Wedding photography for Birmingham, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and The Cotswolds
Hello there,
This week Sarah popped in to visit with me, Sarah is a good friend and has two beautiful little boys, it only seems like a few weeks ago I was shooting baby James’s newborn portraits and got one of my all time favorites – this one
Well baby James is just knocking on the door of being 1 years old, so cake in for his First Birthday Portrait session with his big brother.
Here is baby James
and his big brother – Jack
and the brothers together !
WOW they grow up so quickly !!!!
Ciao
dp
Hello there
A few days late but working like a crazy man at the moment,
here is the photo of the week, its from the wedding of Rosie and Jason I shot last year with a photographer friend of mine, it was my first wedding back after my surgery so is kind of special. I have been talking to Rosie this week so thought it was a good picture to choose.
I actually shot this from inside my Jeep after I drove the couple into a field.
Enjoy.
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Hey there,
Quick sneak peek today, I just got back from an engagement session at the amazing Dumbleton Hall nr Tewkesbury in Worcestershire. Katie and Martin are getting married at Dumbleton Hall later this year so we chose the venue as the perfect venue for the engagement shoot. Half joking but half seriously Katie had let me know she was becoming a bit of a blog stalker and could not stop smiling at the thought of seeing her photos on the blog, so with this in mind, I quickly grabbed a few – although I have not looked them in detail yet and edited them quickly to pop up on the website.
We were very fortunate that the weather held for us, so here you go
hope you have enjoyed !
ciao
dp
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Hello there,
Still catching up, so a few weeks ago I shot the engagement session of Sali and Craig in beautiful Mid Wales as a stunning venue called – Caer Beris Manor Hotel
I was assisted on the day by Tom Astley who had come down to help me out on the wedding the day before which took place in Pembrokeshire, so we stopped overnight and called into Caer Beris on the way home and me up with the couple. Since i had Tom with me I got to play a little more with off camera lighting that I normally get to on Engagement Sessions.
We wanted to take full advantage of the grounds and some of the features of the venue, The couple are getting married at Caer Beris in a couple of months so this was a great dummy run to see what would work and not.
Sali may look a little familiar to some of you as she was a bridesmaid from a wedding I shot around 2 years ago.
Enjoy.
happy couple at Caer Beris Manor Hotel
Again thanks to Sali and Craig and thanks to Tom who helped out on the day – you can visit Tom’s Website at http://www.tomastleyphotography.co.uk/
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Hello there,
This past weekend saw me shooting a wedding in West Wales, it was on the Gower, the wedding was for Kay and Andi and it was an amazing day, well they had booked a video crew, the guys in question were Steve from Focus Media Productions from Llanelli in South Wales – Steve was assisted by the ever smiling and uber helpful Phill on the day.
What a pleasant surprise when I opened up my mail box yesterday and saw an email from Steve with a few snippets of me at work on the day.
So here is what I received – naturally I have added a few amateur titles to it and a few stills
If your looking for a great company to video your wedding day then I cant recommend Focus Media Productions enough, they were great to work with, they worked well with other professional on the day including me and the couple really seemed to enjoy having them around, they were no intrusive but from what I have seen the video is fantastic.
You can find them at http://www.focusmediaproductions.co.uk/
Here is a little snippet from me at work
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Hello there,
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of photographing Dylan in the studio – the shoot was a Make Over / Glamour / Boudoir shoot
Here are a few of the photos from the photoshoot, posted with permission.
and I love this shot, it actually didn’t make the final cut but made the outtake list – for some reason I just love this photo
Thanks to Dylan for letting me post these images.
To find out more about our boudoir photography please visit our boudoir photography page
ciao
dp
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The Mailbox – Birmingham City Center
Hey there,
Last night I met up with Kathryn and Paul at the Mailbox in Birmingham for their engagement session. We met up at dusk and shot a few photos around the cannals and The Mailbox.
You learn a lot about your couples on engagement shoots, I now know Kathryn likes nice shops and very nice hair dressers, Paul knows all the good restaurants and the couple hold The Mailbox in high regard as its where they first met.
It was a bit cold, slightly windy but Paul and Kathryn did fantastically well and here are a few photos from the night.
Great shoot ! – great couple, cant wait till the wedding
ciao
dp
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Hello there,
Well as I mentioned in my last blog post, its been pretty crazy around here recently. Its also weeks like the past couple of weeks that keeps me shooting weddings !
I have shot well over 400 weddings to date yet in the past 2 weeks I have seen things I have never seen at a wedding before and have enjoyed the weddings so much so I thought I would share – often these pictures are not the best photos, they are not the ‘Signature Images’ or great shots of the couples getting married BUT they are shots that the couple have spent hours planning and shots which have great meaning for the couple.
Me, I am always amazed at what I will see at my next wedding.
2 weekends ago it was Easter and on Saturday I was shooting the wedding of Tracy and Russel, well they had lots of children at their wedding and it was very obvious that family was very very important to them – just after the meal in the down time between the meal and the evening starting, a very special guest turned up to say hello to the kids, it was the Easter Bunny !
at the same weddings, one set of their friends could not make it because they were also getting married so we made a quick dash for the beach and met up with them
This past Saturday just after the first dance (normally when I leave unless there are fireworks or lanterns etc) the couple (Kay and Andi) had arranged for ‘Bag’s’ the fire eater to put on a show ! – I have to tell you this was an amazing show and Bags is such a great entertainer
Kay and Andi also put on an amazing day, at one point there was a mini fish and chip supper (was going to be on the beach but it was a bit cold and raining) – then after this was some really nice ice cream from Icicle Tricylc Wales http://www.icicletricyclewales.co.uk
and last but not least is probably the most amazing wedding cake I have seen – this cake was made by the grandmother of the bride and took around 6 months to make. I have never seen such an intricate cake in my whole time shooting weddings !
ever single grain of sand, stone, pebble, shell, starfish and the cake its self were painstakingly made and were edible
last but not least is the venue shot from my wedding 2 weeks ago at Tunnel Beach in Devon, I have never shot a venue that looks like something from a James Bond movie before, this venue was carved into the rocks, well thats what it looked like !
What a week – as you can see even after all this time, there is always something to make you say WOW !
ciao for now
dp
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Hey peeps,
Things are super busy around here so been a bit lax in posting updates etc, but here is the photo of the week for this week.
I am going to share with you a smaller and bigger version as the smaller version does not do the image justice.
Its from a wedding 2 weeks ago, I had a mad weekend where I was in Pembrokeshire on Saturday and then Devon on the Sunday.
This photo was taken in Devon at the amazing Tunnel Beach wedding venue, unfortunately the weather was not the greatest but my bride and groom that day were amazing and went out to the rocks despite the cold and wind – this made for GREAT skys and amazing photos IMHO.
I was assisted on the day by the good looking and sickeningly fit and athletic Cris Lowis from Cris Lowis Photography, talk about making me look like an out of shape blob ! - anyway as I often say the greatest images only come about because of the people who help you create them, Cris was my 2nd shooter and lighting assistant and for these photos he was holding the Lencarta Safari Li-on light on a 14 foot pole in the air so I could overpower the daylight, bring out all the detail in the sky and make the bride pop – he was always only seconds away from getting wet as he had to stand on the tide line but without him these images would not have been possible. – Cris is great wedding photographer and is based in Staffordshire and his website is located at www.lowisphotography.co.uk/
So here it is
As I said to really enjoy the photo you need to see it bigger so if you click below you will see a bigger version of the image
http://www.davidpurslow.com/forumpics/sallyrocks1.jpg
The technicals of the image are 200 ISO – 1/125th F The focal length was 55mm’s
here is a shot of Cris hard at work !
Congrats to Sally and George, many thanks to Cris for all his help !
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Hello there,
A little late this week for the photo of the week as I have had a wedding on Saturday in Pembrokeshire and then another one in Devon on Sunday. I returned to the studio Monday for 2 photo shoots and then another this morning – so just before going home to have some quality time with Mrs P and the chillens I thought I would post a photo of the week.
My shoot this morning was a Mother and Daughter photoshoot make over – my Subject was Miss E and her mother. Mrs E brought with her, her flute and after having a bunch of photos shot in the studio we ventured off around the ground to shoot a pic in the woods.
The second Miss E mentioned she had her Flute I got very excited, With this beautiful young lady in a ball gown, amazing light spilling thru the trees and the silver flute I knew it would be a cracking shot.
The technicals on this one are pretty simple, I exposed for the background and over exposed it slightly (the green bits) – I positioned Miss E so she was backlit and hair lit by the sun and filled in the front with a 2 meter strip box powered by a Lencarter LI-on Safari portable studio light chucking out around 450 whatts of power
I shot at F8 at 1/200th of a second and this is the result
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