Firstly, I’d like to inform you that… Now a little about my past week’s festive shenanigans: Last Sunday was the Sunday Service Christmas Special it was a most triumphant evening. If you’re a regular visitor to my blog you’ll probably have seen images I’ve shot for The Sound Gallery of local acoustic bands playing at…
Monthly Archives: December 2009
My buddy and all round skill musician Gavin Mart asked me along to photograph his ‘New Leads’ gig at ‘Left Bank’ arts space in Leeds last Friday. While I was photographing Dan Wilde (who’s played my Sunday Service night several times) Gav asked if I could shoot a little video and this is what I…
Nice dubbing!, vids from the 5D2 look great…very photogenic venue, too – I bet it’s bloody freezing though.
this looks amazin! what a fab venue, all wrapped up, lots of candles and good music – very festive – even if it is freezin! Merry Christmas!x
The last of my Winter weddings till after Christmas was with the lovely Londoners Georgina & Jonathan. I really enjoyed meeting these two again at their beautiful wintery pre-wed at Hazelwood Castle a few months back (post here). We had loads of fun and it was a joy to laugh and mess about photographing them. …
Great Pictures. Seriously.
One question – when you do your sequence shots, do you put them together using photoshop first.Or, is this a feature within your website?
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Beautiful pictures! I follow your blog for a few months and like your work very much. Greetings from Germany.
Last weekend Clare & I took a few day’s off for a winter break in Berlin! In spite of it being FREEZING we had an ace time roaming the streets, soaking in the great food, fascinating wartime & East/West history and gluvine! We flew in via the oft maligned but impressively cheap Ryanair, and caught…
Cool pics. The BBC showed some really good documentaries about Berlin recently, it looks like a fascinating place…and I love Currywurst…I make a Germaican version mit der Reggae Reggae sauce.
Here’s two: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p5yv4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p4fl4
Not on iPlayer anymore unfortunately, but they will be repeated sometime…I did see this the other day, too – slightly illegal, but if you pay the license fee, what’s the harm? 
http://myvideo-zoolander.blogspot.com/2009/11/bbc-secret-life-of-berlin-wall.html
If you download all the parts and open the first Zip it should expand them all into one AVI or MP4(it does on a Mac, anyway).
Also…this has some brilliant before and after shots of the wall, I’ve never seen this done so well:
(Click on Nos 12-15)
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/the_berlin_wall_20_years_gone.html
[...] It reminded me of all the Wursts Clare & I ate when we visited Berlin in December 2009 (blog post here) [...]
Introducing the fabulous, the stylish, the glamourous Angie & Pete: A few weeks back I joined Angie & Pete for their winter wedding at Woodlands Hotel in Leeds. It was cold and overcast, but loads of fun. I shot their pre-wed with their cool daughter Louise a few weeks prior at Kirkstall Abbey (post here)…
Cris - And a Merry Christmas to you too
Had a great night at the Sunday Service, even managed to stir some Christmas spirit in old Humbug here! Have a good one…
Simon - Happy xmas to you too, I’m a new blog follower, really like your style, Yorkshire is very short on decent bloggage…good luck for the next decade buddy!
Barnaby Aldrick - Why thank you very much amigo! Great to have you readin! If you’re in the area we could meet for a brew in Leeds in the new year. Have a great Christmas and all the best for 2010 to you too! B
Simon - That’s very sociable of you, count me in!
Barnaby Aldrick - Cool man – give me a shout on 07929 087982 or drop me an email when you’ve a moment for a brew in town sometime in the new year. Have a great Christmas. B
AC - Hahahaha… some powder. That covers the ground – almost. Cool. I am wearing my Sorels and a puffy winterjacket. You have frost and we have crazy Narnia weather – it really is all crazy, not normal Christmassy Stockholm weather at all.. Look out for the falling blocks from the roofs! Well below minus 10 degrees celcius at night.
A light question, what kind of light do you bring to your weaddings? it’s well impressive, nice colourcorrections, not a lot of noise, sharp – what do you bring?
Barnaby Aldrick - Hey AC – great to hear from you and I know our snow is softcore, but you should see how spectacularly our entire country grinds to a halt after a sprinkle of snow! It’s hilarious.
The only lighting I take to weddings is two little Canon speedlights. A 430EX & 580EX, and generally use them off camera triggered with either the ST-E2 transmitter (if I want ETTL functionality, such as for people milling at the evening party, and generally have Clare follow me to the side to bounce flash from the roof/walls) or the Elinchrom skyport (for radio triggering a manually set gun for consistent speech flash). Though for my last wedding I hired an Elinchron Ranger Quadra flashhead and mobile battery and they’re great for indoor groups/speeches and have more kick than the 580, so I’m gonna buy a set this week, as a little £1500 xmas present to myself! But generally I hang fire as long as possible, and wrestle at f1.4 / 800ISO before getting the guns out.
Sharpnesswise, I sharpen images on import into Lightroom & in post (after lightroom export when branding/blogging)
Colour correctionwise: I always shoot RAW so I can tweak the white balance.
Noisewise: I don’t like heavy digital noise, so even with the 5DmkII I try not to shoot over 1600ISO where possible, but will push it when needs must up to 3200. The top ISO on any camera is usually like the top speeds on a car speedometer, rarely usable and out of control.
Watch out for those falling blocks of snow! x