A beautiful sunny day and another beautiful wedding. Chris and Sarah’s wedding at Old Rufford Mill was a joy to photograph and we got some lovely capturers. Here is a few of my favorites.
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Chris and Sarah – Rufford Mill
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The Johnston Family
Had a lovely shoot today with the Johnston family. Kids grow up so fast these days and it’s so important to capture those memories before they fade.
If you would like to book your family shoot. Please email me info@jpayne.co.uk or check out my website for further details. www.jpayne.co.uk
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Double Trouble
Here we have Natalie and Hollie
After the generic double shots I wanted to try something a little different. Having not shot with a snoot previously I was keen to give it a try and see how much drama it could bring to a photo. Here are the results;
Here is a few other photos from the shoot
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German Shepherd Enjoying the Snow
Just a small update, out in the snow over the weekend with my dog Jenson. Hope you enjoy the photos.
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Wedding: Billy and Rachael
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Natalie: Shots saved from the bin
A re-edit from one of the first shoots I did. This image managed to slip through production somehow and it wasn’t until I trawled over some old work, ready to delete the files that I realised how good a shot it was.
Processing the image was relatively simple. Nothing other than some minor sharpening and a little contrast boost and we’re left with the following. I love how the water was captured dripping from her eye. Amazing.
Going over old raw image files can yield quite a few decent shots that you somehow didn’t use previously. I think the eye learns to select better images the more you shoot so looking back over old shoots can be very lucrative. All of these shots would never have made it otherwise.
Here’s a few other shots I’ve recently processed from a shoot almost a year old.
If you like these kind of images, why not have a shoot yourself? Visit www.jpayne.co.uk or use the Contact button at the top of this page.
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Macro Photography
Macro (close-up) photography is something that seems to impress most people. It is one of those techniques that make the camera see better than a human eye, which doesn’t happen very often.
Capturing the small details requires more than just getting close to your subject, using the right equipment is a must. Extension tubes, lens reversing rings or a dedicated macro lens, it really doesn’t matter. Personally I use a Canon 100mm F2.8 Macro for my macro work as it can shoot at a 1:1 ratio. This means that for every inch of subject, an inch of the sensor will be taken up resulting in your subject filling much more of the frame and more importantly, more detail.
The closer to your subject you are, the shallower the DOF (Depth of Field). This makes focusing correctly on your subjects extremely difficult and something that can take a fair bit of practise. Getting this magic 1:1 ratio is only an option at a fixed distance from your subject. Therefore you set your focus to 1:1 and you move closer or further away until your subject becomes in focus. Easy right? Well not quite….
Aperture plays a big part in this game too, at these sort of distances the DOF is so shallow that small apertures such as F13-F16 have to be used to even get half of a fly’s head in focus! Yes really! In turn this brings on yet another problem….. light.
As I’m sure you’re aware, smaller apertures decrease the amount of light entering the camera which in turn requires a slower shutter speed to correctly expose the image. This becomes a problem for this type of work as a slower shutter is not appropriate when working with bugs or handholding the camera at these focal lengths and distances. So what we need is additional light. Again this comes in various guises, onboard flash, hot-shoe flash, macro ring light, snoots etc. I personally don’t think either is better than the other. It’s all depends what you are trying to achieve. For my macro shots I have used nothing other than a single Canon 430exII mounted on the hot shoe. It can be come problematic depending what angle you are shooting from and more consistent results would be achieved if the flash was a little close to the lens. For macro work, ETTL works just fine. Just play with the FEC (Flash Exposure Compensation) if you find your lighting looking a little harsh or underexposed.
Natural light can also be used for macro work but you generally need a good sunny day or you’re going to have to forfeit some of your DOF or increase your ISO.
So now you have the basics, it’s time to find something to shoot. Bugs and flowers are generally a good place to start. Finding a bug and getting it to stay there while you photograph it is another technique of it’s own. It can take a fair bit of patience to find them in the first place but you’ll soon train your eye to look out for interesting subjects. My tip for you when shooting bugs in sunny light is not to cast a shadow over them, they will almost certainly fly or run away. Creeping up slowly, out of their sunlight is the best method and you’ll be surprised how much flash photography some bugs will tolerate.
Happy shooting.
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- Water Flower
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- Morning Dew Drop
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- Water Drop
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- Wasp
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- Spider
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- Ladybird
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- Hornet
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- Fly
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- Dandelion
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- Dandelion Close-up
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- Candle
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- Bee
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Wedding: Craig and Zoe
Set at West Bridgeford Registry Office, the wedding of Craig and Zoe Walker was a pleasure to shoot.
Craig and Zoe (Click to view Album)
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JPayne Photography Gets Published
A client came to me with a project to shoot some pictures for his magazine feature. Within a few ours we where out on location and shot a series of basic portraits in front of one of his old artworks.
Not only did one of the images make the feature front page, it made front cover of the magazine. Result!!
Alert Graphotism by JPayne Photography (Click to view or buy)
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Graffiti Wall Assignment
Jpayne Photography was asked by a client to photograph a piece of graffiti artwork for printing as a birthday present.
Within 6 hours of the assignment the piece was photographed:
'Dilks' Graffiti Wall
After this stage manipulation could begin. I wanted to print this image in a large format on poster paper so it could be mounted and hung.
I used several techniques to bring the image to life and make it have a heavy impact once printed.
Here is the result!
'Dilks' Graffiti Manipulation
