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Holly and Stephen’s Wedding

PK-kelman — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:46:53 +0000

PK did the photography for the lovely Holly and her new husband at their wedding last month. Although the day was a bit grey and the light at Strathallan castle in the wrong place, we managed to get some good photos. This was helped by the couple being very photogenic and chilled out, a pleasure to shoot. So here’s a selection of the photos we took regardless of wedged cars, bus drivers needing to get back for the school run and the occasional rain shower!

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The happy couple outside the reception venue

The exchange of rings

Parents of the bride

Scottish Dancing

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Charity Skydive

PK-kelman — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:13:48 +0000

I was asked to shoot my friends’ daughter skydive, the brave woman. We turned up early in the hope she would be first, but ended up she went last! The nerves were starting to kick in so to fill in the time until her jump we went to nearby Leslie, where we had a wee bit to eat in a small cafe with no public toilet (not sure that is legal!). Anyway the charity this was all in the aid of was SANDS (stillborn and neonatal death charity- yes I know that spells sandc). I great cause and a cause close to their hearts. After some training and a lot of joking form the great staff at the base at fife airport (didn’t get the name of the actual company, sorry) it was up up and away, raising about £1000 for the charity. Well done, great job!

Even the Staff were Scared by the outfit

Going Down

Up Amongst the Clouds

Proud Walk Now Back on the Ground

Beautiful Perth keeping Perth Beautiful

PK-kelman — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:06:41 +0000

The Weather has been pretty horrid and I’ve not really been able to go out much with the camera due to snow, sleet, hail and rain with only the very occasional spells of sunshine. However the lovely Beautiful Perth people were going to do a scheduled litter pick regardless and had asked me to come and take a few photos for them to show the work they do. I meet them at the Bridgend car park and followed them through the rain as they worked hard and kept smiling. It was quite surprising how much litter there was, including needles and a rather old Marathon bar wrapper (remember them, they turned into Snickers 15 or 20 years ago!). It really is quite disgusting that people can have so little consideration and respect for everyone else. Is it really that hard to use a bin or take your litter home?? Well here’s the photos to show what some very nice people will do in order to clean up after the inconsiderate people in this world. I will also like to point out that all these people are volunteers and do not get paid a penny for looking after this city.

The Beautiful Perth team and the litter they collected in roughly 50 mins

Hard at Work

Scanning her Domain

Even the bushes were cleaned up

TV Filming at Plant Nursery

PK-kelman — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:26:11 +0000

The nice people at Beautiful Perth asked us to take photos at a filming for a TV gardening programme (which at the moment we are not allowed to name) at a local plant nursery. It was a lovely sunny, warm day and we were let into, then locked in the poly-tunnels while a school class were filmed planting seeds. This was all in relation to Queens jubilee (like I care!) and that Perth has been given city status (not that I understand what difference that makes!). Anyhow the film crew basically was made up of a man with a Camera and his assistant that hovered around in the background.

Filming in the poly-tunnel

Watching the camera instead of the Teacher!

The youth grow team, who do some of the plant arrangements around Perth (including the glass butterfly at the library), were also there and involved in the filming. I managed to catch up with them before they were in front of the TV camera, when they were planting sends and tending to the young trees. As I had to go to work I didn’t have the opportunity to capture them when they were being filmed. We did then have to escape the compound, as they hadn’t unlocked the gate for us, we had to sneak through the gap. Strangely the focus was all on the kids and filming and we were forgotten!!! SIGH! Hard life being just a photographer.

Youth grow preparing for the spring

Planting seeds

Forth Bridge Illumination

PK-Potter — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:37:27 +0000

The Forth Bridge has been lit up once again after 2 years in the dark. Switching the 1,054 floodlights back on will coincide with the 122nd anniversary of the opening of the bridge – one of the largest floodlit structures in the world!

This last image is HDR – 2 shots of different exposures are combined.

So another night shoot and another night with too many men and their dodgey conversations! The view, unlike the men, was lovely and tranquil. Was great to see the bridge in it’s glory again. No scaffold, new long lasting paint and well lit up. This time Ian didn’t decide to leave his bag of expensive camera gear on the beach (just as well really as the tide was very much in) and in fact left his bag in the car to be on the safe side!!!

Got some great shots and also made at least £30 in swear money, though the b*~#!**s never did pay up!

High Tide At the Pier

Lit Up and Showing off it’s Prettiness

Light Beams over the Bridge

St Andrew’s night shoot with a gaggle of photographers

PK-Potter — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:28:58 +0000

This leap year, PK could think of nothing better to do than go out to St. Andrew’s with a total of eight photographers of differrent experience levels.

When we left Perth, the moon and stars were on display but by the time we got to Dundee they were all gone again.

After a day with a good friend walking along beaches and being escorted off of one by a soldier, I joined the boys for a night shoot in St Andrews. Where I was reminded that I need to hang out with more women, as boys’ conversations can be a bit dodgy at times!!! The sky was cloudy so we went for more urban shots and did the harbour, the castle, the cathedral and a graveyard, where a POSH university man tried to move us on. Must of been my day for being moved on, though the soldier was a lot nicer!

So tripoded up it was low shutters (30 sec to 2 mins), low ISO (about 100- 400), auto white balance and F5ish. Which gave a good night time feel, except on the special, magical camera with the Q function which made it look like daytime (none of us know what Q stands for, but pretty sure it is a magical button! ) It was a good fun night and got some good shots, as hopefully did the other lot!

The Castle from the harbour

The Graveyard where the Uni man tried to get rid of us!