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Congratulations to David and Hannah

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Once again I haven’t posted for some time!

My son David became engaged to Hannah on Valentines day, and they called in last night to show me the engagement ring. 🙂

I’ve recently been playing with my old Olympus E20 camera, hard to believe that many years ago it was the first digital camera that I used for weddings to master the transition from medium format. The cameras that I’ve used since then are so much faster with a major leap in image quality, pixel count and usability but the Olympus at a mere 5 mega pixels is still quite a capable performer. These two snaps were captured as jpeg images (the Olympus is even slower capturing in RAW format) using the in-built pop up flash. The images have just had a quick adjustment for colour balance, contrast and saturation in Photoshop using the iCorrect Edit Lab Pro plug in and then saved for web. Quite strange once again doing image tweaking in Photoshop as professionally I’ve been using Lightroom for some time. I still use the Olympus now and again as a walk about camera when I want something with a little more control than my point and shoot Fuji F11 which seems to live permanently in my pocket and is a very capable snap shot camera.
Here’s a picture of David and Hannah’s new puppy taken last night.

puppy

And here’s a picture of Tiegan taken a couple of weeks ago.

Tiegan

My mum had a new sofa and chair delivered yesterday so I called over to see them this morning, they’re in dark brown leather and look very nice, the leather is also very soft and comfortable. Another trip over there in the morning as the tap in the hand basin in her bathroom is stiff but I didn’t have any tools with me this morning.

Sunday – a day of mainly rest

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We took my mum out for lunch at the Hollybush today (as it was so good last week, we decided to go there again today!), it’s just around the corner from my mum’s house so is also very convenient. We had the usual struggle with my mum over who pays the bill – we won and paid!

I’m sometimes asked whether film or digital is better for wedding photography. I was a long time film user, using medium format cameras for weddings and 35mm for some commercial work. Over the last few years professional digital cameras have advanced to the point where image quality is as good, if not better than medium format film. As a result digital offers a number of advantages to wedding photography over traditional film, these are:-

  • Better handling of mixed lighting, with digital you don’t have the strange orange colour cast with indoor lighting.
  • Greater flexibility in album design, it would be almost impossible with film to create the beautiful montage custom designs we create for our Jorgensen E albums.
  • The ability to have any finished print or album image in colour, black and white, sepia or toned – with film for a sepia or toned image you really had to capture the original image on black and white film. Here are a few examples.

    • Andrew and Lisa #1

    Andrew and Lisa #2
    The car in the above images is the one used in the film Evita.

    Chris and Chi #1

    Chris and Chi #2

    There is one slight drawback to digital (it’s called post processing or workflow), to create the highest quality images you have to be fully colour managed and the photographer rather than the lab is responsible for any colour correction and image cropping. This means more time is spent at the computer preparing images and designing albums.

    I’m sometimes asked how we produce our final prints, while a number of photographers print on ink jet printers, all our work is produced as conventional photographic prints by professional processors – we have yet to be convinced about the longevity of ink jet prints and want to be confident that the images we provide will last well over a hundred years.

    Just met with Stuart and Karen to go through their requirements for their wedding in a few weeks time. Should be a fun day with a mixture of different atire from kilts to uniformed.

    “Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.” Henri Cartier-Bresson