Inn on the Lake Wedding

Here's another example of an animoto slideshow. There's some really nice new ones that are great to share on facebook ect.

Its also an example of how I sometimes incorporate a little bit of retro looking movie on some slideshows.

Photography How things have changed

I remember many years ago (24 years ago I think) I was doing my works experience at a local photographic studio. The advice I was given was this:-

"Dont be a Photographer because you will never make much money
Computers! Thats what you should do!"

Of course I paid no attention. I had the ambition to be a photographer and nobody was going to put me off.
I knew thats what I wanted to do and I had already fought the odds to learn photography skills.
I attended a school that had no photographic facilities and I had to set my own darkroom up in a cupboard that was used to keep paper towels and cleaning products.
It was the school janitor that showed me how to develop my first black and white film and there was no Gcse or A level photography exams available there.
In a way though the lady that owned the Studio that I ended up working part time at, did have a bit of a vision of all our futures as photographers. Computers and digital technology has taken over.
She was from Old school traditional Photography. She had a false bookcase background that as a small child I was photographed in front of along with my family. Wages came in cash from the till at the end of the week.
There were a number of old school photography studio's at the time and two of them were on the same street.

I dont know if she still does photography now but she has no presence on the web at all. All those studio's did shut down though. Whether they set up elswhere and evolved into different types of photographers to move with the times, I dont know.

Natural Portraits

I have been having fun doing portraits without the usual lighting, background ect lately.
The last 2 portraits I have done the lights ect have stayed in the car. I've definately found its all a much more relaxed experience for everyone and I really think it shows in the photo's.
I have never used any artificial lighting or backgrounds for my weddings, so why not for portraits?
Here's some photo's of Joshua that I took at the weekend.

Mr & Mrs Larkin

A fantastic Wedding!  See below. Animoto is well worth the subscription fee to create something special for couples. I have started to post a brief highlight of the couples wedding day onto their facebook page and its proving very popular.