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Northcote House wedding photographer | WEDDING 365#14
WEDDING 365 PROJECT – 365 days (strictly speaking of course 366 this year) 365 reportage wedding photographs.
SHOOTING DATA: 5DMk2, 135mm, F2, 1/100, ISO 800
VENUE: Northcote House, Sunningdale
ETHOS: Keeping a 365 list of postings is somewhat of an intimidating task in terms of workflow. It’s also an educative process, enlightening with regard kit choice. I swapped to using mainly fixed focal length prime lenses about three years ago. These lenses enable me to shoot in next to no light at all. The swap was a journey of creative self education as I studied the work of some of the finest wedding photographers and photojournalists in the World, past and present. Their work embraced available light and seemed so much more three dimensional. It was their artistic treatment of light that shaped a change of stylistic direction for me personally. The 50mm 1.2 is a particular weapon of choice when faced by a room with challenging light conditions. Another, represented by this image above, is the 135mm. Certainly in the case of speeches, where it’s not always practical to be as close to the action as you would like, this lens has given me the opportunity to tighten up on elements of ‘audience’ reaction, whilst working in reasonably low available light without the requirement to illuminate the room like a fireworks display with flash.
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Northcote House wedding photography – Graham and Emma
“We’d like a relaxed approach to the photography, capture the guests but let’s not stand in formal group poses for too long.” Music. To. My. Ears. It’s almost three years to the day since I last photographed a wedding at Sunningdale Park’s Northcote House. It was good to be back. Northcote’s nestled within 65 acres of pretty spectacular grounds (see below,) some of which is occupied by a school for government; the security cameras promised my every move would be captured as I parked up. I believed them and felt tempted in a show of irony to leave valuables proudly on display for once. By the by, Northcote is special. And just to prove I ask questions and digest the answers; the American front of house manager proudly informed me that it was only built back in 1930, the fruits of a fortune provided by British American Tobacco. The American owner ‘donated’ it back to the British government upon consideration that if he sold, he’d by liable to the kind of taxes that would render a grown businessman powerless to tears. And so their loss, is the wedding industry’s most definite gain. Some images from what was an exceptionally relaxed day. My brief for the day seemed rather short, three group shot combos but eight hours in total to gather my vision of a fabulous wedding.
