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Landscape Photography from West Yorkshire landscape photographer Pete Barnes

This is image is part of a tutorial set I have put on my site (www.petebarnesphotography.co.uk/2012/05/22/landscape-phot...) if anyone wants to have a look about the steps taken to get this shot.

I ducked out yesterday evening for a bit of landscape photography to a field near where I live and got this shot of a foot path that cuts straight through the field. I have used this location before but it was when the wheat was just about to be cut and I came away with a different photo – fields can change quite quickly at this time of year.

Wedding Photography from the punch bowl inn, in Crosthwaite, The lake district (link- www.petebarnesphotography.co.uk/2012/05/06/wedding-photog...)

Bit of a unique wedding photography post today as it is the photography from our very own wedding! That’s right photographers get married too! We got married at the end of April at the Punch Bowl in the beautiful Lyth Valley in the Lake District. Before I go on I cannot speak highly enough of The Punch Bowl and all the staff, they ran things absolutely perfectly, it was everything we hoped it would be and if you are up that way I would highly recommend dropping in for a spot of lunch, the food is to die for! For about a year I have had clients enquiring as to who is going to take our wedding photographs. We had some specific requirements for the photography, as a photographer I wanted to have a certain amount of control how I wanted the photos to turn out, both at the time they are captured and also how they were processed, so most professional wedding photographers were out straight away (not that they wouldn’t have done a fantastic job, there are some brilliant wedding photographers out there at the moment). So I turned to my good friend Sam who loves his photography and who comes out with me from time to time to take photos. Sam soaks up photography info like a sponge and I’ve watched his shots improve consistently over the years so as long as he said yes, and as long as he didn’t crack under the pressure, I knew we would be ok!

We had been up to the Lake District during that heat wave we had in March (remember that!) for a few practice shots, we had got the ‘couple shots’ perfected using the great surroundings so we were happy with our choice with Sam taking the photos. I had said I would process the shots how I liked but he was also free to do as he liked with them, so all the shots here have been taken by Sam but processed by myself, Carol and I are both huge fans of black and white photography, hence why most of them are in Black and white. If you are interested in seeing any of Sam’s other work, he maintains an active flickr stream (tangamansam), well worth a look for any photography enthusiasts.
I hope to put out a Real weddings piece for this wedding so stay posted, as soon as I can get the wife to fill in the questionnaire! I will say we were very lucky with the weather as we had pretty solid rain for the entire month of April and even on the day it was raining seemingly everywhere except the Lyth Valley, the micro climate played to our advantage! So I’ll put up some of our favourites of the day now, hope you enjoy looking at them as we certainly enjoyed having them taken.

Landscape Photography by West Yorkshire Photographer Pete Barnes

Saw this on the way home yesterday so I thought I'd hop out and grab a few shots. This is a tree I photograph on quite a few occasions as it is just at the back of where I live so it's not like I have to drive/walk around for miles. Strange weather conditions, the sky was quite dark and it had been raining pretty steady all day but I could see the sun was going to just peak through before it went over the horizon.

It's probably a little over processed for my taste but to be honest when I looked back at the RAW file it wasn't hugely different. I probably used a bit too dark a filter for this one (Lee 3 stop hard) so it has a bit of a HDR feel. Wasn't at all happy with the flare I got on these, which is always a problem when shooting into the sun but I minimised it a little in post. I was using my old 5D for this one, I'd forgotten how much crap they pick up on the sensor so will probably have to give that a scrub, not normally an issue as if it gets used the lens on it is at 1.2 but this at f/16 was one spotty mess.

Anyway it was just a bit of a snapshot, thought I'd put it out there for the flickr bunch. If anyone is interested the exif was ISO100, 25mm, f/16 at 0.5sec, with a grad as mentioned. Processing wise nothing out of the ordinary, dodged the grass and the leading fence a little for a bit of pop!

Thanks for looking

Wedding Photography by West Yorkshire based Wedding Photographer Pete Barnes

More photos from this wedding at www.petebarnesphotography.co.uk/2012/02/27/holdsworth-hou...

We recently had the pleasure of providing the wedding photography for the beautiful wedding of Danielle and Matt at the Holdsworth House Hotel near Halifax. I’ll start by saying that we had been looking forward to this wedding since they booked us over a year ago. Danni and Matt are such a lovely couple it was another one of these weddings where we really felt more like guests with cameras instead of wedding photographers. Holdsworth house is an equally lovely venue, we did a great wedding there last year and have quite a few coming up this year as well so we were quite excited about doing the photos. There was quite a thick frost about which is generally the case for February weddings but it looked great, almost like a light dusting of snow, I knew if it stayed clear and we could get the couple outside before it got dark we would be laughing. It was quite cold out, people weren’t overly thrilled about darting out for the quick big group photo but we managed and did a few smaller groups indoors but I always say to couples I try and keep group shots to a minimum.

Danni and Matt had to endure the cold for a little longer as we wandered about getting a few shots but they were great and didn’t feel the cold (or so they said!) It would be far too cheesy to say their love for each other kept them warm, so I won’t. Danni was an old work colleague of my assistant (& soon to be wife) Carol so it was nice that we weren’t total strangers. Both the bride and groom were really easy going and a lot of fun to take photos of. The couple had put a lot of work into all the decorations, going for a bit of a vintage theme. They had cool candle jars covered in lace and had made sloe gin for the favours which looked great in the little bottles. Each table was named after a famous movie couple which I thought was a great idea. Everyone enjoyed the meal and the speeches and we stuck around until the first dance just doing informal shots here and there. All in all it was a great day and we were happy to have provided the photography. Danni had wanted some of the photos processed in a bit of a vintage style which I love doing. I put in a few black and whites too but as usual the couple get both the colour versions and any different versions we do, all on disc to print and share as they like. I’m putting a couple of photos up here and on my facebook stream. Congratulations again folks, I’ll have the discs out soon and we both wish you all the best for the future.

Valentines day with Danbo and the love monster. Photography by Pete Barnes

As it's valentine's day today my fantastic fiancée got me this cute little love monster so I thought I would take a photo of it for her. Cool little couple. Happy Valentine's day folks