Julian Porter Photography » Life is lived in a series of fleeting moments...

Despite the time of year Sue & I have been very busy and in the short month that we have been using our new Nikon’s we have already taken thousands of photographs between us and after numerous calls from other photographers over the past few weeks I thought I would give you all a quick update.

We have photographed 5 training days and 11 portraits 8 Boudoir’s and 3 weddings as well as numerous personal photos and every photograph so far has been as exciting as the very first all those years ago,  the Nikon kit really has rekindled my love for photography.  Those of you who know me will be very aware that I love my job and I am lucky that I always have and nothing has changed there, but for the first time in many years I want to go out on my day off and take photos and moreover so does Sue,  needless to say this has made us nerdy almost 24/7

The most amazing thing about the Nikon’s both the D3’s and the D700’s is the clean files, I love clean sharp photos and these cameras definitely produce what I am looking for, the last wedding I posted was a perfect example where I was shooting in Romsey Abbey between 3200 and 6400 ISO and OMG these files are clean as a whistle and pin sharp,  I also love the SB900’s (flashgun) the Nikon flash system is amazingly reliable and brilliant for my style, I use a lot of fill flash during these bright sunny days and I just love photographing in full sun so often need to use them to create my look.

The one thing that Sue continually comments on is the amount of kit that we now need to carry, although we do have spare cameras and lenses in our car, we only actually carry 3 cameras (2 x D3’s for me and 1D700 for Sue) along with 5 lenses, this is a lot less that we used to carry with our Canon kit and in fact sue carries all of our kit in 1 small shootsac which is brilliant.

We have 27 weddings over the next 12 weeks so I am sure that we are going to be a tad to busy t post too much here but one thing for sure is that I am happy to be on board with Nikon and looking forward to a great summer.

I would once again like to thank Colin Inglis  and Rob MacNiece from Nikon UK for there help .

Jules

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.

Sue and I have decided that our charity for 2009 would be Rose Road and we have just completed our second shoot.

We took the Robinsons to Netley Abbey for a fun shoot and are pleased to say it was fab, We have just had a proofing session and they all loved their photos.

Here are a couple from the day, as you can see they all enjoyed themselves.

This week Sue & I have completely updated the galleries on our wedding website, every single image on galleries 1, 2 and 3 is new as are most of them on gallery 4,

Please take a look and let us know what you think of the new galleries.  if you got bumped, then were sorry 

We have also completely changed our splash page and this new page shows an image or George and Becky from August 1st at Rhinefield.

We have 4 weddings left for this year and will update again over christmas,

Thats it for now

Jules & Sue.

Yesterday Sue & I met up with Ty & Abbie who’s wedding we will be shooting in June and we were very pleased to see that Abbie had started a new Business in there home town Brockenhurst.

Abbie has a new Pushbike Ice-cream delivery business and rides around the village offering a tempting range of ices for sale and also covers weddings and events locally.

We both wish her the very best of luck.   

To book Abbie call her on 07950009544  or send me a message and I will pass it on.

Jules & Sue x

We often get asked by our clients if we do any photoshop work such as removing spots or signs and we are pleased to say we do most of this as a matter of course during our workflow but on occasions we are asked to carry out something a little more complicated which is when we turn to our friends at Metomorphosart who look after our complicated retouching.

Here is a before and after from a recent wedding,  please get in touch with us if you would like a quote for any retouching work.

Jules & Sue x