Here’s a before and after image from one of the most difficult churches to shoot in locally. St Kevin’s at Bangalow. It’s difficult because of the lighting. Amber glass windows fill the church with yellow light while pure white light comes in from any open windows.
By photographing with manual settings and in RAW I can readily fix this colour cast after the wedding. I normally do this by getting using the groom’s white shirt as a known white point to set the white balance and then batch process the rest of the images with the same lighting.
The problem is that when the colour cast is corrected to the true colour, any pure white light entering through open windows turns bright blue. All things considered though, this is a gorgeous church to work in and a delight to be the wedding photographer at.
You’ve got to love technology. Here’s a quick moment from the groom getting ready for his wedding on Saturday. Adam needed a bit of help with the finer parts of tying a proper Full Windsor knot. So it was over to YouTube for a quick instructional video. Classic.
More photography from this great wedding in the hills behind Byron Bay to come shortly. In the meantime you can see more of my wedding photography at my website here.
And boys, if you need help with your tie, here is the video in question:
It’s wedding season. Winter is officially over for wedding photographers in Australia. Time for some great wedding photography. My first wedding of the season is tomorrow in the beautiful Byron Bay hinterland with a gorgeous bride. Looking forward to getting back into it with some great wedding photos.
Gotta love a girl in a wedding frock on a dirty great motorbike in the Byron Bay sunshine.
Actually the bride is a model for my stock photography, you can see more here. I’m always on the lookout for new models – particularly men – give me a call or email if you want to know more about working as one of my models.
A little while back while in the middle of a stock photography photoshoot in Sydney, I was approached by a man who can best be described as a boofhead (rugby league jumper, overweight, long very greasy hair, etc). At first I didn’t catch what he said to me and had to ask him to repeat himself. The second time I heard him clearly but was surprised and asked him to say it a third time. His aggressively toned question was, “Did you just take a photo of my daughter?”.
The rest of the conversation went like this:
Me: “No, and why would I want to?”
Him: “Well I heard your machine there going and you had better not be taking photos of my daughter. So what were you taking photos of.”
Me: “This bloke, he’s a model”, as I pointed to the subject of my photography. Then I made a quick comment along the lines of ‘it’s a public place and I can take photos of whatever I want’ and walked away. No use arguing with an idiot, all you get is two idiots.
The thing that irritated me most about this guy was how I was clearly taking photos in that spot and he brought his daughter over and deliberately stood smack bang in my background – and then accused me of doing something he thought was sinister.
Because of attitudes like this and increasing bureaucratic restrictions on photographers, there is going to be a rally in Sydney at 10.00am on Sunday August 29th at Campbells Cove. I can’t get to the rally, but if you can more details can be found here.
I'm an experienced and multiple award winning professional photographer. I'm a fully accredited Associate Member of the AIPP and specialise in wedding photography and stock photography.
