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Time to update my blog!

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It’s so long since I last added a post! I’ve been really busy and a lot of things have been happening but I must post here more often.

I met with Victoria and Layton to go through the final details for their wedding which is taking place at DeCourcey’s, they’re a lovely couple and I’m really looking forward to photographing their special day.

I’ve just finished processing a load of images taken at an Italian wedding on a Nikon D700 camera, the quality of images is absolutely amazing particularly in low light at high sensitivity, the auto white balance is superb and very little post processing work is required on the images.

My HP desktop computer had a really noisy fan on the graphics card (it’s a common fault on that particular card) and the pc was collected by courier on the Friday afternoon and was back with me on the following Tuesday a superb turnaround. The graphics card was replaced and the BIOS updated to the latest version, the hard drive was unfortunately restored to a ‘factory fresh’ copy. 🙁 Fortunately I created an image of the hard drive before sending it back and was able to restore everything very quickly. While the pc was away being repaired I was using my back up machine which is only a single core machine, I certainly missed the power of the HP machine!

I’m currently studying a third level course with the Open University which requires me to use versions of Eclipse software provided by the OU, unfortunately the supplied version doesn’t run properly under Windows Vista 64 and I have been using my notebook running XP for the course but I finally installed a virtual version of XP on my desktop using VMWare and the software is running correctly, it’s so much easier just using the one machine. 🙂

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