Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Jennifer & Chester's wedding in London

Jennifer & Chester married on the 19th May 2007 at Westminster register office, London. After the ceremony guests boarded a red routemaster bus for a tour of the cities sights before heading to the Counting House pub (near the Bank of England) for dinner and the reception.

The Counting House are well know for their pies so Jennifer, Chester and their guests had pie & mash for dinner. Later in the evening Chester entertained the guests by starting the karoke, followed by the bride and bridesmaids.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Recent weddings

The last couple of weeks have been very busy and I have not managed to upload any recent weddings to the blog. At a recent wedding a guest commented how nice it must be to work just one day a week on a Saturday. If only that was true! Each wedding takes a lot of time behind the scenes. Firstly I edit all the files and then open each file for colour corrections . I do any minor retouching work required at this stage as well. I then make a complete back up set from each wedding before resizing photographs to upload to the "view your wedding" section of my website. Next I create a DVD slide show of the photographs ready for when the couple return from honeymoon and create contact sheets from all the photographs. Then I spend many hours designing albums before sending them to be custom made in New Zealand. Every photograph for the album is then opened, enhanced, sized for the album and printed ready to be assembled in the album when it arrives. Each wedding takes me about 40 hours in total. I'm a full time wedding photographer and with 45 to 50 weddings a year I'm certainly kept busy.



On the 5th May I photographed Rachael & Ben's wedding at Kilworth House Hotel and on the 12th May I photographed Carole & Damian's wedding at Norwood Park. Below are a few photographs from these weddings.