Nicola & Ross

Raining and blowing up a gale at Cubley Hall but I think we beat the obstacles and got some great photographs

 

Stephanie & Robert’s Wedding

..at Hey Green in Marsden

 

Glass Negatives 2

I thought I’d post a few more of the images as I found them quite interesting. I think I’ve made them a little clearer with a bit of Photoshop enhancement

Estate Buildings

The Parish Church

The Railway Station

The College

The Market Hall

Glass negatives

Had an interesting challenge last week when we were brought in a collection of old glass plate negatives.  They seemed to be of scenes of old Huddersfield.

After a bit of detective work it turns out they are copies from pen and ink drawings of Huddersfield landmarks. Copies from a book of illustrations. As each negative has one image and part of a another so it looks like the photographer copied a left then a right page. Put back together, the book looked something like this

New Street. The buildings on the right are still there and the alleyway. Huddersfield Bazaar is Nat West Bank. I think the building next to that is gone but the one after is still there.

New Street as it is today. I’ve not quite got the same elevation as the illustration but the angle isn’t far off.

New portrait ideas

A few new ideas we’ve introduced to add something a bit different to some studio portraits. We can incorporate a selection of type and graphic images over the images.

 

Studio portraits

We have just received the latest upgrade to our studio portrait viewing software – and it’s pretty impressive .

From the studio session customers can choose their favourite picture…

…we can then show it on a large screen in a variety of different options including over 100 different frame styles..

..and even show how it will look on the wall of their house!

Customers simply bring to the studio or email a photograph of the room they would like their family portrait to hang and the software does the rest.

Online Album Preview

Another exciting new feature we are introducing this year is online proofing for your wedding album. We will design the album and upload it to a secure website where you can log in with a password and see the design.

An example can be found here

http://albumexposure.com/johnwoods/sample-studio-album

Password = sample

Wedding Fair

We will be at Durker Roods Hotel in Huddersfield on Sunday 11th March attending their Spring Wedding Fair

We will be showcasing new ideas and products for 2012 weddings and onwards.

INCLUDING…….Your very own iPhone app.

We will also have new wedding albums on show. The event is free, so please call along

Leaving New York

Bit of an experiment with film footage and stills. Shot on a Canon G12 and Fujifilm X100. Processed in iMovie with a ‘harsh light’ effect to give it a Super8 retro film look at the beginning and end

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New York

In the Mid-1950s there was a book published of photographs taken in New York by photographer William Klein. The book often goes for large sums on money on Amazon and Ebay.
The grainy, stark, high-contrast black & white and sometimes blurred photographs capture the urban chaos of New York in a graphic way.
On a trip there last week I tried something similar – here are a few of the results