Wellies as back up!

Jennifer and Jays wedding did saty dry, although Jenni had brilliantly though ahead and bought wonderful wellies to walk around the gardens in!  You can't choose the weather, but you can be prepared!

The Quickest Qualification!

Choosing a wedding photographer who has recognized qualifications in wedding photography is a way of ensuring you get someone who knows there craft.  

There are different levels of qualification, as well as qualifications in different genres of photography.  Not everyone can work well say under the pressure of a wedding, with all of the time constraints, and variable shooting conditions, you need to be confident and adaptable, and able to think fast!

Having only recently jpoined the Guild, I am pleased to say I am now a Qualified  Member for weddings.  The next step?  Getting my Craftsman, which I hope to do this year.

Check out one of my weddings featured on this vinateg wedding blog below:

http://underthevintageveil.com/2012/01/a-pastel-pretty-spring-wedding/

Guild of Photographers

Excited to say I have just become a member of The Guild of Photographers.

Apart from giving potential clients the reassurance that they are choosing a professional, and qualified photographer, the guild is also an opportunity for me to start entering my wedding images in for competitions, something that is long overdue!  Workload usually hinders the time needed to follow through this dream, but this year I am determined to see what I can achieve on a personal level in this field!

Watch this space!

Check out this site

just had a good look around this site, and especially enjoyed reading the photographer interviews!  Great stuff, and really nicely done!  I think a creative person can definitely see,recognise and admire anothers talent.  Makes me want to get married again,...and again,...but to the same guy of course!

Have a look at this site:

Wedding Photographers Directory - Wedding Photography Select. Finding A Wedding Photographer Made Easy

 

Just orderd some new images to update frames both in my office, and for a shop window display at 'Bash Inspiration' in Fleet.  Think the colour one is my favourite, but its always sooo difficult, especially when you have a bride as gorgeous as this!

PS went for the fairy 'theme with the oversized mushrooms in the groiunds of Frensham Heights.  Great venue!

Vintage Wedding? It seems to be a key trend to go back to the old, embracing quality and good value. 'You get what you pay for'...type of Ikea mentality.

 Better to invest in a sturdy piece of wooden furniture, and breath into it a new lease of life...!?


Where am I going with this?



Well, it also applies to my industry. It seems, or so both myself & my colleagues are hearing from our customers, that perhaps the cheaper, free Cd providing photographers, are somewhat lacking in the ability, or experience, to provide the basic groups and planning that hold a wedding shoot together, and only concentrating on the 'reportage' element.



Fine if you or your groomsmen know how to organize a crowd in a friendly manner, or choose the best location for light and background to make your couple look stunning, but isn't that what you pay us professionals to do?



It seems that there is a growing knowledge that yes, anyone with a decent SLR can get good shots at a wedding, but that after all is only a small part of what a good wedding photographer needs to be able to do.



Make sure your photographer has the confidence and experience to organize, anticipate and plan, or it may well ruin your glamorous dreams...