Polly was three yesterday - what more do you need to celebrate other than ice cream and a trampoline…?
I have finally completed editing these images. It took FAR too long, completely my own fault as I started playing with white balances, doing too much processing and generally making things more complicated than necessary. Big lesson learned - trust the automatic white balance of the D3, it is VERY accurate! I’ll put up some comparisons in the next few days - before and after I get my hands on an image - but for now, all of the images on the wedding pages have been played with to a considerable extent. These are NOT representative of what the D3 is capable of, more a product of my limited processing knowledge. There are also a few shots taken with my GRDII, taken late at night in a bar - suitably noisy!
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My blog seems to be having some technical hiccups at the moment… A photoblog that won’t load pictures will not do!
Edit 4th July - Hiccups cured. Before blaming software, computers, ISPs etc etc, make sure you haven’t deleted the images from Flickr by accident…
Freya, Pete and baby Lara, Superman takes a holiday, Jen and baby Edith, Lolita and Jen and baby Edith again. Took a lot of baby pictures…
For any readers that like to run marathons, put October 12th in your diary and get training. The first Borneo International Marathon will be run in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia - a perfect excuse to get over to beautiful Sabah, my stomping ground for 10 years before I returned to the UK. Take a look at the BIM site and sign up today. Quite a few of my friends are involved in organising the event, including fellow blogger Shan. Good luck to all, I wish I could be there (to shoot some images, not too run…!)
Some of the guys from Worcester College that came over from for the wedding. Martin and baby Edith, Piers, Jenny, Vinny and Lizzy with baby George. Really fantastic to see them all again, been far too long in some cases. And nobody ever changes!
A couple more images. The location, Iles aux Moines, and the local pub, Chez Charlemagne. Very fine place indeed!
The bride, the groom and their daughter. I’ve been doing some processing with these - dropping the saturation, tweaking colours and adding a vignette mainly. Not 100% sure I will keep them as they are, but its always worth an experiment. I’ll send them over to the newly weds - if they don’t like, I’ll have to do some changes!
Got back from France Monday night - INCREDIBLE wedding! Images and info to follow. But for now, I’ll just say I have never eaten so much cheese, bread and sausage in my life…. Working Tuesday and even did some shooting for an amateur dramatic group last night. Horrible room and horrible light - but had a few minutes of evening sun slanting through the windows. The D3 is fantastic in situations with high contrast - the image above, of one of the leading ladies, is pretty much straight out of the camera. It needs to be seen at full size to appreciate how the camera holds the highlights - very, very impressive.
I am sitting in Gatwick with a D3 body, but no 24-70 and no 70-200. The deal I bought into - ‘Buy now, pay later’ - was just to good to be true and both lenses are now scheduled to arrive at the end of July. Jessops let me down big time…
I dropped the order and headed over to Calumet in Birmingham. They had no stock either but being a pro shop, they were willing to loan me a 28-70 for the trip for free. I’ll pick up the 24-70 when I drop off the loaner. Thank you Calumet! You have a customer for life….
