Northern NSW and Byron Bay Wedding Photography

Here’s a before and after image from one of the most difficult churches to shoot in locally. St Kevin’s at Bangalow. It’s difficult because of the lighting. Amber glass windows fill the church with yellow light while pure white light comes in from any open windows.

By photographing with manual settings and in RAW I can readily fix this colour cast after the wedding. I normally do this by getting using the groom’s white shirt as a known white point to set the white balance and then batch process the rest of the images with the same lighting.

The problem is that when the colour cast is corrected to the true colour, any pure white light entering through open windows turns bright blue. All things considered though, this is a gorgeous church to work in and a delight to be the wedding photographer at.

Check out more of my wedding photography at www.davidfreund.com.au

A little while back while in the middle of a stock photography photoshoot in Sydney, I was approached by a man who can best be described as a boofhead (rugby league jumper, overweight, long very greasy hair, etc). At first I didn’t catch what he said to me and had to ask him to repeat himself. The second time I heard him clearly but was surprised and asked him to say it a third time. His aggressively toned question was, “Did you just take a photo of my daughter?”.

The rest of the conversation went like this:

Me: “No, and why would I want to?”
Him: “Well I heard your machine there going and you had better not be taking photos of my daughter. So what were you taking photos of.”
Me: “This bloke, he’s a model”, as I pointed to the subject of my photography. Then I made a quick comment along the lines of ‘it’s a public place and I can take photos of whatever I want’ and walked away. No use arguing with an idiot, all you get is two idiots.

The thing that irritated me most about this guy was how I was clearly taking photos in that spot and he brought his daughter over and deliberately stood smack bang in my background – and then accused me of doing something he thought was sinister.

Because of attitudes like this and increasing bureaucratic restrictions on photographers, there is going to be a rally in Sydney at 10.00am on Sunday August 29th at Campbells Cove. I can’t get to the rally, but if you can more details can be found here.

Come and see me next weekend (August 1st) at the Invercauld House Wedding Expo in Lismore. I’ll have my photobooth up and running for you to have some fun photos taken. It can be hired for weddings, functions, parties, corporate events, Christmas parties, school formals – whatever. You can see more details here.

This ad will be in a weddings feature in the Northern Rivers Echo and you can see more of my work on my website at www.davidfreund.com.au

As a photographer I love to push the boundaries, try out new things and go against the grain of trends. Everywhere you look at the moment it is 3D this and 3D that. Not for me. I’ve been doing some experimental photography with inverse panoramas. That’s taking a 3D object like a sphere, and photographing the whole thing so it can appear on a flat page in it’s entirety.

The technique itself has been around for many years as slit-scan photography but I am trying some digital techniques to produce the effect. Here’s an almost 360 degree view of a model’s head in one image.

Don’t forget to tune in to Australian Story tonight to see the amazing tale of a bride whose wedding I photographed after she was blown up in the middle east