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Travel Photography | Wedding Photographer in Hannover, Germany

Perhaps my last blog post was a little too favourable to the city of Hannover. Myself and europe touring partner, Alex, went on a 12km walk the day after I wrote the last blog post and on that walk we came across what can only be desribed as the less elegant part of Hannover.

I feel the use of words to decribe it any further is pointless, as the pictures tell the story. However if I had a wider lens on me at the time, I would of shot the pictures on it to take in the scale of the graffiti. The picture of the bikes is actually outside the main entrance of a pre-school, belive it or not.

On a lighter note, this end of town is not the area we have been staying in, and for the majority my conclusion of the German people is an ethic of work hard, play hard. Which can perhaps be better explained by my previous blog post.

Again all the pictures are shot at f/1.4 on my 50mm. It´s a phase. Im sure it will pass.

-BW

Wedding Photographer in Hannover, Germany

As some of you may know, I have been stuck in Hannover, Germany for the past week. Whilst travelling from Kassel (Western Germany) towards Berlin (East Germany), we stopped in Hannover, for what was intended to be a couple hours. Seven days later we are still here. The set back has been fairly depressing in a business city with very little to do. A trip in planning for well over a year and after 4 great days on the road it all came crashing to and end beacuse of a computer fault with my van. However a couple of days ago my normal optimistic self came back and I decided to make the most of the hand I had been dealt.

My initial intention was to shoot portraits of people in Hannover, as I´m the first to admit, landscpaes, animals, street documentary, e.c.t, quickly bores me, I really like to work with people in creating pictures, and although I have got a couple portraits, which I will post at a later date, I found myself shooting thease pictures of and around a river.

All the pictures (apart from the long distance path picture) are shot at f/1.4 on my 50mm. This technique is what gives the images a slightly unique look, and of course the water reflections which would only be possible on such a flattly lit day. I returned today for another look and amongst the harsh sunlight in the woodland area the pleasing look I achieved yesterday was gone.

I hope you like, something a little differnt than my normnal stuff, just killing time in Hannover.

-BW

europe preparations

I will soon be setting off on a road trip around Europe with a good long term friend of mine (Alex) for approximately 6 weeks. We are travelling through France, Belgium, Germany, Hungay, Czech Republic and Italy. We are almost ready to go, and have everything prepared that we can think we may need. However the most indecisive thing for me to decide on was what photography kit to take. The pressure was on from the planning days over a year ago for me to sort this out, and initially I though I would just take my 5D mark 2 and a 50mm 1.4. Sorted…or not ? After thinking about it I realised I had an opportunity here to really do something a little different. After much deliberation with friends and myself in particular I have opted to leave all my pro digital kit behind and instead take my 35mm Canon 1N film body and 30 roles of film.

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a wedding near the beach

in the home

South West Wargames Airsoft Photographer Devon & Cornwall

A company I associate myself a lot with in terms of picture content as well as personal enjoyment is that of South West Wargames. Over the past year or more I have shot a lot of images for South West Wargames, anything from Facebook pictures to website content and promotion. However a new experience for me was having my work printed on their transit van recently.

The two pictures used for the Van are shown here along with the finished product on the Van. If you live in the South West keep your eyes out for it. – YOU CAN’T MISS IT!

On a note of personal enjoyment; if you want a day packed with laughter, team building and tactics, at a much more affordable rate than paintball then check out www.swwargames.co.uk.

Shot at 200mm using the sun to backlight the subjects.

Shot in my portable studio – using a smoke machine borrowed from a local DJ.