Wedding photography

As a wedding photographer, my free engagement shoot provides a enjoyable atmosphere for brides and grooms learn and relax in front of the camera, in preparation for their big day.  Also, the shoot will provide a fabulous photograph to create a signing frame.

This is why I urge all of my clients to choose my full day collection which includes a free engagement shoot.

(Pictured) John & Kirsty enjoying my most recent engagement shoot at South Hill Park, Bracknell. @southhillpark

With 2016 full, youcan check availability for 2017 & 2018

Mobile : 07584 900938

Email : neil.graham0071@gmail.com 

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Photo by Neil Graham  

Cherish the Moment

Even during the formal wedding photographs, there are always moments to be loved & cherished.

Special Valentines offer

With only 11 days until Valentines, spread the love with a huge 20% discount throughout February 2016 if you book your wedding with me. Contact me now to check availability.

Tel: 07584900938

Email: neil.graham0071@gmail.com

Website: www.neilgrahamphotography.com

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Photo by Neil Graham

Valentines Offer

With only 12 days until Valentines, spread the love with a huge 20% discount throughout February 2016 if you book your wedding with me. Contact me now to check availability.

Tel: 07584900938 Email: neil.graham0071@gmail.com Website: www.neilgrahamphotography.com

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Photo by Neil Graham

Wings and Wheels at Dunsfold Aerodrome

This year saw me attend the Wings & Wheels at Dunsfold Aerodrome. With the rich history of aviation at Dunsfold the scene was set. Unlike many other Air shows around the United Kingdom, this show mixes aeroplanes, cars, motorbike, re-enactment groups plus a big show ground with static displays. The ticket pricing is also reasonable at £45 for 2 adults + 3 child, compared to £35 for 1 adult at this year’s Duxford Flying Legends show.

I attended Wings & Wheels last year and shot at 1/500 upwards which stop the propellers dead. This made the aircraft in mid air look like they have suffered an engine failure, and on the ground parked up, so this season I have improved my techniques and lowered my shutter speed down the 1:50-1/125. Now slow shutter speeds brings it’s own problems with sky shots of aircraft. It is very difficult to obtain the correct exposure in bright light with dark aircraft and this is something you have to adjust whilst the display is occurring. 

Hawker Hurricane. Click on the image to view more

This season I have been concentrating on the propeller spin of the classics - Spitfire, Lancaster and Hurricane and with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, visiting Dunsfold was a great opportunity to improve on last seasons photographs.

Hawker Hurricane, Avro Lancaster and Supermarine Spitfire from the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

With the cloud slowly lifting and the sun growing stronger you can start with 1/40 f18 100 ISO (as I remarked earlier) you're know straight away, to capture the aircraft without an ND filter in bright sun would be next to impossible with that amount of light flooding onto the camera's sensor. (Memo to self- buy an ND Filter for next season). Along with many other photo shoots this year, after a while you hit the sweet spot of the shutter speed + F stop + ISO in the camera setting. You can shot in manual mode on the canon 60d to maintain and keep on top of the changing conditions i.e- sun, clouds, blue sky, dark and lightly coloured aircraft, plus if a jet or prop plane. Some photographers choose to shoot in shutter priority or Tv on Nikons mode. The choice is yours, which ever mode you feel comfortable with. As you progress through your levels of photography skill you will quickly realise that there is more than one way to take a picture, in fact there are several.

As you can see from the photography contained within the blog, once you have got the propeller spin in your photos the older aircraft came alive. With a mixture of propeller, fast jets and gliders that flew at Wings and Wheels 2013 you will have to keep adjusting your camera settings all day long. With the 2014 season fast approaching I think it's time for me to attend a different Airshow. Check out the 2014 calendar over at -

Hawker Seafury from the Royal Navy Historic Flight

RAF Typhoon Display Team

The equipment for Wings and Wheels 2013 was a Canon 7d  with a Canon EF F/4.5-5.6L IS USM 100-400mm and a Canon 60d with Canon EF f2.8L 70-200mm IS USM.

If you have any questions please email me at neil@neilgrahamphotography.com or call on +44 (0) 7584 900938

Another great resource for aviation photography is a gentleman called Moose Peterson Aviatin Photography . Check out his wonderful work at  http://www.warbirdimages.com

Elite Preparation Centre Football Blog

I was asked to assist and provide Dan Sleet (director of coaching) from Elite Preparation Centre with some fresh photographs for their website. As my son plays in their Development Centre I would be there watching my son playing so it wouldn't be much effort to bring my camera and lenses along.

I've been shooting football action shots for around 4 years so it wouldn't be too difficult to produce in good light. The challenge was going to be the poor lighting provided by the flood lights. The flood lights for a human eye with a dynamic range of 20 f/stops, after 30 minutes it would be fine, but for a camera with a dynamic range of 10 f/stops it means that any form of photography without a flash would be next to impossible.

In my bag today was my Canon 60d and Canon 7d , f2.8L 70-200mm IS, f4L 24-105mm IS, Canon 550ex flash and Canon External battery pack CP-E4. The ambient light fades fast this time of year so before it vanished I began shooting some action shots. I set the lens to F2.8 around 1/1000 ISO 2500 and even though the camera noise at ISO 2500 on the Canon 60d, it still produces useable photos, I didn't want to push any higher. My only option was to reduce the shutter speed and once you go below 1/640 fast movement it begins to blur.

Development Centre

I had to adjusted from fast running action shots to take slower action shots, i.e : close control and holding the ball up. Slow movement from the players will produce a much sharper action shots at 1/640. One other thing you have to take in to consideration, is that you can't take photos with the flash on while the players are being coached. This only distracts them and may cause an Incident.

Along with the action shots, Dan required some environment photographs of them conducting their coach classes with the boys and girls paying attention.

Dan , Joe and Jake

With the ambient light gone I had placed the Canon 530 flash on the hot shoe. I would love to shoot with an off camera flash but with time constraints, room and continue movement of the coaches and players I just couldn't carry everything and take the pictures, perhaps an assistant would of helped. Next week, you will see me taking photos at their Goalkeeping course, plus the Futsal in a sports hall, which will hopefully have better light.

If you have any questions, or if you would like me to take some sports photographs at your events please call or email me on the contact details below.

Mobile : 07584 900938

Email : neil@neilgrahamphotography.com

http://www.elite-preparation-centre.co.uk

Helping Young Players Develop their Skills, Ability and Confidence.