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Portrait Photography in Stirling – Musician Robbie Leeson

Monday, December 5, 2011 Category : Portraits

Portrait Photography in Stirling with Alan Hutchison Photography

Band Photography or Music Photography is an area of portrait photography that I’ve always thought would be good fun – working alongside another creative where the prime objective is to come up with something cool sounds like a lot of fun.

I had a taste of this genre of portrait photography a few months ago when musician Robbie Leeson contacted me to do one of our Street Fashion Photoshoots in Stirling.  As is obvious from the photographs Robbie is a Saxophonist and he wanted some cool images that would resemble the typical kind of images that you would find on a rock band’s album cover.   I’ve featured some of the photographs from this shoot before on my blog, but I thought it deserved a blog post of its own.

So with the brief in hand I headed off to meet Robbie to do some portrait photography in Stirling. We met at Forthside in Stirling which is one of my favourite shooting locations in Central Scotland for this type of work. Forthside is the new part of Stirling that the local council are developing (very slowly I might add) to extend the City Centre across the rail tracks and closer to the River Forth.

Most of these photographs were taken using off-camera flash triggered by the fabulous RadioPopper system, and we were very lucky to have some fabulous sunlight creating a great “ray” effect under the new Stirling bridge.

As a Scottish Wedding Photographer I’m known for my style of contemporary and “cool” wedding photographs, so it was nice to extend that style out of the wedding photography arena.

Thanks Robbie and the best of success in your music career.

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If you are interested in an on-location photoshoot or contemporary fashion portrait shoot, or even a modelling portfolio – give me a call on 01259 210299 or contact me here. We also have a very special offer on at the moment for a Fashion Photoshoot that also makes a fantastic Christmas Gift idea.

To Contact us about your Wedding or Portrait Photography Requirements, please give us a call on 01259 210299 or complete our contact form. Want to see more? You can view our Portfolio here.


by Alan

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January 21, 2012 - 6:33 pm

George - Awesome images Alan. Love the light placement on the first one to get that shadow. :D

Wedding Photography Edinburgh – The Corn Exchange – Lynsey and John

Friday, December 2, 2011 Category : WeddingsVenue:

Wedding Photography Edinburgh – Edinburgh Corn Exchange

Edinburgh Corn Exchange is well known as a popular Venue amongst Wedding Photographers in Edinburgh as they also run a very popular Wedding Fayre.  Back in August I found myself at the Edinburgh wedding venue for the first time and I can see why it is so popular, as it is very contemporary inside with some fabulous lighting.

However, lighting like this can cause problems for photographers as it can fool your camera’s sensor and give very strange results.

In such circumstances wedding photographers have two options – cancel out the ambient lighting buy using flash – thereby providing your own lighting OR capture the ambient lighting, but you then run the risk of colour inconsistencies.

I would personally never use flash in a Wedding Ceremony situation as it is extremely obtrusive, so my choice would always be to capture the ambient light. So how do I ensure I get accurate colour results when you have “mood lighting” that renders a scene almost totally purple?

Fortunately I am always well prepared for such situations as I use the X-Rite Colour Checker Passport system to ensure I can get accurate colour reproduction no matter what the lighting conditions. The camera captures an image of the colour checker passport and when back at base I run the image through some software to calibrate the camera to those exact lighting conditions – it works extremely well and has saved me from hours of trying to correct colour correction due to a strange lighting mix at a venue.

Today’s event at Edinburgh Corn Exchange was the Wedding of Lynsey and John Deans – we started at Lynsey’s parents house on the outskirts of Edinburgh, before heading into the City Centre. Edinburgh Corn Exchange lends itself to some very contemporary wedding photography and Lynsey and John were great to work with, so I had great fun exploring the back alleys behind the venue looking for a different take on a Wedding Photography image – Lynsey and John “dared to be different” and as a result ended up with some stunning wedding photographs that made it into our Weddings with WOW showreel and have also been featured in some of our advertising.

Thank you Lynsey and John for being such a fabulous couple to work with on your Wedding Day. Here are some of my favourite Wedding Photography images from the day:-

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To Contact us about your Wedding or Portrait Photography Requirements, please give us a call on 01259 210299 or complete our contact form. Want to see more? You can view our Portfolio here.


by Alan

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December 2, 2011 - 11:40 pm

Jean - Beautiful lighting and tones, and what a lovely couple!

December 3, 2011 - 3:45 pm

Kerry dickson - What a beautiful setting and a very attractive couple who obviously were having a great day! The photos were brilliant.

December 4, 2011 - 10:44 pm

ALMA - Love the orange door/wall backdrop! good work.

December 5, 2011 - 1:39 am

kit - Beautiful images! Love that shot in front of the orange and red wall! And that ceremony is beautiful and unique with the “sails” and starry background.

December 6, 2011 - 1:55 pm

Jason Lloyd - Beautiful work Alan, that orange door was made for you!! :)

December 6, 2011 - 6:02 pm

Andy Moss - Very cute couple. Simple yet wonderful images. Really lovely.

Weddings at Lochgreen House Hotel – Jacqueline and David

Friday, December 2, 2011 Category : WeddingsVenue:

Weddings at Lochgreen House Hotel – Jacqueline and David

Another of our favourite Scottish Wedding Venues this year has got to be Lochgreen House Hotel in Troon. It’s a joy to photograph Weddings at Lochgreen House Hotel as it’s an absolutely gorgeous hotel with some lovely gardens for capturing some really wonderful wedding photographs.

We found ourselves back in Troon for another Wedding at Lochgreen House in mid-September for the Wedding of Jacqueline and David Hay. This wedding proved to be doubly exciting as the bride and groom also asked if we could take a few Wedding Photographs on the beach! Now when we think of Wedding Photography in Scotland, we think mountains, glens, castles and bonnie purple heather. (That’s the plant not the Bride!). Not many Wedding Photographers in Scotland get a chance to take wedding photographs on a beach in Scotland, so we jumped at the opportunity! The wedding party donned their wellies and off we went down to Troon Beach. It was a very grey day, with a wee bit of a cold breeze off the sea but thankfully no rain.

The fun started earlier in the day with Jacqui and her bridesmaids in their Lochgreen Hotel room getting ready, where we can safely say the bride was man-handled into her beautiful lace up dress (Jacqui will know exactly what we mean!). Everyone was perspiring profusely getting the pesky laces to stay straight and make sure it was tight enough, including the two make up artists and the photographer (Morag not Alan)!

It was a very informal Humanist Wedding Ceremony where the cheeky chap Steven Bunch (Bunchie) was mentioned a few times as he was responsible for firing the cupid’s arrow which first brought Jacqueline and David together 6 years ago.

Jacqui and David asked us to bring along a “photo booth” for later in the evening and I’m delighted to say that everyone had loads of fun striking all sorts of poses and pulling some weird faces!

Oh and one last thing…. I’ll never forget the 15 EXTREMELY LOUD confetti bombs that went off AFTER the group photograph in the gardens. The Bride and Groom got such a fright they nearly landed in Prestwick and Alan nearly got blown off the roof but managed to stagger back in time to get a couple of shots.

What a fantastic wedding!

As usual here are our favourite photographs from Jacqui and David’s Wedding at LochGreen House Hotel:-

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To Contact us about your Wedding or Portrait Photography Requirements, please give us a call on 01259 210299 or complete our contact form. Want to see more? You can view our Portfolio here.


by Morag

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December 3, 2011 - 2:58 pm

Bec - Beautiful set! Love the big group shot, and the first bride and groom image on the beach is great!

December 5, 2011 - 7:35 am

kong wai - great set .. nice color and composition

December 6, 2011 - 6:06 pm

Andy Moss - Wonderful location Alan. Love the group shot and the confetti bombs. The black and white beach shot is very well done.

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