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Dec 18 2009

The weather outside is frightful // Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

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 my Sunday Service night at Verve Bar in Leeds. My pals & I have proudly run it for over 2 years now and we try to host only the cream of the local music scene and it’s great to see we’ve developed quite a following....

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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

Dec 15 2009

Dan Wilde Live Video // New Leads at Left Bank, Leeds • by Barnaby Aldrick

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 shot off the hoof (hence no stable tripod shots and some pretty ropey panning shots…) [Note: if the above video doesn't show in the Facebook feed, click here for the video] I know Dan well and love this cover he does of Richard Thompson’s ‘Beeswing’....

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Dec 09 2009

Georgie & Jonny // Misty Hazlewood Castle Wedding • Photography by Barnaby Aldrick

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. I could tell they’d be easy work on their big day. The weather on their big day wasn’t ideal; umbrella flipping blustery rain, but we persevered and had a wonderful day. Here are a few of my faves, beginning at the Georgie’s parents beautiful house...

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Dec 08 2009

Ich bin ein Berliner! // German weekend break • by Barnaby Aldrick

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 the surprisingly confusing S-Bahn (suburban rail network) into town. We changed onto the U-Bahn Subway and found ourselves on the U2 line, which actually had a Zoo Station! I remember U2 recorded the groundbreaking Achtung Baby in Berlin in the 90′s and never pegged that...

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Dec 07 2009

Angie & Pete // Winter Woodlands Wedding • Photography by Barnaby Aldrick

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) and it was ace to hook up with them again. While Clare pottered over to the gents getting their kilts on (and thongs!) I caught up with Angie at their home round the corner. I think I made that choice wisely… While Ange had her...