The Wedding of Christine & Paul | High Rocks, Kent | Gavin Conlan Essex Wedding Photographer | www.gavinconlan.com

What an amazing weekend...

Combining the marriage of one of my best friends to his beautiful new wife Christine, all of us hanging out for a couple of nights and then the little post wedding shoot with my awesome team of helpers ( you know who you are!!).  

There were so many classic moments, belly aching laughs and the occasional slightest of little hangovers on my part which only seemed to come on every time I crouched down to get a shot.

Christine and Paul got married at the beautiful venue in Royal Tunbridge Wells called High Rocks, if you've never been there then you should because the rocks make for a great day out.

I wanted to post a small selection of teaser images of their amazing day.  

Their STUNNING online slideshow is NOW LIVE please scroll to the bottom of this post to view it.  

I am also going to include some classic behind the scenes shots from Sunday's session so you can see what actually goes into making a great image.......

Paul, Christine - thank you for giving me the honour of capturing your wedding day and I hope you love your photographs - have an amazing honeymoon and I'll see you soon.

- Gavin

The Wedding of Lorraine & Ricky | Ashwells, Brentwood | Gavin Conlan Essex Wedding Photographer | www.gavinconlan.com

Last Friday was a momentous day, one of my best friends got married to his soul mate the beautiful Lorraine.

For those that know me I have a real issue about get old and leading up to their wedding I had a bit of a wobble, in my mind we are all still 16 messing about without a care in the world but in reality we are adults doing adult things (well sort of !!)

It was an absolute honour to photograph their wedding day at the gorgeous Ashwells Sports and Country Club in Brentwood, I could not have relaxed watching someone else shoot their day.  Working surrounded by all my mates was a bit weird (in a good way) at first but it just made for a wicked day.

I really hope you love looking at these images, their online slideshow is NOW LIVE - you can view this underneath their images.  I hope you all love it as much as I do.

Rick, Lorraine I Love You both to bits..... I wish you nothing but a lifetime of happiness together !!!!

- Gavin

London Bridal shoot - My top 50 favourite images | Gavin Conlan Essex Wedding and Portrait Photographer | www.gavinconlan.com | www.facebook.com/gavinconlanphotography

In honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations I thought it would be the perfect time to showcase the amazing Bridal shoot I did a couple of months ago in our gorgeous Capital City.

We had the absolute honour to be able to shoot at the top of the iconic Gherkin building in London's Bishopsgate area, the stunning Leadenhall Market and the fantastic Millennium Bridge with St Paul's Cathedral making the perfect backdrop.

London is an amazing City and when you merge that with a beautiful model and a stunning wedding dress I was blessed with the opportunity of capturing an endless amount of beautiful images.  With this post I decided to showcase my top 50 favourites in no particular order - I hope you love them too.

All images were shot using a mixture of available/natural light, video lights and Nikon speedlights.  I am thinking about posting before and after images - if you think this is something you'd like to see and could possibly help you with your photography and editing in some way please leave a comment below....

If you are interested in booking a session with me you can get in touch via my website or on here.

I hope whatever your doing in honour of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations this weekend that you have amazing fun with your loved ones...

God Bless the Queen and thank you Her Majesty for our extended bank holiday ......

Romantic Portraiture in London, England | Gavin Conlan UK Wedding & Portrait Photographer | www.gavinconlan.com

Again another one of my favourite shoots having a 2012 make over.  I absolute love how this has turned out, the shoot took place along London's Southbank - a great area to photograph.

You may recognise image 13 as I used this previously as my journal header.

I'll let the images speak for themselves, I hope you enjoy them.

Lingerie shoot in Essex from a few years back | Gavin Conlan UK Wedding & Portrait Photographer | www.gavinconlan.com

As I mentioned previously I've been going through some of my old shoots and re-editing them to co-inside with my latest post processing techniques.

This shoot is approx 3 to 4 years old and it was the first time I had ever shot lingerie, it shot at home back in the day before I owned the Lastolite Hi-lite background. I ended up using a white cloth background in the dining room held together with cloth pegs to capture the "studio" style shots.  

I've never been that keen on shooting in a studio environment there's just something about location shooting that I love and the challenges it can bring.  The outdoor shots were all taken in the woods near my house, we found this great tree trunk that had been cut down and decided to use it as the prop (as you can see :).  

Looking back now I wish I had taken more variations of this location but I remember at the time I was so concentrating on the lighting that I just got carried away....

I have never used any of these images until today they have sat gathering dust on my harddrives, that's the thing with digital photography if your not careful images just get lost on drives.

Anyway I really hope you enjoy viewing them.  All shots were lit using nikon speedlights shot through umbrellas and a ezybox softbox, daylight and captured on my nikon D200 camera....