Wedding Photographer, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Wedding Photography West Yorkshire Discount Offers
Aug 28th
Wedding Photography Discounts Available
We are currently offering wedding clients and potential wedding clients discount wedding photography offers on a first come first served basis, these will only be available now and then. To keep notified of any wedding offers you can either follow my twitter stream (@petebarnesphoto) of our facebook profile (Pete Barnes Wedding Photographer) If you know anyone in the West Yorkshire region who has just got engaged and into social networking and want to be notified of any discounts, let them know!
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Wedding Photography at Ashton Memorial, Lancaster
Jun 2nd
Our international wedding photography season continued with Heidrun and Tim at the Ashton Memorial in Williamson Park, in Lancaster. The venue was fantastic with plenty of sweeping stone staircases. Unfortunately the weather left a lot to be desired. The couple took it in their stride and enjoyed the day regardless. One of the friendliest couples we’ve worked with, they treated us to a beautiful meal and we had a great time photographing their wedding day. As usual, we are putting up a gallery for friends and family but here are some of our favourites – we’ve picked some colour ones for a change but the couple always receives both versions on their DVD. Gallery here (password groom’s surname)
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Stunning Architecture at Ashton Memorial
Sitting down for a break
Under the bridge
Wedding Photography at Cannon Hall, West Yorkshire
Jun 2nd
We had the pleasure of photographing Maria and Andy’s wedding on a glorious day at Cannon Hall. As the bride was Russian there were some interesting traditions that were a bit of a break from the norm. Cannon Hall, near Barnsley, is a great location and wedding photographers are spoilt for choice. The couple were very relaxed and open to hopping over the odd fence for a good photograph! Here are a couple of our favourites, but a bigger gallery is available to the couple, family and friends here, (password groom’s surname)
Eskimo Kiss
The Bride looking beautiful
Happy days
Cannon Hall in the background
Sarah and Chris’ Wedding at Gomersal Park Hotel, West Yorkshire
May 27th
We had a great time last Saturday covering the wedding of Sarah and Chris. The weather was absolutely fantastic and everyone was really relaxed and cheerful, not too many camera dodgers! The actual ceremony took place at Mirfield Parish Church with the reception at Gomersal Park Hotel. The happy couple soon got used to wedding photographs from all angles and looked great all day. There is a wedding photography gallery here for family and friends to look at (the password is the grooms surname). There are some colour versions and some black and whites but clients always receive both versions. I have put up a few of my favorites here too. A big thanks to Sarah & Chris for asking us to cover their wedding day and I hope they are enjoying Vegas!
Last minute jitters!
A Moment alone
The Happy Couple
Bride looking Radiant
A Great Wedding Photography Book
Mar 21st
Captured by the Light
In the interest of continuous improvement of my wedding photography skills I thought I would do a quick post about a wedding photography book I am reading at the moment, it has plenty of great ideas and solutions to tricky lighting issues that often arise when photographing a wedding (I dare say there is a lot more, I’m only 50 pages in!). The book is called Captured By The Light and it’s by David Ziser. He has a great site that I’ve been following for a while now called Digital Protalk. It has loads of information for wedding photographers or just photographers in general from gear reviews and video tutorials to business advice for wedding professionals. It’s definitely worth a look and if you like it I would really recommend the book
No photos today I’m afraid, although it looks like spring has finally arrived, I’m looking forward to getting out and doing some landscapes soon!
Brides Skin Retouching and Smoothing in Wedding Photography
Feb 3rd
I have to start out by saying wedding make-up artists do a fantastic job and this is in no way a comment on their skills, all of the brides I have had the pleasure of photographing really have looked amazing without exception. A bride should look her very best on her biggest day and leave it to the wedding photographers to capture the details for them to remember. There are always 2 photographers covering all the angles, in photography terms. We take photos from large wide, 150+ people group shots to the slightest change in emotion on the happy couples faces and for this we sometimes need to be zoomed in, way in!
Wakefield Wedding Photographer before Skin Retouching
Wakefield Wedding Photographer after Skin Retouching
We all know about the levels of photoshop retouching super models go through even after hours of make-up procedure. Unfortunately in the high definition age we live in, cameras pick up every detail, good or bad and my job as a wedding photographer is to highlight the good bits and mask or hide the bad. I am of the opinion a bride wants to look her very best on her wedding day and as photographers, we are employed to use our wedding photography skills to produce the very best images. This is why I do a certain amount of retouching of the brides skin in photoshop. It is also worth noting that it is easy to go overboard with skin smoothing and if done incorrectly you will end up with a plastic, botox-to-hell, psycho-doll-type look, and nobody wants that.
This is a typical example of the type of skin retouching I do, not too much but enough to really make the skin glow.
Formal Wedding Photography Photoshop Alteration
Feb 2nd
I get asked about my editing process by wedding clients quite a lot and how much photoshop work do I do with my images. I do quite a lot of skin smoothing, which I plan on posting about soon, but there are times when a client sends me back an image and asks if I could just change this or that. As I give unedited (throw away) shots to the clients as well as the ones I choose to process, I often say if there are images in the throw away pile that you would like something done to, just let me know and I’ll see what I can do. I must stress this doesn’t happen very often as clients are happy with the edits.
After Photoshop Alteration - Wakefield Wedding Photographer - Gents to the right have been moved in
Before Photoshop Alteration - Wakefield Wedding Photographer
With formal wedding photographs I tend to get through them quite quickly so I can concentrate on the informal side which, in my opinion is where the great images are to be captured. I also tell the bride and groom if they want a quick shot with uncle bob (or any other guests for that matter) just shout and I’ll get some no problem. In this shot the grand parents had missed the formal shots so we grabbed some just before the wedding breakfast. This version ended up in the throw away pile but the groom liked it but asked if I could possibly move his grandad to be closer in. It isn’t a very complicated procedure in photoshop and he, or his grandparents, were happy with the result.
Great bride, Great location
Aug 6th
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.
Marketing Material
Jul 1st
Hey folks, not posted for a while, it’s pretty quiet at the moment although I have been accepted to an exhibition in Skipton called art in the pen. It’s an art exhibition in a livestock pen, I think it’s pretty trendy, it was started in 2006 and has been growing pretty steadily, you never know it could be my cavern club! It’s here if you want a look. I’ve done a bit of business type stuff recently that I don’t usually go into on my blog but I am doing today as I haven’t been out with the camera recently. These are the layout for my trifolios, they are cards that fold in on themselves so they can stand freely and just give people a chance to see some of my work. They are easy enough to design if you know your way around photoshop. I get them printed by my pro lab called Loxley Colour. Just got to drop them in at some local shops now.
