A Beach Wedding

We love working with creatives – one day after a fashion shoot in Leeds we discussed what we could do for our next project. I wanted to do it over in Liverpool for a change and to help Denise with travel, and it grew from there into a wedding.

So the team on the day were:-

  • Me – photographer, lighting, gofer and taxi driver
  • Andy – Groom and gofer
  • Andi – Vicar, lighting and gofer
  • Denise – bride and gofer
  • Rick – film maker and yes gofer!

(gofer – someone who carries stuff around on a shoot/stage)

Lighting Kit Used

It was windy as hell, so we couldn’t use any diffusers – so the flashes just had reflectors on them.

  • Godox AD600BM * 2
  • Godox AD200 * 1

So most of the images use 3-point lighting, 2 behind ar roughly 45 degrees, and one at the front usually at 30 degrees to Denise’s face.

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We had the AD600’s in bags with cables to the flash head so they didn’t smash if they blew over – and 5KG weights as well! Can’t be too careful

Camera Kit Used

With it being wet, sandy, windy and pretty cold, I wanted to keep the lens changes to a minimum, so in the bag had :-

  • Canon 5D mark 4
  • Canon 70-200 F2.8L IS
  • Canon 16-35 F4L IS
  • Canon 24-70 F4L IS

The vast majority of the shots were with the 16-35 so I could put the flashes close to the models (it was a brightish day) to get a lot of flash without needing full flash power.

There was a 3-Stop ND Grad filter on most of the wide shots – no grad on the long shots.

Rick was there shooting away on his massive film camera, so hopefully get some moving footage to share as well

So here’s a gallery of the shots!

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