In this film you get to see a location location shoot of a winter wedding bride and groom, the Location Location session is a part of the couples wedding package and shot as soon after the wedding as possible. On a freezing night shoot Mark moves quickly through a variety of areas at a fun fair location including the Carousel, a Fun Fair Stall, at the edge of the Ice Rink andfinally using the Big Wheel as a backdrop.

Using both natural light and off camera flash, which today is the Quantum units, he shoots a variety of images to bring movement and a fun but romantic atmosphere to the photographs, in a quick succession of posing and locations in his usual real and raw manner, perfect on a freezing cold December night.

Unusually for Mark’s Phototraining4U films you get to see the finished proof images after post production. The images have a pre-set applied using the onOne PhotoTools plug-in Software for Photoshop, the pre-set gives a soft grainy glow.

Real and RAW is the only way to explain this type of wedding training by Mark Cleghorn, 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 Photoshop, just conversion from RAW to jpeg with some of the images selected to Black & White.

The forth part of Confetti & Lace IV features the group photography both inside for the informal drinks reception and the posed groups. When shooting inside you can see how Mark uses and assistant to control the flash position to illuminate the subjects as well as to help lift the light in the scene. In contrast the posed groups, which are never ending are shot outside in the bright sunlight andback-lit whilst using some off camera flash to help illuminate the subjects and control contrast.

Real and RAW is the only way to explain this type of wedding training by Mark Cleghorn, 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 Photoshop, just conversion from RAW to jpeg with some of the images selected to Black & White.

In this the third part of Confetti & Lace IV you see Mark Cleghorn shooting the bride and groom, the images that shot are posed on the board walk and feature a white wall and deep blue Sky’s on a sunny day, which is a great contemporary backdrop for any photographer. You will get to see how Mark remote controls the pose from a distance and interacts for the right expression between the couple and photographer.

Real and RAW is the only way to explain this type of wedding training by Mark Cleghorn, 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 Photoshop, just conversion from RAW to jpeg with some of the images selected to Black & White.

In the second part of Confetti & Lace IV you see Mark Cleghorn at the church orchestrating the pre ceremony photographs of the groom and his groomsmen, as well as how he interacts with the guests to get some posed and unposed candid shots. The film starts in the church with Mark shooting the groom and best man with natural light and then follows through the ceremony and registers, then finally the bride and groom leaving for the reception after being pelted by confetti.

Real and RAW is the only way to explain this type of wedding training by Mark Cleghorn, 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 noPhotoshop, just conversion from RAW to jpeg with some of the images selected to Black & White.

The first part of Confetti & Lace IV is shot at the hotel were the bride and her bridesmaids are getting ready, its also the same hotel where the wedding reception will be held later in the day. You get to see MarkCleghorn’s fast pace wedding photography and how he interacts with the bride and her bridesmaids when getting ready and how he shoots the details, candid as well as the informal and posed Bride & Bridesmaids images.

This Film features a funky slide show of a Male Portrait Session by Mark Cleghorn’s, the images are all from the one session, featuring images from the 2hr shoot, which was a 1hr in studio and 1hr on location commission.

The images have been chosen to show a true representation of the session, to give you an idea of what an Actor or singer needs as a basis for their promotional material. This film is designed to help photographers on a Male portrait shoot to get a quick fix of ideas. and to get the ideas flowing before a session.

This is a 4 minute 23 second Portrait slide show to inspire ideas as well as to give you image goals for the day.

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.

This is the second part of a film of 2 young children being photographed in a woodland location, where you get to see how Mark Cleghorn uses an every day location to great effect as well as acting the fool to coax a laugh out of the children.

This film starts with a continuation of the shoot of the young brother and sister, including 2 other locations within a stones throw of the first. You get to see first hand how he can animate a subject from a distance in what some have referred to as his remote control posing. At the end of the film Mark reflects back on the session as the client leaves and discusses some basic childpsychology, or at least some working with children tips.

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 hisassistant to the limit as he shoots over and over again great images and all in a time restraint.

One of the four parts of a Location Location session with one of Mark Cleghorn’s Real life Bride & Grooms, this quickie session takes part outside one of Cardiff icon buildings The National Museum of Wales. The massive columns are a perfect stage to set the clients against for the classical section of the shoot.
This film demonstrates how Mark uses a long zoom lens to crush focus, uses architecture for controlling the lighting pattern on the subjects and once again shows the power of his amazing speed posing techniques as he flows from shot to shot.