Old meet new (ish)

I had had this thought when I first started collecting the vintage cameras a couple years ago. I then saw someone had done somewhere else and thought I'd give it a go when I had 5 spare minutes.  
 
It took me a while to figure out which camera would fit best. I wanted to use the Butchers No.4 (c.1915 I think - correct me if I'm wrong) to the left but I couldn't get the shutter to stay open also the Butchers' body would have needed mounting further away from the 5d's body to allow me to get it off and on. I finally decided on the Vest Pocket Kodak Model B (c. 1925) from my little collection. Sure, it's worth some money, not a massive amount but the cameras are just sat there in the studio. 

I wondered what it would be like to shoot through a near hundred year old lens...which then led me to thinking about all the things this lens might have shot and bearing in mind what the world has been though in the last hundred years I was sat daydreaming (and cringing) for quite some time...

I'm going to test this out this afternoon so more pics to follow! 

WET WET WET, but BEAUTIFUL WEDDING!

I'm SO SO grateful to Canon that the 5dm2 and my L-Series glass has epic weather sealing. That being said I'm fairly certain Canon didn't design them for use submerged under a storm cloud that had flooded the surrounding area at the aptly named Anchor Inn, Hillfarance (near Taunton) for Hannah & Paul's wedding a couple weeks ago...the Bride & Groom came prepared though... they brought a boat along...no seriously!

 

It had been hammering it down all night and by the morning it was clear. 'BRILLIANT!' I thought. I got the gear ready and jumped in the car for the trek down the M5 with the weather looking sunny.  I pulled off the motorway and the skies began to darken….Uh oh….I got about 2 miles from the wedding venue and the heavens opened.


But this couple and their families were so awesome and never once let the weather dampen their spirits! We had a couple of dry spells which we made use of for the boys photos and luckily by the time Hannah arrived the weather was having another dry session. 

The ceremony was beautiful. Only family and very close friends with lovely readings by the Bridesmaids with the venues wedding rooms elegantly decorated by the family.

As soon as Hannah & Paul's ceremony was over it was all sunny and a mostly clear sky which meant we could do the groups and other photos in brilliant sunshine!

Congratulations again to Hannah & Paul and I'm so happy you guys love the photographs. 











Thankyou to Paul & hannah for the lovely message:


 "They are amazing! Thankyou so much. Was a pleasure having you there. You are one hell of a photographer! The lead up to the ceremony pictures gave us the same feelings we had on our wedding day! Honestly, great job Justin!"

Apologies for the complete lack of posts...

Apologies for the complete lack of posts the last few weeks. We've been utterly flat-out with a couple weddings and LOTS of shoots in the studio in time for Christmas and of course just hangin out with our now 9week (!!!) old baby Matilda. 

Time is seriously flying by!

Myself and a mate, Mark, put up a new backdrop support roller system in the studio last week. 

Apart from looking so much more professional than the previous backdrop support its also means we can roll up the white backdrop and have the black drape in the main shoot area and ALSO have photoshoots up against our bespoke "RUBBADUBDUB" Graffiti artwork (bolted to the wall behind the black drape) painted by a well known southwest street artist. It's a fully awesome, unique piece of art that we commissioned as part of RUBBADUBDUB's 1st Birthday a couple years ago and we're pretty certain no other photography company in the area have a 2.5m sq custom graffiti backdrop in their studio, making us OFFICIALLY "the coolest studio around" haha (one of our customers words, not mine!). Above you can see me being "gangsta" haha !

June 2012 - Wedding Month!

4 WEDDINGS and a lot of traveling!

June has seen us shooting four completely different, beautiful weddings with ceremonies and receptions taking place at Queen's College, Taunton (Somerset), Plymouth to The Horn of Plenty in Tavistock (Devon), Westonzoyland (Somerset) to Batch Country House near Weston-Super-Mare  to the Iberostar Mirabello Hotel in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece!

It's been an amazing couple of weeks and we would like to say a MASSIVE Congratulations to our June Brides & Grooms; 

Alona & Mark, 

Sophie & Alan, 

Debbie & Jonny 

and Rose & Adam.  

We're going through all the Photographs from your wonderful days, a couple of which you can see here and also on our website!

We'll be doing a more detailed BLOG for each wedding this week hopefully!!

For our 2013-14 Wedding Photography 

Pricelist please email:

weddings@justinkrause.co.uk

www.JustinKrause.co.uk