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In the deep dark tunnel

Tim — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:05:17 +0000

A friend of ours told us about a disused railway tunnel and after he’d described it we knew we needed to shoot it. For some reason we chose a cold cold cold night for our first visit. The approach was a little sketchy and we were pretty close to injuring ourselves a couple of times. After a few near missed we found it and crawled through the small gap at the mouth of the tunnel.

We were greeted by “dark”. I don’t just mean it was dark down there, I mean that the darkness was tangible somehow, you almost felt like if you reached out and grabbed you would actually be able to touch it, it was incredible. Light from our torches was swallowed up somehow by the thick darkness.

Ok I think you get the point, it was pretty dark?!

Shooting in complete darkness has its challenges, the main being you can’t see what you are pointing your camera at until you have taken the photo you see it on the back of your camera. It was so interesting what we found once we had done our lighting. We didn’t do a great job of hiding one of the lights in the middle but I thought I would leave it in anyway.

Below is a shot with Tom (a willing assistant on the night). Excuse the quality of this one, it was just a test shot. I quite like the grainy quality on this one at times though.

This was an idea that we didn’t quite pull of but we were trying to play around with some reflections in some water that had collected down there.

Here was one of our final shots. We really like it. The textures on the brickwork is amazing down there. We definately plan to go back there and take some more shots. Maybe when its a bit warmer though.

Happy Wednesday!

Portrait: Phoo and Boo

Ben — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:21:14 +0000

When Nicole’s (my wife) best friend asked me to photograph her kids, I knew this one was going to a fun one because Aimee, their oldest is a right little poser/wannabe diva :-) and she lived up to her reputation. So who’s Phoo and Boo? Aimee was affectionately called Aimee Boo from pretty much the start of her life and they had to follow suit with Phoebe and with only one syllable as the requirement “phoo” was adopted. In between Phoebe wrecking our studio and Aimee going to the toilet (Diva :-)) we got some great shot of the two of them. We also cracked out Bella’s Christmas/Birthday present from Tim, the mini armchair, it rocks!

Personal: Bella

Tim — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:27:02 +0000

We’ve got a family portrait session next week with a local church and we were just testing some new equipment with our resident model in the making. She is always a willing volunteer and the camera loves her. OK so I am a little biased as this is Ben’s baby daughter Bella. We had some fun anyway.

Its a shame we won’t be able to show you any shots from next weeks shoot as it is mainly children and we would need to fill out all sorts of forms to be able to use the photos on here. We’ll let you know how it goes though. (just without pictures).

Here’s one of the most photographed babies in the world anyway. (one of Bella’s very first words was “cheese!”)

Personal: Portraits

Tim — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:04:23 +0000

When updating the site Ben and I realised that for all the photos we have taken over the years we had pretty much no photos of us. This is fairly typical for photographers (its the same as having a good face for radio, we both have fairly good faces for being behind the camera) but we realised we needed something, so here are a few of us really trying to take it seriously.

Really not sure what i was thinking with this raised eyebrow look. I don’t think I’ll be trying it again any time soon!

Ben just trying to do some face exercises to see if that would help at all… Have your say as to whether you think it work by putting a comment below.

A last ditch effort of a black and white conversion was all we could think that would make us look half decent. Ben is still not happy with his!

Our first Blog

Tim — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:40:09 +0000

So this is the brand spanking new Milkbottle Photography blog! Its been a long time coming (for us anyway) so thanks for you patience and thanks for stopping by.

Ben and I will be posting our general musings and goings-on relating to our wedding photography on here from now on. It will be loosely based around all the weddings we do but will include pretty much anything else we are doing too. Neither of us are wonderfully gifted writers but we sure can waffle if left to our own devices so we will try and keep things as concise as possible, promise!

If you are a bride or groom to be and you are looking for a wedding photographer then this is a great blog to read to get an idea of who we are and how we work.