 2

f/ 10.0, 1/5, ISO 3200 - Sunlight Setting

f/ 10.0, 1/8. ISO 3200 - Shady Setting

f/ 10.0, 1/15. ISO 3200 - Auto Setting

I think out of these three I prefer the Shady Setting as there is more colour in the picture and its warmer.