Aston Martin at a Wedding

Just a quick one from a recent wedding, this one was a pretty quick snap of the couple and the car, and a superb car it is too, they had taken it for a spin between the church and the reception. I knew I had the shot I wanted straight away but I could have probably done the formals and the couple shots solely around the car but in the end we had to drag ourselves away. It was taken at f/4, 1/2000, ISO400 at 24mm, if I was doing just the car I would have had a grad filter to really deepen the clouds, maybe even have tinted them red like top gear! No time for such things at a weddings though.

Back in the Field

The sky was looking very interesting tonight, it was a shame I didn't really have a fixed idea where I wanted to be as I think I could have done a little better. As it was I ended up in a field after vaulting numerous walls desperately searching for foreground interest other than grass, I failed. I tried the 10 stop ND filter to really blur the grass but didn't like the results, I kept seeing a windows wallpaper type landscape but with really mean looking clouds! I drove round a bit more to see if I could get anything but no joy, it's really infuriating when the sky is so dramatic and you can't find a half decent location! Anyway this one was taken at my stock landscape settings, 16mm, f/16, 1/30 ISO100, with a 3 stop graduated filter. It was good to be out doing a bit of landscape photography again though and I got back before the rain, which was good!

Fearless

I'm having a few issues with the blogging side of things today so if I don't post this time I'm going to give it up as a bad job!

This is the last of my wedding posts from this wedding, I've done a couple as I was a bit low on wedding posts but after this I'm going to get back to some landscape stuff.

I was pretty nervous shooting this part of the wedding, the river was quite wide so there was quite a lot of stepping stones, it didn't help matters that one guy who went turned back as he didn't like the look of one of the stones. I was also aware of a number of spectators filming it on their mobiles and commentating on it as if they knew they'd be sending it to you've been framed! Luckily it went off without a problem and I got a lot of keepers. I had to clone out quite a few people on the banks but it's easy enough with Lightrooms spot removal and photoshop for the more tricky parts.