One of my biggest learning experiences from the time I spent 1:1 with world renowned Australian wedding photographer David A Williams towards the end of 2008 was the importance of details in providing context to many of the other wedding images taken during the day – much more so than I had previously allowed for. I also got some great feedback on techniques for making these work together.
So on my way back from taking some photographs at the Stubbington 10k road race I took a walk along a wonderful stretch of Hampshire coastline – the Hill Head beach – lined with predominately green beach huts. Without spending too long, and with only two long lenses I got some details from the huts, focussing today on the locks many of which are wrapped to shield them from the sea water. Now I know this isn’t unique, it has been done elsewhere by other photographers but it was a worthwhile exercise to get different images from essentially the same subject – critical when you photograph many weddings a year across Hampshire and the surrounding counties of Sussex, Berkshire, Surrey and Dorset, and need to make sure you treat each with the special attention it deserves, keep working your eye for different images and capture their details with a fresh approach as well as with some consistency in style – there is nothing worse IMHO than going back to the same venues and photographing exactly the same images time after time.
So here is a montage from this morning….
As with all others these individual images, and the montage, are copyrighted and may not be used elsewhere under any circumstances….
by Mike French
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