Great bride, Great location

Wedding Photography by Pete Barnes at the Crab and Lobster, North Yorkshire

Wedding Photography by Pete Barnes at the Crab and Lobster, North Yorkshire

This is my first post using my new blog, probably not much of a highlight you readers but it’s a big deal for me so I thought I’d mention it. WordPress is just so much better than blogger, surprising really with google behind blogger, I’m sure they’ll improve it.

Anyway on to the main topic. This was a recent wedding at a place called the Crab and Lobster in Asenby (near Thirsk) North Yorkshire. The grounds were fantastic for wedding photography with plenty of features to use for visual interest. There are loads of curvy paths for leading lines, worn statues and flower covered arches, I was quite spoilt for choice. I find all the brides look pretty stunning on their wedding day but this one was especially photogenic, some just have a natural ability to strike a pose, so to speak. The sun came out now and then but there was a bit of cloud cover which made the light a lot softer so we didn’t have any harsh, sharp shadows. All in all the conditions were very good, excellent considering it had been raining all week before the wedding.

I have processed these shots first in lightroom, where I do the majority of the work. After sorting the keepers from the rejects the main steps are any cropping and colour temperature adjustments and any exposure shifts. I then take some shots into photoshop for any additional editing or to run some actions (black and whites, glowers etc) Although lightroom does do a very good mono conversion I find Photoshops a little better.

These two shots were taken at f2.8, ISO400 at around 100mm for between 1/500 and 1/1000.