Adam Alex / Louis Pang Seminar

Graphistudio sponsored a fabulous seminar today at London Zoo featuring presentations fom Adam Alex and Louis Pang.

Adam Alex is a really inspirational British photographer who produces some stunningly beautiful "Wow" wedding images. This guy talks a lot of sense about the photography business and this was definitely a case of "listening and learning".

Louis Pang is based in Kuala Lumpar in Malaysia and is a multi award winning photographer. He spoke about the use of flash in wedding photography and using it creatively to shape light and to create mood and dimension.

The big message for me was that photography is always, always, about learning and it is always best to learn from the best. Today was one of those days. Fantastic.

The relevance of the photo at the beginning of this post? Nothing other than it was taken about 200 yards from the seminar building on a bridge crossing the Regent Canal. I thought it was a nice scene with good reflections in the water.

Nicola and Scott

Nicola and Scott married on Friday 15th April. They are a really wonderful couple and we loved working with them. The wedding ceremony was held at the Harold Wood Methodist Church before we moved to the Top Meadow Golf Club for the wedding reception. Great speech by the best man Mark!

Here are a few of our favourite images.

Thanks guys. You were brilliant. Have a great honeymoon in New York.

London at Night

Just had to take this photograph from the 29th floor of Millbank Tower last night. The view is breathtaking.

Also a shot of dawn over London from my hotel room in Kensington.

Photojunction Wedding Album Software

I've just tried the Photojunction (PJ) Wedding Album software as used by none other than the great Jerry Ghionis - just type his name into your browser and see some of his fantastic work. Any way, after a slow start and getting to grips with setting things up, the programme is really quite impressive and allows an amazing range of features to be included in your album design. And it's FREE!

I will continue to use my Yervant Page Gallery software (not free - and expensive!) but this programme is worth a look if you haven't tried it.

Here's a link to a test album sampler I made using PJ and exporting the hi res files into Adobe Premier Pro and then onto ExposureRoom.

http://exposureroom.com/members/tomnphoto/379334a6e9cb4619a59f2bc7f4ae8be3/

Joe Buissink Seminar

I attended a seminar by Joe Buissink today. Joe is reportedly "one of the best wedding photographers in the world". He is based in Los Angeles and has photographed the weddings of many celebs including Jennifer Lopez, Christine Aguilera, Kelsey Grammer and Hilary Swank to name but a few, as well as the 60th birthday of Steven Spielberg.

Joe's photographic style is all about capturing the moment and frankly his images are stunning. Also, interesting from a photographic point of view, he shoots a lot of his work in black and white film.
Was the seminar worth it? You bet! This guy is amazing. So passionate about capturing emotion and letting the image tell the story. Really inspiring.

Photo above is one I got of Joe with the Canon 5D MkII with 70-200 lens.