Hayley and Aram's Wedding

Another day where the sky was a bit threatening and it did rain. Luckily the rain held off until we made it to the reception. The ceremony was a small church in Westbourne Park and the reception was at the Glandore Community Centre.

Here's a few photos from the day. We had plenty of time and visited Veale Gardens, Art Alley and Pinky Flat.

 Camera Settings  ISO - 1250   Shutter Speed - 1/500   F-Stop - 2.8    Focal Length - 70mm

 Camera Settings  ISO - 1600   Shutter Speed - 1/160   F-Stop - 5    Focal Length - 38mm

Veale Gardens

 Camera Settings  ISO - 200   Shutter Speed - 1/800   F-Stop - 8    Focal Length - 24mm

Art Alley

 Camera Settings  ISO - 320   Shutter Speed - 1/100   F-Stop - 5.6    Focal Length - 24mm

Art Alley

 Camera Settings  ISO - 200   Shutter Speed - 1/200   F-Stop - 2.8    Focal Length - 70mm

Art Alley

 Camera Settings  ISO - 200   Shutter Speed - 1/1250   F-Stop - 2.8    Focal Length - 98mm

Art Alley

 Camera Settings  ISO - 200   Shutter Speed - 1/160   F-Stop - 5.6   Focal Length - 70mm

Pinky Flat

 Camera Settings  ISO - 320   Shutter Speed - 1/80   F-Stop - 5.6    Focal Length - 14mm

Pinky Flat

 Camera Settings  ISO - 320   Shutter Speed - 1/2500   F-Stop - 2.8    Focal Length - 15mm

Pinky Flat

 Camera Settings  ISO - 320   Shutter Speed - 1/800   F-Stop - 5.6    Focal Length - 14mm

Pinky Flat

 Camera Settings  ISO - 320   Shutter Speed - 1/800   F-Stop - 6.3    Focal Length - 14mm

Pinky Flat

 Camera Settings  ISO - 320   Shutter Speed - 1/1000   F-Stop - 6.3    Focal Length - 14mm

Congratulations to Hayley and Aram.

If you would like to talk to us about your wedding check out our website at http://www.ctrphotos.com/

David and Hayley's Wedding

David and Hayley were married on the 2nd of March and I was lucky enough to be their photographer for the day.


The weather looked a bit threatening at times on the day but no rain arrived to spoil the day.
The lovely couple held their ceremony at Westminster College and then the reception at the Seacliff beach hotel. Photos were taken at Westminster and at seacliff.

Congrats to David and Hayley!!!!

The detail on Hayley's beautiful dress

Camera settings ISO - 1000     Shutter speed - 1/100  F Stop - 3.2  Focal Length - 38mm 

The beautiful Hayley

Camera settings   ISO - 2000   Shutter speed - 1/80   F Stop - 2.8   Focal Length - 34mm

The Ceremony Location - Westminster College

Camera settings   ISO - 400   Shutter speed - 1/1000   F Stop - 9   Focal Length - 24mm

My Favourite of the happy couple taken at Westminster

Camera settings   ISO - 400   Shutter speed - 1/125   F Stop - 2.8   Focal Length - 24mm

The view at dinner time

Camera settings   ISO - 400   Shutter speed - 1/6400   F Stop - 11   Focal Length - 70mm

The Standout of the day, taken about 10 minutes after the sun had dipped below the horizon, the lighting comes from my portable 100w spotlight, a similar effect could be achieved with flash. I love this photo as we catch the last moments of sunlight left in the sky in the background and we happened to catch the first star of the night just above them.

Camera settings ISO - 2000 Shutter speed - 1/125 F Stop - 3.2 Focal Length - 24mm

Day Time Workshops

Have been enjoying the chance to meet so many people and to help arming them the info to take their cameras out of automatic with our day time workshops. People always seemed to be amazed by the small amount of things shown to them in photoshop, especially content aware!!!

Again if you havent seen the deal for this on scoopon you are still welcome to attend at the discounted price of $39, just get in touch and book in.

Here's a small selection of photos from the workshops, if you've attended send us some through and we will post them here.

Most important camera settings

The following are the four main settings which affect how your photograph will turn out.

Shutter speed – Is the length of time that the cameras shutter will stay open to allow light into the sensor.


Aperture – Controls the amount of the image that will be in sharp focus or depth of field and in combination with the shutter speed controls the amount of light allowed to the cameras sensor. The lower the F number the less depth within your image will be in focus.

ISO – Is the film speed rating similar to ASA ratings which were on 35mm film. The higher the ISO the more light is allowed into the cameras sensor, however the higher the ISO the more noise or grain will appear in the final image, where possible it is advisable to keep this setting at 200 or lower to avoid any significant issues with noise.

White balance – White will appear different under different types of light, the setting compensates for the type of light source so that white will appear white and the colour tone of your photo will appear correct.

Night Time Workshops

Recently ran our popular night time workshop through Scoopon, unfortunately the response was a little lower than we had hoped for. Seems that a lot of people just didnt see it, well at least thats the feedback I've been receiving through the people attending the day time workshops.


If you missed it and would like to attend you are welcome to book into one of the workshops at the same price as the scoopon offer of $39. Just let me know if you would like to attend.

The Night workshops have been going really well and its great to see people gaining more confidence in tackling the dark so to speak. Always great to see people reactions to light painting and zooming.

Here's a few photos taken at the workshops

If you have attended one of the workshops, have some fun and share your images, simply email them to me at sales@ctrphotos.com and I'll post them here for all to see :-)