Matthew Oldfield Photography

Three generations - Brian Oldfield, my father, Joseph Jenkins, the birthday boy and Ed Jenkins, Joseph’s father…

July 28th, 2008 | Category: General, Photography | Leave a comment

Jo will be four next week but will be heading away on holiday on the actual day, so this weekend my sister and Ed had a birthday party at a ‘Wacky Warehouse’ - a lot of fun….

July 28th, 2008 | Category: General, Photography | Leave a comment

It was suprisingly cold on Inle first thing in the morning. Not surprisingly really, given how far north it is and that I was there in winter. Still, it caught me unprepared. The only piece of warm clothing I had was a very thin fleece - not quite enough when we were [...]

July 14th, 2008 | Category: Photography, Travel | Leave a comment

… Of sorts.  A friend from university who was at Worcester and read Biology with me has been called up for the British eventing team at the Beijing Olympics!  Take a look here and here.  Real shame I won’t be there, be great to see it live…  I will be shouting lots at the television [...]

July 8th, 2008 | Category: General | Leave a comment

The D3 produces fantastic images straight out of the camera, but there is always plenty of room for a tweak here, a fiddle there, and my recent wedding photographs went through quite a bit of processing.  Shooting RAW give you a huge amount of leeway, but post-processing is no substitute for getting the image right [...]

July 7th, 2008 | Category: Photography | Leave a comment

Polly was three yesterday - what more do you need to celebrate other than ice cream and a trampoline…?

July 6th, 2008 | Category: Photography | Leave a comment

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 [...]

July 4th, 2008 | Category: Photography, Travel | Leave a comment