Men! Your New Fiancee Will Love Secret Photographs from Your Proposal!
It’s true. Your girl will love photographs of your proposal almost as much as the engagement ring, in fact almost as much as she loves you!
It is one of the most special days of any woman’s life and it really is worth capturing the memory for ever. She will always cherish it.
A visit to Kellswater in Co Antrim.
Kellswater Reformed Presbyterian Church, near Ballymena, Co.Antrim. Built in traditional ‘barn’ shape in 1806. The congregation dates to 1760 making it the first RP Congregation in Ireland, and still singing only the Scottish Metrical Psalms in worship.
Tiger’s Bay – a working class area in North Belfast, now rebuilt as a modern housing estate. The streets give a view over the harbour and shipyard areas of the city. I visited the area on a sunny winter day with my Nikon F100, loaded with Ilford Delta 100.
Baby James visited the studio today with Mummy and Daddy to pose for the camera. It’s his third visit as part of his ‘Baby’s First Year’ photography package. What amazing childhood memories!
Here’s Baby Isla, visiting our Dundonald studio for the second of her Baby’s First Year’ Photoshoots.
I’m still playing with the new Fufifilm X-T2, so today I took it on a walk around Kiltonga Nature Reserve in Newtownards, to test out the film simulation feature. One of the interesting features of this camera is the ability to set it to emulate various Fufi Films, like Fuji’s popular Velvia colour film for example.
The camera has a black and white option to record images on virtual ‘Acros’ monochrome film, which should give outstanding contrast, and a rich tonal range. Furthermore, Acros simulation will produce grain in the image exactly the same size as the film version, by ISO. The claim made by Fuji is that Arcos film simlation is even better than shooting in RAW and later converting to monochrome in Photoshop. Fufi even claim that Acros will outperform any other high end digital camera shooting in B&W mode. So, today I set the X-T2 to shoot in Acros Monochrome on card two, and in RAW on card one. (Shooting in RAW, of course means that should I want a colour image, I can use the RAW unprocessed files to produce it.)
It is 2018, and work has begun again after the Christmas break. 2017 was a whirlwind year, with studio appointments peaking to 50 portrait sessions and 10 commercial sessions in November. My New Year Resolution is to slow down, take life a lot easier, and get out into the streets more with a camera.
And there’s the point. After Christmas I decided to invest in a new camera, and logically it should have been a Nikon D850, after all, I’ve been shooting with Nikons for around 30 years, my lens system is all Nikon, and the D850 is getting rave reviews.
But wandering around the streets with a huge Nikon DSLR, and a lens to match, = it’s hardly unintrusive. Some of my wedding photographer friends have been turning to mirrorless cameras. I was sceptical at first, but I decided that before I’d buy my new Nikon I’d weigh up the pros and cons of buying a Fujifilm X-T2: Continue reading New Year, New Gear!
Our very last DoggyStar of 2017 was Casey – who came in full of excitement but soon settled down to the task of posing for the cameras. How cute is this…
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Bella the Labrador – who had her own ‘Doggy Studio Star’ Photoshoot today. Book yours!
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Happy Birthday To You… yes it’s Amaya’s first birthday and what a great excuse for a return visit to our Dundonald studio for a Cake Smash!
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