Here's another landscape from yesterday's trip to Upper Glendevon Reservoir. Last time I visited this reservoir the water level was 40 feet below me. Yesterday the reservoir had almost claimed this tree!
Two's Company
The cloud formations over Perthshire at mid-day today were amazing - like ripples in the sand. However when I went out for a couple of hours photography at 3pm - they'd melted away.
I visited Frandy Fishery on the lower Glendevon Reservoir to photograph the fishing boats before they're put away for winter. I also visited the upper Glendevon Reservoir - more of this tomorrow.
Reach for the sky
Today I popped out for a few hours. The skies looked threatening with rain clouds so I hoped for some moody black and white images.This tree was spotted by myself late last year so I went to have another look. I got wet in the process but that's the joys of landscape photography.
To reach it I had to cross a burn in spate. As I went to leap across the burn I placed my right boot on a boggy spot only for it to disappear 3 feet into water, filling my wellington boot and soaking my trouser leg. I took a few photographs before retreating back to my car to drive home and change.
Rachel
It's competition time again. Here is a photograph I've been granted permission to enter into this months SWPP print competition. Her mum has a 12x12 fine art print of this photograph.
Rachel is very camera shy and this was a grab shot taken at my daughters birthday party. She was in a pink wendy house at the time, so I converted to black and white to lose the pink cast.
Rumbling Bridge
On Sunday I met up with a friend at Rumbling Bridge Gorge. There's some lovely autumn colour at the moment but recent heavy rain has stripped most of the trees. Here is one of my favourite images from Sunday. The leaf wasn't placed by me - I actually found it like so.
Pasha and Craig
On Saturday I photographed a reception for a local studio. Pasha and Craig married in Mexico with their closest friends and family.
Upon their return they had a big shin dig in the Parkway Hotel in Kirkcaldy. The rest of the photographs can be viewed here
Stepping Stones
The last photograph I took on Sunday - looking towards Inchkeith Island on the Firth of Forth.
Details about this island can be found here - sounds like a fascinating if somewhat dangerous place to visit.
Dysart
Today I visited a hotel in Kirkcaldy as I am photographing a wedding reception there next Saturday. Afterwards I visited Dysart.
The light was very flat but for a few minutes the sun broke through colouring the clouds a subtle pink.
The Decisive Moment
Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the greatest photographers of all time, coined the phrase "decisive moment" in photography, referring to the split second of timing that helped transform a picture into an iconic image.
A few decisive moments from Emma's and Stuart's wedding are shown below. The first photograph is the moment Emma tells her Mum that's she's just got married, as their marriage was a secret. The second photograph is Emma's daughter hugging her husband. The last photograph isn't a decisive moment but Emma in her fabulous gown.
I have almost completed processing the photographs - they will all be on-line by tomorrow evening. I am really really happy with the wedding photographs espeially since we couldn't go outside due to the monsoon conditions.
Devil's in the detail
Yesterday I photographed a "secret wedding" on Loch Tay - a bride, groom and five guests. Unfortunately the weather was horrendous - poured all afternoon. I'd anticipated this so concentrated on little details since we couldn't go outside.
The beautiful bride Emma had a thing about shoes so I had to get a dramatic shot of her wedding shoes. I also wanted a dramatic shot of their wedding rings. The rest of the images will be on-line this Sunday evening
Loch Glow
Today was another grey day with heavy overcast skies. I was hoping for a break in the weather but it never came. The weather suited moody black and white photography so here is a photograph taken today at Loch Glow.
Wedding Photojournalism
Today I met a lovely couple - Emma and Stuart - who are getting married on a pier next Wednesday. We discussed how they'd like to be photographed and they were keen on unposed photographs.
This style of wedding photography is sometimes called reportage or photojournalism (PJ) and is actually my preferred style of photography. It also suits black and white imagery.
Below are some examples of photojournalism taken earlier this year of Kirsty and Chris - in each case there is no direction whatsoever from the photographer and hence they all look natural.
The Old Pier
All going well I am photographing a wedding ceremony on a pier on a Loch next week. Here is a prize winning image of mine taken at dawn last September on Loch Leven.
This image took third prize in a competition sponsored by Lee Filters manufacturers of the worlds best filters, which I now use for most of my landscape work.
My Favourite Photograph
A bride to be was complimenting me on my children portraits this evening. I said my first wedding booking was due to this photograph of my daughter when she was 2 years old.
This photograph is framed and hung in my dining room along with two individual portraits of my sons. All of them are black and white prints, my favoured media for portraits.
His Master's Voice
While I sort out my landscape portfolio here is one of my favourites. I love landscapes which contain a pier.
Here a spaniel called Duffy is listening to his master calling him from the opposite side of the pond.
Kelly and Martin
Kelly and Martin's wedding photographs are now on-line. A few of my favourite dancing photographs are shown below.
I particularly enjoyed Kelly and Martin's wedding as I was fed and invited to the evening celebrations. After an hour of dancing I put the cameras away and did some dancing of my own!
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Leila and Ross
One of the delights of being a wedding photographer is that no two weddings are alike. This year I have photographed weddings in churches, castles, hotels and gardens. I've photographed a pagan wedding, whilst my favourite this year has to be a Persian wedding ceremony.
Leila and Ross married at the Royal College of Physicians. They live in Manchester and Leila did an amazing job organising her wedding via e-mail with a couple of visits to Edinburgh. I was honoured to be chosen to photograph Leila's wedding as I'd never photographed such a ceremony. I did offer to try and find Leila a photographer with experience of Persian ceremonies but she liked my personality and enthusiasm, so booked me after we met at the Royal College.
An interesting aspect of this wedding was it all took place indoors. I had planned to do some group shots on the steps of the venue but Scottish Gas had dug up the street and plonked a huge road sign outside the venue. As it took place indoors I used very fast film to capture the ambience and bounce flash to add fill. Where there were candles I tried to minimise flash and use natural light to capture the mood of the venue. Some of the feedback from this wedding was how I had captured the ambience and wonderful interiors of this spectacular venue. Some of the brides favourites are shown below.
Knowing when to use flash and how to diffuse flash such that photographs do not appear to have been flashed is very important to me. Personally I dislike photographs were the subject has been blasted with flash and the background is all black. Recently I have been asked if I will give a presentation on flash photography for the local camera club. Hence you can meet me and hear about the flash techniques I use at the Kinross Church Centre next January. This will include practical demonstrations including the use of wireless flash.
Leila and Ross have just received all their album prints plus digital negatives of their wedding. I'd like wish them well and hope to photograph another wedding ceremony as colourful and dramatic as theirs in the future.
Historic Scotland
Tonight I hope to upload all the wedding images from Kelly and Martin's wedding. I have now processed all the images bar the dancing photographs. There will be approximately 350 photographs.
In the meantime here are two photographs of the Kelly and Martin taken in Huntingtower Castle. There are 14 castles used as wedding venues by Historic Scotland. To see them all please click here.
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