Michelle & Rob :: Wedding Story
What a wonderful day at Donnington Grove County Club on Saturday. Michelle & Rob’s ceremony was held at Douai Abbey in Woolhampton, before heading back to Donnington Grove for the reception,
Luckily the weather just about held out to allow plenty of photos outside.
Working with Spacebar Productions throughout the day we provided videography & entertainment alongside the photography, we also provided a PhotoBooth and props for use during the evening.
Here is their Wedding Story Highlights, all the images including evening and photobooth images can be found HERE
All photos including the photobooth and evening images can be found here
I wish Michelle & Rob all the happiness in the world.
Elaine & Peter
Here are a few images from todays impromptu shoot with Elaine & Peter and some baby coots!
Douai Abbey :: Panorama
Whilst you wait for Michelle & Rob’s full wedding story, here’s a quick pano that I managed to capture yesterday in Douai Abbey.
The image is made up from 32 photos all shot at 24mm (managed to get them snapped off whilst the congregation were singing).
Michelle & Rob :: Sneak Peek
Whilst im busy working through all the images from Michelle & Robs wonderful day at Donnington Grove County Club & Douai Abbey, here is a sneak peak of some of the images from the day.
Evening slideshow courtesy of Josh from Spacebar Productions
Memory Card Management
Carrying over 168GB of memory cards, the last thing I want to be thinking about during a wedding is which cards are used/empty, which cards are paired with which, and are they securely stored!
So here’s how I look manage my memory on the day…
Firstly I shoot exclusively with Canon 1D’s which are setup to shoot to both a Compact Flash & Secure Digital card simultaneously (this gives me a little resiliency incase one card should fail) , therefore each Compact Flash card is paired up with a Secure Digital card.
I use exclusively SanDisk Compact Flash cards and a variety of SD cards. I use 8GB cards in the 1D IV and 4GB cards in the 1D II’s, these sizes work for me and I get around 300-400 images per pair. I prefer these sizes over larger capacity cards as I’m not “putting all my eggs in the same basket”. Although sometimes when I’m downloading all the cards I wish I could just get a 12 card CF card reader, loads all the cards in and press go!
Each card is labelled with both my contact details (incase I drop/lose a card) and also a unique number which identifies the pair. The first two characters denote the type of card, the first digit the capacity and the remaining digits the pair number.
They are then safely stowed in pairs in a LowePro sliplock memory card case which has 12 little compartments allowing me to hold 12 pairs (24 cards). All cards are stored front facing (dark label showing – denoting empty cards)
When a card pair is used, it goes back into the case with the rear label showing (reversed), this allows me to quickly identify which cards are empty and which have already been used.
On the day this case remains clipped to my LowePro S&F utility belt and doesnt leave my sight, until all cards have been fully downloaded and backed up. My first backup of the day is during the wedding breakfast (whilst im preparing the evening slideshow), and involves downloading all cards to both my macbook and 2 external WD 750GB hard drives (one of these then stays on me during the evening) (see custom case post for more info).
All in all I think I have a pretty robust workflow here, its been tried and tested during many weddings and works pretty well.
Royal Chelsea Flower Show 2011
I was lucky enough to spend a few hours at this years Royal Chelsea Flower Show, despite the torrential downpours the show was incredibly busy.
Here are a few photos from the afternoon, the whole gallery can be found HERE
Angela & Noel :: Wedding Story
It was another beautiful sunny day at Northcote House on Saturday for Angela & Noels wedding.
Working in collaboration with Spacebar Productions we covered the entire day from the bridal and groom preparations first thing right through until the end of the night.
It was an amazing day with great family & guests. I hope that the day was a memorable one for everyone, and I wish Angela & Noel all the happiness in the world in their new life together.
Thank you for letting us be a part of such a magical day.
Here is their wedding story, images from the whole day can be found HERE
Angela & Noel :: Sneak Peek
Another gorgeous day yesterday at Northcote House where Angela & Noel became husband and wife. An amazing day, and a great couple.
While I get down to processing all of yesterdays images here is a sneak preview of some of the images, the slideshow shown during the evening. Courtsey of Spacebar Productions.
Full set of images from the day available soon.
Calmeta & Dave
I had a wonderful day with Calmeta & Dave yesterday at Caversham Court. They are an amazingly bubbly couple that seem to fit so well together. I’m really looking forward to being a part of their special day in September.
Here are a few images from their pre-wedding shoot, you’ll find the full gallery HERE
Spring in London’s Victoria Park
Back in London I made the most of the gorgeous weather today and took a stroll down to Victoria Park.
Here are a few snaps I captured whilst down there.
All shot handheld with the Canon 100mm f2.8 Macro
More HERE
The Old Jameson Distillery Dublin
No longer an active Distillery, the old Distillery in Smithfield Dubin is the birthplace of Jameson’s Irish Whiskey.
More from my trip to Dublin HERE
Dublin
I spent the bank holiday weekend in Dublin, I thought I’d share a few images from the weekend. I did a little bit of the touristy thing and visited the Guinness Store house, Trinity College and the Old Jameson’s Distillery. I’ll post a separate entry for the distillery photos.
If you fancy seeing more, take a look at the complete gallery HERE
