Engagement Shoot Preparation in Guildford

Just getting everything ready for the shoot later today with an engaged couple in Guildford. Its quite an involved process, as I need to ensure that every possible thing that can go wrong needs to be thought of and a suitable backup put into place. Speaking as a wedding photographer its simply no good turning up to a shoot and having some item of equipment go down on me!! That would be an absolute nightmare!!.

As a professional photographer I ensure that all my equipment is checked and tested before the shoot. One of the most time consuming is cleaning the camera sensor and lenses with the blower and cloths to ensure that there are no specs of dust on the sensor for the shoot. This can seriously ruin a shot if there are specs on the image. If this does happen, you have two options, either bin the shot, (or the whole shoot if they all have specs on them.) or enter a lengthy painful process of removing them in post production with photoshop.

If the shoot does go well, the couple (who will be getting married in a months time) are interested in black and white or in a sepia tone. This is quite unusual for a wedding couple to request to have mostly black and white images. Normally it is just a few images in B&W that the couple ask for during the engagement photoshoot.

Well with all my cameras charged and everything backed up to ensure there is no redundancy, i’ll be heading out to do the shoot. Check back on the blog later to see the images I post.

Hello again, just back from the shoot, and we had lots of fun. The guys were a little late due to traffic on the Guildford roads, but it was no problem as it was such a bright sunny day. It didn’t take long to set up the lights and get going. They guys loved this really gorgeous tree, so we ended up doing most of the photos there. They also loved this really long path along the canal, so we did some natural walking shots there. The greens in the trees were so amazing, I decided to turn the sepia tone to allow the greens to blend through. I’ll also post the original photo so you can compare the two. Let me know what you think by comenting below.

Thanks for reading

Rob

Engagement Shoot in Guildford with fantastic lens flare from the sun

Looking very Serious!!

Moody close up of the guys

The Engaged couple looking natural walking along the Guildford Canal. This shot has a slight tint of Sepia tone and a slight increase in contrast.

This shot shows the really amazing colours that the soft light was producing that day. This photo is the original unedited photo to show how saturated the green tones were in the trees that day.