Another compilation post today, this time regarding Black and White wedding photography. Firstly let me start by saying I love black and white photography, not just wedding photography but various other genres, for example landscape photography. There are many Black and White wedding photographers out there which I drew a lot of inspiration when I was learning the basics, I won’t go into them all here as you might end up booking them for your wedding! I love the timeless quality the black and whites have, not old fashioned as such just something that will never look dated, or not as dated as some of the sin city inspired colour isolation wedding photos out there. I also enjoy the vintage style photos which are popular at the moment as they compliment the rusticy , DIY, type weddings which many couples are going for at the moment but I always come back to the black and whites and generally my favourite shot of a wedding will be in black and white (or monochrome).
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We recently provided the wedding photography for Anna and Fraser with the ceremony at St Peter’s in Birstall and the reception at Blacker Hall Farm, which fortunately was only about a mile from where I live, which was handy. Anna and Fraser were friends of a couple of other wedding clients we had photographed a few months ago, so it’s always nice to get a bit of word of mouth advertising. Both the bride and groom were really relaxed, the wedding was super informal “the plan is… there is no plan’ and everyone looked to be enjoying themselves.
Read MoreWe recently provided wedding photography for the beautiful wedding of Anna Marie and Simon. I had been looking forward to this one for quite some time as I had met the couple a few times and they really were …
Read MoreWe recently covered the wedding of Stacey and Lee at the beautiful St John’s Church in Mirfield. I actually grew up in Mirfield and used to see this church quite a lot but this was our first wedding there. Stacey looked fantastic (as brides tend to do) we arrived at her parents house with plenty of time to do all the bridal prep shots and get a few photos of the girls in the garden. The bridesmaids all did a great job and Stacey’s daughter Ashlyn was great as a flower girl (and oddly as a glasses model). Lee was at the church welcoming guests, seemed very calm and everyone was eager for the arrival of the bride.
Read MoreWe had a fantastic time last week at Holdsworth House near Halifax doing the wedding photography for the beautiful wedding of Donna & Andrew. They really were a lovely couple and fantastic to photograph. The wedding was quite an intimate affair with just close friends and family, we really love doing these as we end up feeling like some of the guests and this was no exception. There were 4 generations attending the wedding, which is always good to see, a couple of the nephews had a good go at stealing the limelight, charging about on the fantastic lawns at Holdsworth House.
Read MoreI was out last night on a glorious Yorkshire evening doing a bit of landscape photography. I headed for a field near Woolley, a little village not too far away and spotted this fantastic footpath cutting straight through a field of golden wheat. I had a few hiccups on this outing, my new polariser doesn’t have a front thread so I couldn’t attach my graduated filters, a serious no no for the shot I had planned so I kept my new CPL in the bag. I set up and was pretty happy with my original test shot in terms of composition so I tweaked it a little and put my grads on and it was just a case of waiting for the sun to light up the field. I had envisioned a moody black and white version using a slow shutter to get the sweeping clouds and a little movement in the wheat. However when I got them back I was happy with the standard colour version but I have decided to post both versions and you can make your mind up as to which you prefer. In terms of exposure, the colour version was taken at 16mm, f/16, ISO100, 1/13. I had a hard edged 3 stop ND grad to balance the bright sky and the land.
Read MoreI’m going to do a landscape photography post today as I’ve had a few wedding photography posts recently and feel like a change. I was recently asked to supply some large Black and White landscape photos to a client in London. I do have a landscape photography gallery on my site but not all of my work ends up there so I thought I would have a look through some of the archives at some of my favourite landscapes and see if I could do some black and white conversions, and while I was at it I thought I’d do a blog post about it as well!
The three shots I’m putting up aren’t new unfortunately but the Derwent Pier one is a black and white take on the colour version in the landscape gallery, so I’ll start with that one.
I usually do a wedding post with a few of my favourite shots from each wedding before I get the CD sent out, a bit of a sneak peak if you will and this wedding will be no different, but I’ll do that post for this particular wedding tomorrow. This is more a photographers post than a wedding post. The reason for this post was just to show three ‘dress’ type shots that I quite like doing. This was a fantastic wedding we did at the start of the month at the beautiful Samling near Windermere in the Lake District (details will be up tomorrow). One of my earlier photos, which incidentally won me a small award
featured a bride going up some steps, it was a spur of the moment type shot and I was trying to recreate here. I’ve processed it in a similar fashion with a warm black and white conversion. I really liked how the light was hitting the dress and the brides shoulders.
I spent yesterday walking (and driving) round vast swathes of the Yorkshire Dales. I went with my long suffering photography apprentice which is always amusing, especially his impromptu diving contests. On the last outing he scored a solid 9 all …
Read MoreI was out in the woods with my niece and nephew at the weekend trying out the new lens (Canon’s 85mm f/1.2L). Arguably canon’s best portrait lens. As I have quite a few winter weddings coming up I was after a really good low light lens so decided to go for this. …
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