I recently treated myself to a new camera body, the Canon 5DmkIII, for another busy wedding season. The battle-scarred mkII has been demoted to Clare for lighter, 2nd-shooty duties & the long-serving 5D, which having had mirror-box & shutter replacement operations is still game for more, has been relegated to the bench. Having had the…
A couple of Saturday’s ago I joined these guys, Emma & Harry for their pre-wedding shoot! They’re getting married at the charming Middleton Lodge in deepest North Yorkshire, near Richmond! In recent years the family who own the lodge have turned it into a brilliant bespoke setting for a wedding. One of my favourite things…
After the pre-wedding hangout/35th birthday clay pigeon & hog roast action on Friday (check out the fun and games here), last Saturday we joined Katie & Sam to photograph their country wedding at Katie’s Aunties Farm in Mansty, near Stafford. We always enjoy unusual weddings and this was one of the best we’ve done in…
Last weekend I joined these two kids, Sam & Katie, for possibly one of the coolest (and sunniest) weddings I’ve shot in a long time! They hosted their wedding at Katie’s Auntie’s farm in Penkridge, near Stafford, and had a whole host of ‘country’ wedding ideas up their sleeves!Unusually, but most excellently, Clare & I…
Last weekend I joined these cool kids Sian & Mike for their pre-wedding shoot at Fountains Abbey up near Ripon in the Yorkshire Dales!Fountains Abbey & the Studley Royal estate are a World Heritage Site, containing the largest abbey ruins in the country, as well as some spectacular Georgian water gardens. I love old the…
Love it Mr B! that dog is awesome!!
Fab pics! Can’t wait for the big day and official photos. 9 days to go!! What a handsome fella Walter Dude!!
Awesome pictures! I cant wait for the wedding ones, looking at these, they are going to be pretty special! x
Great Pics! Should have used some selective blur on that model, could have looked ace!
A week ago yesterday I was up at the lovely East Riddlesdon Hall near Keighley for a pre-wedding meeting! I was there to meet Nicola & Chris, a couple we’ll soon be joining to document their big day! It was a beautiful day and after a coffee & a catch up in the cafe we headed…
Last week Leeds-based muso, Gary Stewart asked me along to The Brudenell Social Club to photograph his ‘Year And A Day’ EP launch. I thought it’d be a great opportunity to test my new camera body, the Canon 5DmkIII, to see how it handled a low light gig scenario - especially considering that, apart from the dim red…
These are fantastic. I’m amazed you managed to get shutter speeds as fast as you did, with such little ISO-induced noise.
Brilliant blog post Barns! I enjoyed, in equal measure, the geeky stuff and the really superb pictures.
Having tried the MKIII at Focus, I was left impressed but totally confused by the AF system. That PDF will come in useful when I finally buy one or two bodies… or maybe you can just give me a quick tutorial! 
Earlier this week, I headed to the beautiful Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds to join… …Hannah & James for their pre-wedding shoot! We’d met last week to talk through their big day game plan at St Stephen’s in Kirkstrall and The Headingley Stadium, and today we were blessed with beautiful sunshine & the deserted grounds of the…
Doesn’t get much better than that my friend!
Last Friday night I popped into Leeds to catch a couple of good friends of ours play a gig at Verve Bar in Leeds city centre. When I got there I remembered I’d recently supplied them with a stack of music images I’d captured down at the Sunday Service night I run there occasionally, and they’d…
Last Monday I headed down Denby Dale to visit Bagden Hall. I was there to meet these cool kids, Claire & Steve, whose wedding I’ll have the pleasure of shooting in June! Though as it happens I papped them already, at the wedding of Jo & Stephen last weekend, as they’re all pals! After chatting through…
Thanks again Barnaby,
I love the first shot of Bagden from grass level it’s ace!
Cheers
Steve
James Pearson - Excellent blog post; really great to read your thoughts! Looking forward to upgrading my MKII bodies sometime in the future.
John Hope - Great review sir
Barnaby Aldrick - Cheers chaps!
Carrie - Great review – thinking about it bit more seriously now!
Dylan Cheasley - Just got my used 5D MkIII from ebay & really enjoyed your blog as it went into detail about REAL life setup examples of what we need in the field. Many thanks.