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Wedding: Wokefield Park – Lydia and Matt – The Video

Alex — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:45:18 +0000

Here’s a quick video from Lydia and Matt’s wedding at Wokefield park. Awesomesauce…

Alex

Weddings: Two Thousand and Ten – What a year.

Alex — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:18:32 +0000

Wedding: St Margarets Church and The Garden Barn – Claire and Will

Alex — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:25:57 +0000

Wedding: DoubleTree by Hilton, Cambridge – Jennie and James

Alex — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:03:58 +0000

If there’s one cardinal rule of wedding photography it’s got to be “don’t get the bride wet”. At most weddings the bride is up at the crack of dawn and spends literally hours perfecting hair, makeup and everything else to make herself look stunning on the wedding day. Jennie was no exception: she got up early, had a great morning laughing and giggling getting ready with the bridesmaids, she made sure her wedding photographer got covered in glitter and above all else looked really fab for the wedding. I knew the rule, I’ve always stuck by the rule, except this time I failed.

We went out for a nice wander just as the weather had cleared from earlier rain and found some awesome locations around Cambridge. Just as we stopped by the side entrance to Kings College I felt a raindrop hit my cheek. I thought nothing of it, we were getting some really great pictures… but then it happened, the heavens opened. I have to say I must be the luckiest wedding photographer in the world: I got soaked, my gear got drenched, both Jennie and James looked like they’d been for a swim in the river, the only comment I got though was “ah I really needed to cool down”. Wow, thanks guys you are some seriously cool customers!

So there we go, I came clean. I have to say despite the rain ‘incident’ I had a real blast and I think everybody else did as well. Had one of the funnest CrazyBooth’s to date with lots of people rocking it out. Don’t think I can say any more than thanks guys, from the moment we shot your engagement shoot earlier in the year I knew it was going to be fun and, well, it lived up to expectations. So much so that instead of my normal photo blog post I thought I’d start with a video slideshow. Enjoy!

More adventures soon (hopefully without the rain)

Alex

Wedding: John and Emily – The Video

Alex — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:19:01 +0000

Photo shootout: The video

Alex — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:39:43 +0000

Forty Models, Photographers and makeup artists, one amazing site, one amazing day.

Packing for Mongolia now. More adventures soon!

Alex

Wedding: Alana and David Video

Alex — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:54:18 +0000

So I’ve been working on Alana and David’s wedding album and website recently. The good news is the website is now finished and I’ve just put together this little video slideshow for them as well. Enjoy!

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More adventures soon,
Alex

Wedding: Susannah and Tom Slideshow

Alex — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:04:25 +0000

So just before my weekend goes all manic I thought I’d put up this slideshow I put together from Susannah and Tom’s wedding earlier this year.

It’s a format I’m experimenting with so feel free to let me know what you think in the comments!

[flashvideo filename="../videos/sue.flv" volume=80 width=640 image="../../../../blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/AlexBeckett_5087._DSC2423_SusannahTom.jpg" height=360 exactfit /]

More adventures to come!

Alex

Wedding: My year so far…

Alex — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:56:47 +0000

So it’s been a busy year for me with weddings! Well I’ve had a couple of weeks off recently so I thought I’d put together a quick video of the year so far. Enjoy!

[flashvideo filename="../videos/2009.f4v" volume=80 width=640 image="../../../../blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/AlexBeckett_5087._DSC2423_SusannahTom.jpg" height=360 exactfit /]

More adventures to come!

Alex

Techie: Importing D90, D300s and D3s dmovie video into Premiere Pro

Alex — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:46:34 +0000

Edit: Apparently this also works on the D300s and the D3s! Feel free to share your experiences in the comments.
Edit2 -The non-techie way… OK this subject appears to get an awful lot of attention and some people are having problems following all the steps/not liking using the terminal. As such I’ve decided to be nice to you all and package up an automator script which does all the heavy lifting for you. No need to use the Terminal with this method. Check out the method section for details.

So this is the first of a couple of techie posts to my blog. I know, I know you all come here for the pictures of Orcs but hey this is my way of helping other professional photographers save a bit of time and hair pulling.

The D90 is a Nikon camera used by Holly and myself which allows the recording of HD video. What makes it special is the fact that it has a large sensor and can use any nikon lens, this in turn means you can get truly cinema like depth of feel. If you don’t have a D90 and Premier, I suggest you bail out now, else..

The D90 unfortunately shoots a bit of a bizarre format which premiere claims is an unsupported compression type. However it lies! Thanks to Jean-Luc for helping me to figure it out but I think the main problem is that Premiere is an old Carbon based application and can’t quite understand the D90 file type.

Method1: The non techie way:

Download your movies as per normal and place them in a directory on their own
Download this zip file
Extract both files to your /Application directory (Note that SetFile must be in this directory or else the script won’t work)
Double click to run SetFileApp
Select the directory with all your D90 movies in it which need to be changed
Profit!

Method2: For those who like the gory details:

Download the movies as you normally would and make a note of where you’ve stored them.
Either install the Mac Developer tools or visit this page to download the setfile application
Fire up the Terminal application (yes I know this is scary and I may try and automate this for people in the future…)
if you downloaded setfile rather than installing the developer tools, cd into the directory where is it located eg: cd downloads/setfile – tip: if you press tab twice the terminal will autocomplete things for you!
In the terminal run this command to set the correct file type SetFile -t "VfW " pathtofolderwithyourmovies/*.AVI eg (SetFile -t "VfW " movies/test/*.AVI)
In the terminal again run this command to rename the files to .mov: rename -v 's/\.AVI$/\.mov/' pathtofolderwithyourmovies/*.AVI
You should find all of your movies have now been renamed to .mov and will now all open in premier!

So there you go, that’s how you open D90 movies in premier for editing. If anybody has any problems hit me up in the comments.

Alex