Yesterday Apple released information on their much anticipated tablet called the iPad. Speculation of this device had been blowing around the internet for quite a while but it reached fever pitch at the beginning of the year when Apple announced a ‘media event’
Last week I spent the afternoon shooting Lizzie & Paul’s wedding in Warwick. I started off covering Lizzie’s preparations at the Warwick Arms then moved down the road to the Lord Leycester Hospital, Its a fantastic old building dating back to the 15th Century.
We had hoped to spend a few hours in Warwick getting some great portraits of the newly married couple but unfortunately the great British weather didn’t oblige us although it stayed dry enough for us to get some shots down by the river at the foot of the castle.
For the reception we moved to a small central restaurant called 7 Square. The restaurant was beautifully decorated and a perfect size for the wedding. I often comment how much I enjoy winter weddings because of the soft, low light. Well this wedding was no different but it was really pushing the limits of what was possible without using flash. Throughout the whole day, apart from the portraits in front of the castle I was running at 3200ISO to avoid using flash but I think the extra effort was well worth it as the low natural light gives a 3D effect to the images.
I hope you enjoy the images.
Martyn
If your a fan of motor sport and great photographs you may want to take a look at the Big picture article on the Dakar rally.
As I am a big fan of both I was totally blown away with the quality of the images in this gallery. Covering a sporting event is difficult enough, when its stretched out over 6000 Km its amazing that anything gets photographed!
Take a look at the article for yourself!
Following a server update my hosting company have mislayed quite a few of the files my blog needs to function correctly.
I have been advised they are working to correct the issue.
Please accept my apologies for this (hopefully short lived) technical issue.
Martyn
Ps I have written this from my iPhone so please excuse the lack of formatting.
*UPDATE*
Thanks to the guys at CMD most of my stuff is back online so hopefully the blog is back to normal, if anyone notices anything a wry, drop me a note.
Well we’re into December, Christmas cards are rolling through the door so I guess it’s about time-
I want to wish all of my customers, readers and suppliers a very merry Christmas from all of us at Greswolde photography.
There are a lot of exciting new things coming in 2010… I can’t wait!
I had the pleasure of shooting Andrea & Rob’s wedding last weekend at the Mount hotel in Wolverhampton.
It was quite a late wedding, the ceremony was at 4pm and with it being winter here in the UK it was beginning to get dark at 3! I have mentioned before that I like shooting in the winter because of the soft light but it brings its own problems, the Great Hall where Andrea and Rob got married is oak panelled and lit from only one side so the amount of light I had to shoot with was incredibly low. Tough conditions always seems to bring the best out of me though and some of the images captured during the ceremony have managed to capture the beautiful soft winter light as it cascaded through the tall side windows.
All of the guests were great fun, as is usually the case with my weddings and because of the late start, many people had lots of energy to spend during the dancing which went on well into the night.
You may or may not know know that as well as photography I also shoot and edit videos for corporate clients. I really enjoy these projects as its a big change from my usual work and I can try lots of different things that help my photography as well as bringing a photographers eye to my videography. I have been lucky enough to work with companies like Asda, where I edited down some of their Paul Whitehouse milk adverts as well as a few team building and corporate presentation reels.
At the end of last month I was asked to film and produce a corporate video for Arla, one of the UK’s largest dairys. They distribute products like Cravendale milk and Lurpack butter to stores and supermarkets including Asda, Tesco and Waitrose. This is the second year they have asked my good friends at Design Junkie to produce their convention video.
While I was at the Chillington hall wedding open day yesterday I was told by two couples they were either having their photographs taken by a friend or by someone who was charging them a couple of hundred pounds for the day. I really can not stress enough how much a risk this is.
When things go bad they can have a great impact on your wedding day and for a long time after, an example of this can be found on the BBC’s website and a text version can also be found of the Daily Mails site. A couple have taken their wedding photographer to court, and won damages after the pictures they provided were of a very poor quality. Yes the couple have won their court battle but for the rest of their married life they will still be without their wedding pictures. (more…)
Just a quick reminder I will be attending the Chillington Hall open day this Sunday.
As recommended photographer I will be on hand to answer any of your questions, I will also have on display some of my albums and a slideshow of my work. If your really lucky I may even be showing a few of you around the hall!
I look forward to seeing all our confirmed couples as well as anyone considering Chillington Hall as their wedding venue.
This post is much later than I had planned so my apologies.
While I was working over in Italy this August I had my camera glued to my hand. This was my first trip to Italy and I had the pleasure of going to Malcesine on Lake Garda, just south of the Dolomites.
The town of Malcesine was very small but very beautiful with its tight winding cobbled streets, small boutique shops and all this was dominated by “Castello Scageri” The castle was incredibly picturesque and was where the wedding took place that brought me to Italy in the first place (pictures here).
I drove around the whole lake and each village looked as though it had come from a Disney film, the brightly colours buildings set against mountains in the background and a shimmering lake in the foreground.
I can highly recommend a stay in this part of the world if you haven’t already and if you have, maybe make another visit soon. Here are a few images from my travels.
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