Blog https://www.abwe.co.uk Tue, 21 Jun 2016 22:34:24 +0100 en-GB hourly 1 Photographer Goes Cycling https://www.abwe.co.uk/photographer-goes-cycling/ https://www.abwe.co.uk/photographer-goes-cycling/#respond Tue, 21 Jun 2016 22:34:24 +0000 https://www.abwe.co.uk/?p=95201 When I was a kid I used to love cycling. I was lucky enough to have had a BMX, Racer & Mountain Bike in my childhood years, but then the late teenage years hit, cars, nightclubs and girls took over and the two wheels were dumped. This is all very well, you may be thinking, and probably nothing unusual in the life path of most kids who had a bike that then don’t as an adult, but what has this got to do with photography, this is a photography blog ...

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]]> https://www.abwe.co.uk/photographer-goes-cycling/feed/ 0 Off Camera Lighting – Simple Creativity https://www.abwe.co.uk/off-camera-lighting-simple-creativity/ https://www.abwe.co.uk/off-camera-lighting-simple-creativity/#respond Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:15:31 +0000 https://www.abwe.co.uk/?p=84660 If you were to have a look through my Bride and Groom portraits section of my online portfolio I think it’s quite clear to see I love my off camera lighting and to be honest it’s not as daunting to do as you may think. I tend to use it at every wedding, no matter if it’s night, dusk, sunset or middle of the afternoon. I find the crisp clean lighting allows a far nicer result to the image and with the stunning sunset backdrop it will give you far ...

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]]> https://www.abwe.co.uk/off-camera-lighting-simple-creativity/feed/ 0 Creativity Isn’t Bound By High End Gear https://www.abwe.co.uk/creativity-isnt-bound-by-high-end-gear/ https://www.abwe.co.uk/creativity-isnt-bound-by-high-end-gear/#respond Thu, 04 Feb 2016 23:29:04 +0000 http://www.abwe.co.uk/?p=82479 A couple of days ago I decided I wanted a new Facebook profile picture, and I wanted it to be new, up to date if you like, instead of just picking one I’d used before, so I set about taking a few self portraits using the gear I had to hand testing my creativity. Whilst most of my kit is fairly high end stuff, filled with decent camera, lens and flashguns, I still like to experiment with bits and bobs to see what can be produced. The following photo is ...

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]]> https://www.abwe.co.uk/creativity-isnt-bound-by-high-end-gear/feed/ 0 42 Weddings in 2015 https://www.abwe.co.uk/42-weddings-in-2015/ https://www.abwe.co.uk/42-weddings-in-2015/#respond Fri, 22 Jan 2016 23:44:04 +0000 http://www.abwe.co.uk/?p=80925 Quite simply, amazing, I’m totally blown away. 42 Weddings in 2015. Really doesn’t matter how many times I say it or read it, but it just seem possible that I really did that many, but I did. I started out on this weddings journey just a few years back, four and a bit to be fairly correct, but I honestly thought it would take a long time to be getting anywhere near that number in a single year. It would take time, hard work, lots of advertising, plenty of happy ...

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]]> https://www.abwe.co.uk/42-weddings-in-2015/feed/ 0 Off Camera Lighting With A Compact Camera? https://www.abwe.co.uk/off-camera-lighting-with-a-compact-camera/ https://www.abwe.co.uk/off-camera-lighting-with-a-compact-camera/#respond Thu, 24 Dec 2015 12:21:32 +0000 http://www.abwe.co.uk/?p=77356 A couple of days back I bought myself a compact camera to be able to use on days out with the family where I didn’t want to take the DSLR’s or quite simply couldn’t take them, and so the camera I bought was the Nikon S9900, a nice little camera with the usual manual controls I’m used to but beyond that it doesn’t compare to the complete range of shooting abilities I have with my DSLR’s where I can use flash compensation nor is it compatible with any creativity links ...

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]]> https://www.abwe.co.uk/off-camera-lighting-with-a-compact-camera/feed/ 0 DSLR’s Are Just To Big and Heavy https://www.abwe.co.uk/dslrs-are-just-to-big-and-heavy/ https://www.abwe.co.uk/dslrs-are-just-to-big-and-heavy/#respond Tue, 22 Dec 2015 21:02:54 +0000 http://www.abwe.co.uk/?p=77060 For Family days out that is! Over the past 3 or 4 years the amount of photos I have in my portfolio has grown at a fantastic rate, with all the weddings and portrait sessions I’ve been lucky enough to have shot, and yet the number of images I have shot of my own kids and family has dwindled alarmingly. Through that time I’ve been slowly building my camera gear by adding quality lens’ and upgrading the camera bodies, and although I’m over the moon with the quality of the ...

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]]> https://www.abwe.co.uk/dslrs-are-just-to-big-and-heavy/feed/ 0 Jetpack Power https://www.abwe.co.uk/the-power-of-jetpack/ https://www.abwe.co.uk/the-power-of-jetpack/#respond Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:48:33 +0000 http://www.abwe.co.uk/?p=73813 One of the major parts of being in business is being visible. Having a presence people can easily find and see. My online visibility has been very sketchy over the past 8 months and yet I’ve had very little time to be able to do anything about it. A couple of years back I changed hosts as I found the original hosting I ever had were, well, less than great at customer service. I had an issue with my sent emails ending up in Spam, and when they refused to ...

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]]> https://www.abwe.co.uk/the-power-of-jetpack/feed/ 0 What To Make The Camera See https://www.abwe.co.uk/what-to-make-the-camera-see/ https://www.abwe.co.uk/what-to-make-the-camera-see/#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2015 23:11:49 +0000 http://www.abwe.co.uk/?p=70161 More often than not in photography in general we are looking for a great picture, and that’s certainly very true whilst shooting a wedding. Sometimes however, the situation doesn’t quite lend itself to giving you the right ingredients for that great image, but a compromise has to be sought. Take today’s wedding with Samantha & Andrew. They hired me for a half day coverage, so my day was done before the far nicer sunset light was upon us, but I still wanted to get them the best imagery I could ...

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