May and June

Start Of A New Season

Well it's been ages since I made that promise to keep up to date with my blog. Life takes over with family holidays and just getting ready for the onslaught of a new season of wedding photography! It's been very busy on the enquiry front which is great as I know a lot of people are struggling out there. I think there is light on the horizon and testing times like this are there to give us a wake up call and just try that little bit harder. 

It has been harder and much more competitive to get the bookings but we have to think about how we can change marketing strategies and especially keep up with new developments in the ever changing technological developments. I have been seriously looking at the new Red Scarlet camera that is maybe out in the Autumn. It allows to shoot RAW images at 25 frames a second and at a very high resolution. This will allow stills to be grabbed from moving images. I am still trying to get my head around how still and moving image can work together, but I think in a few years time this crossover is definitely going to happen. I'm actually very excited by it all and feel it's always good to keep adapting and moving forward. 

Anyway since my last post I have shot a few more weddings which has kept the bills paid and things ticking along nicely. Here is a small selection of images. Any comments welcome apart from the idiot who could just muster up the word "shit". It would amaze me if this person could even manage to look through a camera the right way.

Liz and Chris at Pennyhill

My First Post

Well here we go with my first ever Blog. I promise that I'll be good and try and get one image up every week and explain my philosophy about how good quality wedding photography should look, and why bride and grooms should always go that bit extra to get some outstanding images from the day.

It's too much of a risk to take with someone who does it part time at weekends just because they have a nice camera and can take the odd good photograph. It's about consistency and being able to produce at least 100 images that will look great in an album.

Here's just one image from a December wedding that I attended. Hopefully you will agree with me that this image has what is the most important element of photography – timing, or as Cartier Bresson called it, 'the decisive moment'.  It's these kind of those moments when you have to think fast and be ready. A second later and the girl was gone leaving behind her engrossed companions!