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Conor and Laura – Lough Rynn Wedding..

January 13, 2012 Posted in Wedding, Wedding Galleries

Conor and Laura’s Wedding – Lough Rynn Hotel

I’ve just been going over previous weddings that I didn’t blog about and realised I didn’t blog this one.. and it was one of my favourites from the year.

Wedding Photography - Lough Rynn Walled Garden Bridge

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For the photography geeks among reading I’ll tell you that one of the reasons I remember this wedding is because it was the first wedding where I used a lot of ‘live-view’ on the camera. It allowed me to get more unusual angles while being absolutely sure of the focus, exposure and composition. I found it a very refreshing way to work.

The church was Ballaghadereen, County Roscommon. Actually it was a Cathedral and quite a nice one too.. The reception was in the excellent Lough Rynn Hotel. I’m a huge fan of Lough Rynn. It has everything going for it. As well as gorgeous grounds and the walled garden the hotel itself is wonderful. The old part of the buildings date back to some time a long time ago (!!) and they’ve extended it to add more rooms and function room. The way the new parts have been integrated from the old to the new has been done very well. There are loads of places for photographs in good weather and bad. The staff are fantastic and helpful. Well, you get the idea! Check them out on www.loughrynn.ie

Wedding Dress Veil Goes Flying - Photography by Corin Bishop

On to the pictures…. Laura and Conor were brill to work with. Very relaxed and good fun. Conor had joked before the wedding that while the pictures were being done he would be in the bar. So just in case that happened Laura made up a life size cardboard cut-out of Conor!

Cardboard cut-out of Conor on his wedding day

Anyway, enjoy the rest of the pictures.

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Christine and Neil’s Lyrath Kilkenny Wedding

December 7, 2011 Posted in Wedding, Wedding Galleries

Christine and Neil’s Wedding – Lyrath Hotel Kilkenny

I got to meet Christine and Neil through another photographer, Darren Purcell. He was friends with them but was unable to do their wedding. So he kindly passed them on to me. We met up and they were happy to book me as their photographer!

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The wedding was in Kilkenny, the Lyrath Hotel and they wanted to visit Kilkenny Castle too. So great couple, great location and all that was needed was for the weather to be good.. It was!!!

Everyone had a great day. They were getting ready in the Lyrath so I was able to take pictures of the bride and groom getting ready (a rare thing for a lone photographer!).

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I have to say that not only are they a really lovely couple but they are mad. In a nice way of course. All of the guests were great fun. It was a long day (14 hours round trip!) but I enjoyed it.

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Hope you like the pics.

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Special Gift Voucher Offers for Christmas!

November 24, 2011 Posted in Special Offers

We have Gift Voucher promotions running for Christmas.

Corin Bishop Voucher Box

Our Vouchers are beautifully presented in a gift box along with a brochure giving information about Corin Bishop Photography.These vouchers really look the part and are a perfect gift for all sorts of occasions. They can be used for a New Baby, Birthdays, Christenings, Weddings and more! They can be either a cash value or for something specific (e.g. portrait sitting and frames 8×10 print).

Current Offers:

Spend €50 or more on a voucher and we’ll add €25!

Spend €150 or more and we’ll add €50!

We have a fantastic ‘Starter’ package that includes a portrait sitting, one 10×8 Framed Desk Portrait and two 7×5″ Prints - all for €145, saving over €100!

We’re open Wednesday to Saturday 10.30am to 5.30pm. We will be open until 1pm on the 24th of December.

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Military Wedding…. swoon girls… swoon…

November 22, 2011 Posted in Wedding, Wedding Galleries

Eoghan and Christina Get Married, Longford and then the Radisson Blu Athlone

Ok, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m a bit of a soppy git… sometimes…

When I’ve done the wedding previews and shown the client, I get to go home and show my wife the pictures. It’s the only time I actually sit down and go through the wedding without my ‘photographer’ head on. I’ve done all the editing, I can finally see the images together as a set without analysing exposure, contrast, colour, BW, vignetting, cropping, processing, sharpening, blurring, dodging/burning etc. This is where the soppy mush head bit comes in. I have been known to get a bit emotional when looking back through the pictures… A bit sad, I know. Now, let’s get something clear, I’m not talking a blubbering mess on the floor. Just a bit of that tingly nose, maybe a slight bit more water in the eyes than I did a few minutes ago (only slight mind you, not visible to anyone else). Nothing major, honest. I mentioned this to the wife who obviously totally took the p**s out of me and told me to “man up”. But then she said that the day I don’t get emotional looking at the wedding pics is the day you don’t care. That’s the day to give it up. So, it’s not that I’m a bit of pansy. I just care about the weddings I photograph and the people at them.

The Ring.. The Uniform!

That said… let’s talk about this wedding. I was quite apprehensive about this wedding and mainly because of the venue. The Radisson Blue in Athlone is a lovely hotel.. on a fine day. There is a great deck on the side of the River Shannon but it’s feck all use when it’s raining. Inside the hotel there are very few places for photo’s. The weather forecast was not looking good. We checked a few other locations for possible stop-off on the way but all of them were busy/had weddings of their own. The main plan was to use inside the church for the family photo’s, not ideal but after seeing the church I wasn’t too worried as there was a good bit of light in there. Anyway, the day itself was fab! The forecasted rain/storm didn’t turn up! Just blazing sunshine! Blue sky!

Bride and Groom, Burgess Park

We were able to get the family shots done in the garden of the church. We stopped off for a few photo’s in Burgess Park. We were able to use the deck out the back too! Phew, phew, phew…. So I was lucky, no stress… except the start of the day when we took the wedding dress out of the bag and it was badly creased! I said to steam it but no-one was brave enough to do it so I spent 20 minutes with a steam iron taking out creases! No-one thought to take a photo, that would have been cool!

Eoghan is in the Army so there was military element to the wedding. The groom was in uniform. There was a guard of honour who also participated in the mass (swords n’all). The light in the church was really good and made for some lovely natural light shots.

Bride and Groom, Burgess Park

My Favourite shot of the day? Loads actually.. all the ones in the slideshow below anyway but I think you’ll enjoy the one below. The pageboy and his sister thought it would be good to do a bit of dancing during mass… I love mum’s disapproving glance in the background!

A bit of Dancing

Enjoy the few pics…

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Something different – again. BRIO Little Forest Train Set Review

November 22, 2011 Posted in Reviews

BRIO Little Forest Train Set Review by Nicola Bishop

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My List of People I’d like to photograph… I’ve made a start, with an Oscar Winner…

November 9, 2011 Posted in News, Personal, Portraits

My List of People Who’s Portrait I’d like to take..

A Start… Peter Lord…

For those who follow my blog you may have seen my list of people who’s portrait I’d like to take..

The list is a bit of a mad mix of people and to some extent a mix of mad people… (!)… and there was a lot of waffle from me about why I wanted to take these portraits… I won’t put you to sleep by going over it again so if you want to read all about my totally selfish project then click the link above.

Anyway, I’ve actually made a start on the list thanks to Peter Lord. Peter has been a family friend and neighbour for quite a few years (we won’t mention how many).

To quote from wikipedia “Peter Lord CBE is a British film producer, director and co-founder of the Academy award-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay animated films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace & Gromit“.

To me he will always be famous for his first creation, Morph. I grew up watching Morph on Tony Hart during my childhood so I’m a big big fan.

Peter agreed to let me take his portrait and after a few attempts to meet during visits home to Bristol we finally met up. Peter is currently directing Pirates! An Adventure with Scientists (see their facebook page here) so I got to meet him at the studio where it’s being made. Myself, my wife and my 4 year old son got a tour of the studio too! I can’t put in to words how cool that was…

I didn’t plan anything for this shoot. I just brought a camera with me. Canon 5dMKII and 24-105 Lens. That’s it. I figured it’s a studio, they have lights and stuff? I wasn’t wrong, they had lights and stuff (phew!). After a super duper tour of the studio/sets we came across an empty set and a solitary light (large ARRI). It was directed at a large piece of white polystyrine board. The board was about the same size as my fave softbox so it looked perfect. So a little bit of messing around to get the power up on the ARRI and move the board down and I was set. I just got Peter to stand just inside the pool of light being bounced off the board while also catching a tiny bit of fill on the left from the light itself. The set was too huge to do anything with the background so it just went to black. I would actually prefer not to go to total black but the option wasn’t practical. I took about 6 test shots then shot about 10 frames.

I was looking for something quite specific from the portait and I talk about it in blog article. It’s character. It’s that something in the eyes, the positioning and the look at camera that allows the viewer of the portrait to see something other than just a plain headshot – to see engage with the subject. It’s very subtle and I’m happy I got it here. I knew I got it while I was shooting as this is the last shot I took.

There is one more little thing to mention about the Portrait. There is a Blue Peter badge. It’s taken Peter Lord a long time but he has finally got one of these very coveted badges from the popular BBC Childrens program. He wears it proudly. It had to be in the portrait of course!

Here it is…

Peter Lord (C) Corin Bishop 2011

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