We have shot a couple of engagement portraits over the past couple of weeks, The first here is Stu and Rebecca who we took to Rhinefield.
And here is Dave and Emily who came to our studio for a relaxed and fun shoot.
As always we had a great shoot with both couple,
Jules
Last weekend we photographed one of my favorite babies Milly, as always she was an angel and I hated seeing her leave, Nick and Morwenna have booked our baby plan wher they come 4 times in a year and so far we have had some fantastic shoots,
Although Sue & I are committed to help our fantastic nominated charity for 2009 the Rose Road Appeal, we still often get calls to help other charities and this morning I had a message from my good friend Phil Collins who runs a fantastic Archery Centre Eclipse Archery in Hampshire, Phil asked if we could cover the photography for an event to raise money for Help for Heroes on August 16th this year, and although its my birthday
(message to you all…dont forget my card) we also have a fantastic wedding at Rhinefield with Dave and Emily on that day so we had to decline.
We did howether donate 2 fantastic photo prizes for there raffle.
If anybody else wants to help or attend please contact Phil for details at Eclipse Archery.
As most of you already know, Sue & I also run a photo school, Its been very popular during the past 6 months and one of our most popular workshops is “getting to know your camera” its aimed at people who are looking to improve their photography and maybe have moved or are looking to move to a Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera from there old compact. Today we had a workshop and Sophie and Emma asked if we could do part of the day outside, As both girls had already purchased their cameras Sue suggested Marwell Zoo which is a wonderful place to wander and photograph. Its a great location for a workshop because almost every shot comes with its own problems like shooting through wires or glass so very challenging but so much fun,
Sue and I both took our cameras, I took my D3 with a 70-200 and Sue took her D700 with a 105 VR so we decided to show you a few of our favorites from the day, I hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed taking them.
You can see a few that Sophie and Emma took over on our workshop blog,
Jules
Well after a lot of soul searching and chatting over the past few months, Sue & I decided to move to the dark side, well actually the black side as its affectionally known, (black lenses as apposed to white) yes we have moved from Canon to Nikon cameras and I must say we are delighted. After years of shooting with Canon pro cameras and pro lenses it was not an easy decision but once we started to look into it was the correct one for both us and you, our clients. It all started when Sue and I ran a “getting to know your camera” workshop back in January and one of our Brides Dad’s Henry brought along his new D700 and after a morning teaching Henry a few tricks I fell in love.
Shortly after that I spoke to Nikon about their pro range and about a month ago I was directed to Colin Inglis a business 2 business manager who turned out to be my newest latest hero, Colin lent us a few cameras and held our hand all the way through the testing and eventual swap over which took place a week or so ago. Sue and I were invited up to Nikon HQ to pick up our new cameras where we met Rob MacNeice who is an Nikon Professional Service (NPS) Support chap who was a great help with the change and has been ever since.
We shot our first wedding with a dual system to ensure we felt comfortable but after just one wedding the photos were amazing and since then we have shot a couple of engagement shoots and a couple of portraits and its fairly safe to say that we both love our new Nikons. I do still have 1 more lens to purchase which I fell in love with a long while ago, its the Nikon 200mm F2 which I hope to collect very soon.
Well I am sure I will update you all here soon but for now thats it, apart of course for a picture of my new toys, opps I mean tools !
Jules
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