Wedding

This Film features a funky slide show of some of Mark Cleghorn's wedding photography. The images have been chosen to help photographers on a wedding day to get a quick fix of ideas. and to get the creative juices going before they leave.

This is a 5 minute 41 second Wedding slide show to inspire ideas as well as to give you image goals for the day.

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This training film is designed to improve you Photoshop skills by showing you how Mark Cleghorn uses the programme to design unique wedding albums for his clients with some great PS tips along the way.

Taken from his training DVD Album Design Using Photoshop - The guide to successful wedding album design, you will get to see from the setting up of a page layout, making actions to automate the work-flow as well as techniques on adding colour to black and white images.

Part 2 includes -Selecting, Crop to set size, Make Tool Preset, using F Keys, Auto Select Layer, Guides, Workflow, Transform, Adding a Key line, Making Action.

Wow what a location and only a billboard style of hording as a background, right in the heart of the city and there is nothing classical about this part of his Location Location session. With one of his real life Bride and Grooms Mark shows how even under weather problems of wind sun and rain he copes to bring energy and fun not forgetting shooting some colour dominant images.

All the kit comes out on this session from super wide, mid range Tele to the big one as he works up close to the couple as well as from the other side of the street. The shoot is that exciting there was even a car crash, which of course is on film. The shoot really shows how he can control a subject to do what he wants, even at a great distance to get the animation and excitement in the pose he demands.

Back -2 - Basics that's what it is! The second part of Mark Cleghorn's Posing the Bride and Groom - The Basics.
In this film Mark concentrates first of all on the Bride and then brings back the groom, so not to feel left out. The Bride section looks at the full length pose in detail explaining that the image always starts at the feet and follows up the body to the eyes, running through the essential poses including sat down. When Mark brings the couple back together he start with the hands and the basics of getting them right. Finally showing how to bring so motion to the images by using the veil.

Covers - Bride Pose, Bride and Groom Sat, Hands, Animating the pose.

Back -2 - Basics with no apologies as this 2 part film takes the bride and groom posing back to the start, which is of course the feet.
Based on his best selling wedding photography book Mark Cleghorn shows how to animate both the bride and groom quickly to get the sell able shots in the bag first.

In this film Mark concentrates first of all on the couple and the basic stance, how to hold a posy bouquet or a over arm arrangement. Then concentrating on the groom from full length to sat down.

Covers - Basic Bride & Groom Pose and stance, Groom full length to sat down.

Part 4 of the Confetti & Lace III DVD sees Mark Cleghorn shooting the bride and Groom as they arrive at the reception. From location to location Mark speed poses the couple to some exciting images including a garage door and climbing rose covered gate, hows that for chalk and cheese. This film includes the Bride and Groom, Bridal Portraits, Split groups, the Groom all with classic and candid animation

This Part of the Confetti & Lace 5 part film - Real and RAW is the only way to explain this type of training as you get to see how a working photographer copes under the pressures of a real wedding day, nothing fake here, as even the images have only been touched by camera RAW in conversion, so no fancy Photoshop work in this film.

Shooting around the city scape of Cardiff, this film in one of the four parts of a Location Location session with one of Mark Cleghorn's Real life Bride & Grooms. An underpass of a motorway is the choice for this location stop, which is a perfect shelter from rain but a nightmare for wind as you will see. The images you see him shoot in his Real and Raw way, in other words there is no Photoshop seen here as these are images literally out of the can, or at least the camera.

This film demonstrates how Mark uses a variety of lens choice from a 12mm to a 200mm all to produce different images, the long lens to crush the background focus the super wide to distort. You get to see also how the variety is achieved through different camera angles, as well as the power of a reflector even on a windy day. The end of the film also sees his quantum flash units out of the bag to compensate for the over hang of the motorway, pushing himself, kit and his assistant to the limit as he shoots over and over again great images and all in a time restraint.

This film is an introduction to using CS4 Adobe Bridge and Camera RAW for editing images, re-naming, colour correction and basic image enhancement. In other words doing most of the work before even touching Photoshop.

Bridge and Camera RAW part 1 - covers the basic window and layouts, edditing, deleting, workflow and re-naming the files with speed

Part 5

The Last Part of the DVD sees Mark Cleghorn shooting everything from the wedding groups, to drinks, speeches, as well as the first dance not forgetting a few more of the couple with off camera flash before they sit down to dinner.

Real and RAW is the only way to explain this type of training as you get to see how a working photographer copes under the pressures of a real wedding day, nothing fake here, as even the images have only been touched by camera RAW in conversion, so no fancy Photoshop work in this film.

Part 3

This Part of the Confetti & Lace 5 part film shows Mark Cleghorn at the church shooting the arrivals of the groom, groomsmen, guests, bridesmaids and bride along with Bridal groups before and after the ceremony. Mark Cleghorn demonstrates his secrets of interaction with the bridal party and guest as we as his variety in a limited time slot.

Real and RAW is the only way to explain this type of training as you get to see how a working photographer copes under the pressures of a real wedding day, nothing fake here, as even the images have only been touched by camera RAW in conversion, so no fancy Photoshop work in this film.