Martin Crombie Wedding Photography

Personal Work - SWPP June Entries

A few weeks ago I shot a few very quick landscapes on the Wales coast.
Debbie has relations over that way so we went over to Colywn Bay & Llandudno on a very grey and overcast day...god I love PShop. 
Here's 1 of the images I have worked on for 30 minutes or so for the SWPP landscape category. 

UPDATE : 1 SILVER IN WEDDING CONTEMPORARY

 
I love my veg and equally love studying their unique forms - this time asparagus. A straight shot.  

The garden gloves received 'the treatment' this time.
Laid out on the Vetch (i think it is called) - a beautiful orange and yellow flower in my front garden.
The colour has been enhanced in PShop. No flash just daylight.   
  

I call this 1 Alice in Wonderland - The mind boggles on this perspective like a maze.
This image has been shot very quickly we had approx 10 minutes shot at 1600asa leaning over the bannisters to see everything.
Again plenty of Photoshop work making use of red/ blue strong primary colour combinations. 
  

The Wedding of Sharon & Craig @ The Swan Hotel, Newby Bridge, South Lakes

 The Swan Hotel, Newby Bridge, South Lakeland



 

Sharon & her girls & below The 'Sunflower'
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
   

 
     
 

 

 

 
 
     

          
 
Work it girl!
 
 
 

    
 

SWPP May Awards 2011

This month I submitted a selection of images ranging from Landscape to Wedding and also set up some still-life sets involving various articles I find when out shopping.
SWPP stands for The Society of Wedding & Portrait Photographers and is a UK based organisation with entries from all over UK/ Europe.
 
1x GOLD WINNER - OPEN Category


 
This image was all about the arrangement of the Cep mushrooms (from the Bolete group of edibles).
I was always fascinated with mushrooms and have photographed many kinds in the wild over the years maninly within forests. Obviously these have been photographed inside using natural daylight + Canon 5D on a tabletop.
  
3x SILVER WINNERS - Contemporary Portraiture

 
This was taken in a building using a silhouette and I loved the window shapes.

I also won 2 other silvers within the wedding category, which you may remember helped me to win overall 2nd in last years Mario Acerboni awards.
 
1 of my overall favourities only received a bronze below - go figure. Taken at Llandudno, Wales
 

See all the winners 

The Wedding of Claire & Karl @ The Wychwood Hotel, Crewe, Cheshire

The Wychwood Park Hotel in Crewe was my port of call for Claire Broxton and Karl Kerman's big wedding day. Having photographed Claire as a bridesmaid at her brother wedding at The Low-Wood Hotel, Windermere a few years previously - it was nice to be re-united again. 

         

A silhouette of Karl on the chair.

 

Some really beautiful interior design in this hotel which I took advantage of before the speeches.
Using a lowel ilight above to pick out Claire and place Karl under the spot lights agaisnt the wall.
I was looking for a kind of a clean advertising look here.
The people provide a scale - the variation of the design & colours are enough to make the image work without a strong pose.
 

 

or black & white version -cool huh? A surrealist type image where the realism has been taken out & exchanged with just a chair on the tee-ing off area & a triangle like composition. Shot at F3.5 125asa with a plastic 50mm lens 1.8 on a Canon 5D 
Claire & her mum
 
Claire on the bed post production effects - art deco/scratched look to go with the pattern on the dress.
 
  
 
  
 
 

   
 
      
 
   

  
 
 
 
      

   

A beautiful cake & look at the test tube - wonderful touch of creativity!