** NUDITY WARNING **
Had a shoot with MissPixie a couple of weeks back now, absolutely stunning poser, she just motors through them, kind of model its really easy to work with.
This is about half of the images that I thought were keepers from the session.
So here we are a genuine bride, a genuine dress and a genuine lake!!
I shot Jemma and Guys wedding last year and we had intended to get together shortly afterwards to do a follow-up post wedding shoot – particularly of Jemma feeding the pigs (they’re a kind of village pet).
But Jemma was in quite a nasty car crash and things got put on hold. So we got together again, just after their first anniversary to create these lovely and fun shots.
So the thing about your iPhone is of course all the great apps. The latest install on mine is the blogging tool which let’s me write on the iPhone and post direct.
Thing is at home my reception is a but limited, so this blog is coming to you from our downstairs loo!
Trust me, you don’t want a photo to prove it!
Had a call this week from a bride who had booked a photographer and basically got crap photos and crap service.
She gave me the name and I looked them up. £50 an hour of shooting was what they were charging.
OK, let me tell you, you are gonna get what you pay for at £50/hour!
On the face of it, it sort of sounds reasonable, that’s about what a hair-dresser or plumber might charge. But trust me, with photographers what goes on behind the scenes is just as important as what happens when shooting.
For a start, for every hour shooting, we spend another hour on editing. That’s not because the pictures are bad you understand, its because that’s the way digital photography is. Pictures will look OK out of the camera, but they won’t look WOW!
For a wedding, there’s a huge extra amount of time spent retouching images and designing and preparing the album. (The £50/hour dumped a CD of flat images on the client, no album, no nothing).
Just to give you a guide, if we shoot an all day wedding, which is the one we do most often, then we reckon all told that’s FIVE MAN DAYS of work = about 35-40 hours of work on a complete wedding from start to finish.
What they are doing is running a huge web marketing scam, then finding some local Guy With Camera (GWC) who is happy to give up a Saturday afternoon for the few tens of pounds he will actually get paid.
Will he know what he’s doing? – No
Will he take great photo’s? – No
Will he be able to handle the surprises? – No
Will he be experienced at shooting anything professionally – LET ALONE YOUR WEDDING???? – No
I know it sounds like a professional protecting his trade, but really, in 20 years time the only thing you will have from your wedding is your partner and your pictures. Please make sure you get good ones.
You may have already seen the shots of us setting fire to the wedding dress, but we also took some really nice shots of it too.
We hiked our way up to the top of Leckhampton Hill and took some stunning images of the dress blowing in the wind with Cheltenham and the Severn laid out below.
We were blessed with some terrifically moody skies this day. Photoshop barely required to bring them out to their full drama. And of course on top of the hill you are guaranteed a good wind any day of the week!!
If you haven’t seen what did to this dress and a props dress, then have a look through the blog for the Trash the Dress and Drown the Dress entries – they’re fun!!
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