Category Archive: Great Fosters
Surrey wedding | Wedding 365#83
I come back to this wedding photograph repeatedly and probably more so now that I have children of my own. Younger bridesmaids and page boys certainly experience a wedding from an entirely different viewpoint, and I’m not just talking about their size. They are entering an adult dominated day accompanied by unusual sights, sounds and agenda. Yes it’s exciting for them usually, but I can’t help feeling that the enormity of the day must strike home continually at each juncture. This intense photograph certainly records that well. We’re about to leave for church and it’s being explained what’s expected of her. Wide eyed, she’s keeping up, just.
SURREY WEDDING VENUE: Great Fosters at Egham.
SHOOTING DATA: Canon 5D Mk1, 24-105mm lens at 84mm, F4, 1/1600, ISO 800, under by a third.
Wedding photographer Surrey | Wedding 365#38
WEDDING 365 PROJECT – Daily choice of a wedding photograph selected from my catalogue, collated from time spent documenting these unique events.
SHOOTING DATA: 5D, 28mm from a 24-105mm lens, F2, 1/200, ISO 1250, underexposed by a third.
VENUE: Great Fosters
ETHOS: I’ve written in some detail within the last dozen or so posts about shooting low light; capturing scenes when the available light may only be candles and dimmed pin spots. So at last, a 365 to celebrate sunshine, and colour! There are some scenes that emphatically shout; “Shoot me in colour.” This is one. The differing tones of foliage. The vapour trail delicately hanging in the sky. I’ll admit too, to a touch of alteration in post production as the initial rather more brown toned stream was not so pleasing; it’s not something I openly subscribe to in documentary wedding photography terms, but this is a portrait, a mantelpiece moment, and it’s shot and reproduced with those thoughts in mind. With such strong no holds barred directional light, a similar problem is occurring in facial terms to when I shoot inside in darker surroundings. Shadow under eyes, shadow across faces etc et al. Step right back and compositionally work with the whole scene and that scenario is enveloped by a far more expressive and pleasing final capture.
Great Fosters wedding photography – Adam and Julie
It was an early ‘set off’ yesterday for Adam and Julie’s wedding. Usually I’m car bound during Wossy’s Radio 2 gig, but if the radio splurts a dash of Brian Matthews when I turn the engine over, then I’m probably dodging traffic on the M25. Destination Ewell, arrived 10.30, service midday (sent to the balcony, up in the Gods at the church, if you’ll pardon the usage) – why is it everyone in the House of God is welcome bar the photographer? Anyway, back to a favourite venue of mine, the Tudor splendor that is Great Fosters near Egham for the reception. A couple of years ago at the very same venue I’d been doing an arty lit shot with the bride on a stairwell. I whipped closed a couple of curtains, only to find these were original designs by Jane Austin hung in 1798 by the great lady herself. I get selective vision when I’m photographing weddings, so large ‘don’t walk on the grass’, ‘don’t photograph in here’, or more pertinently titled signs like ‘don’t touch these curtains ever ever ever’ don’t tend to fog my vision when trying to grab a shot. Still no harm done, honest guvnor. A couple of favourite images from yesterday then…
