Rupert Barker Photogapher

People and Places Photographer – Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England, Great Britain.

Tag: Family

  • A family photoshoot in the woods – ‘behind the scenes’

    A family photoshoot in the woods – ‘behind the scenes’

    As a new feature here on my blog I’m going to start showing a more detailed view of my Private Commission family portrait shoots. Thank you very much to The Platt family for giving me your permission to share these images.

    Back in the Autumn of 2016, I met with The Platt family in some woods near to Malmesbury, the main brief of the the shoot was whole family photographs, concentrating on the children but also Mum and Dad. And thats as loose as the brief needed to be, sometimes its just better to get the family in a beautiful place and take photographs of them being themselves. We had a great shoot, working in the woods is really one of my favourite places, and with a stripped down camera bag and my trusty Elinchrom Quadra Rangers I can carry all I need to shoot fun, simple family portraits whilst still having the full creative control ‘studio’ strobes give you.

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    I love the Autumn colours but there are so many opportunities in the woods whatever the time of year.

     

    family photoshoot autumn woods behind the scenes

    There is always time for some silly faces…….

     

    family photoshoot autumn woods behind the scenes

    Sometimes simple is best.

     

    family photoshoot autumn woods behind the scenes

    Even with all the colour in the woods, I still process images to Black and White, it still has that fantastic way of making us look at the image differently, concentrating on those expressions here for example.

     

    family photoshoot autumn woods behind the scenes

    Billingham Bags – still the best – this one is nearly 10 years old and still has no wear or faults, and my Elinchrom Quadra Ranger and a Portalite Octo Softbox, allow me to single handedly take the studio anywhere we can walk.

     

    family photoshoot autumn woods behind the scenes

    ……and here is the shot.

     

    family photoshoot autumn woods behind the scenes

    And just before we got back to the cars, there is always time to get one more shot, I never shoot with any time limits except those that the client has…….I just hate thinking I might have to leave when I have to often be more worried about the weather or failing light……..

    Thanks for reading this far……I’d love to hear you comments on both the images and this type of blog post……

    If you’d like to know any more or to book your own family photoshoot (woodland is optional!) post me a comment on FB or get in touch by all the normal means, there are links to them all over this page!!!

    Thanks, Rupert.

  • Paddling-Pool-28.05.17

    Paddling-Pool-28.05.17

    Second day in the paddling pool, time to activate the sprinkler……..paddling pool children water sprinkller paddling pool children water sprinkller paddling pool children water sprinkller paddling pool children water sprinkller paddling pool children water sprinkller

  • Paddling-Pool-27.05.1017

    Paddling-Pool-27.05.1017

    So you can blame me for the change in the weather, I was the one who ordered a new paddling pool in the middle of the heatwave….. anyways Tallulah and Scarlett would not be put off, so wetsuits on and in they went…….

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  • Sooty 1995 – 2017

    Sooty 1995 – 2017

    13 years ago in February my Granny had to move into sheltered accommodation that did not allow her to have pets. I had just bought my first house here in Malmesbury and Sooty came to live with me. Today I had to make one of the hardest decisions of my life and let her go. At the grand old age of 21 and blind, her back legs had finally given up on her. She was a grumpy, mad and wonderful cat that I’ll miss so much, I have cried today the most I can remember in my adult life.

    She was not a lap cat, she would sit next to you on the sofa at the most, but she did like to sleep on Kylie’s hair, pinning her to the pillow when she woke. She would wake us up in the middle of the night, soaking wet almost to tell us it was raining, once towel dried, she would disappear and we’d here the familiar sound of the cat flap as she went back outside. She tolerated Thor but took pleasure in sitting on her food cupboard and playfully ‘batting’ him on the nose when he tried to say hello. She tolerated the children when they arrived, I remember a frozen Tallulah calling out to me when, as a 1 year old, she was held to the spot by the same cupboard with a single claw in the scalp, Sooty nonchalantly looking the other way, “Well I warned her”, you could imagine her saying.

    She loved to chase a wine cork on a string, ‘Sooty Fishing’ we used to call it. She loved her Cat Mint pot in the garden and would fiercely defend it from anyone. She loved to have her tail pulled and tickles behind the ears. She was quiet mad, climbed into every box, especially open jigsaws, drank milk every day and slept on a plastic bag, especially if it was in a box!

    I’m not a religious person, I don’t know what happens next, but if the reading I gave for my Uncle at my Granny’s funeral is correct, she is crossing that rainbow bridge now, back with Granny.

    I’m going to miss you Mad Cat – Miaow Miaow.

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  • Lesser Spotted Tri-Horned Scarlett.-‘From my old blog’

    Lesser Spotted Tri-Horned Scarlett.-‘From my old blog’

    Originally posted December 17th 2014.

    I was looking for something and happened across a post from my old blog that requires sharing………….

    Tri Corn Scarlett

     

    Lesser Spotted Tri-Horned Scarlett.

    This morning Scarlett asked for 3 bunches – Mummy obliged – this was shot at 5pm, still 3 bunches and even if I say so myself, that girls got style! #doityourownway

  • Sisters – First Frame

    Sisters – First Frame

    Today is Scarlett’s first day at school and I know your Facebook feeds will have been full of the little darlings in their uniforms – guilty as charged – but whilst I was taking a photograph of Scarlett this morning, Tallulah asked to have one with both of them. This is the first frame, all the rest were silly faces and pushing and jumping, look out anyone who crosses them, these girls have got each others backs!!

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  • School Sports Day…

    School Sports Day…