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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.

A busy week

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I’ve completed all the initial processing of the images from Dean and Cath’s wedding. Their web gallery was loaded onto our web site on Monday morning. We started photographing the wedding preparations at 11 o’clock in the morning and continued right through to around 11:30 in the evening and we had over 400 images to process. Our Nikon D2X and Fuji cameras performed flawlessly and captured some great images in some very challenging lighting which ranged from blazing sunshine to night time images outside.

All our images are captured in raw format to ensure maximum quality and then converted into high resolution jpeg files in Adobe Lightroom, while the slight corrections to some images for exposure and white balance is a fairly quick process the card downloads and the import into Lightroom and the export out of Lightroom takes a little time. Once we’ve created the high resolution images we then use BreezeBrowser Pro to create web resolution copies which are used to create the web viewing gallery and DVD slideshow.

While the images are being processed we hold copies on both our working computer and our file server (we also still have the images on the camera cards), once all the processing is completed we also create additional copies of the raw images and jpegs on DVD archives, the images from the camera cards are then no longer needed.

I sent the thumbnail proofs to the lab for printing on Tuesday evening and they were received back yesterday morning.

All the processing is now completed until Dean and Cath select the images for their wedding album or we receive orders from the web gallery which will be available to guests once Dean and Cath have viewed them.

I know a number of photographers who take several weeks to load up their web viewing galleries but with my workload I need to keep up to date with processing so everything is completed fairly quickly, for this reason we also produce album designs within a few days of receiving the list of selected photographs, once the album design is approved the album is ordered and the print files sent to the lab within a day.