More about the £250.00 photography session:
I can come to your home or you can come to my studio in Battersea. I find that children are always much more relaxed in their own environment and we can mix up a session to include some fun photographs outside as well as the studio style photographs we take inside.

You’ll get a mix of colour and black and white photographs on a DVD, the high resolution photos are all yours to keep and you don’t have to come back to me and pay for extra prints. I will of course be delighted to print any you want me to.
Three prints up to 12”x8” are also included in the package.

We have teamed up with a local company who are going to produce our large wall prints, and they are offering us 5 wall prints free as part of our ongoing deal with them. The wall prints measure 900mm x 700mm and are stand alone contemporary pieces. You choose which photograph from the portrait session you would like to print and we’ll do the rest. We normally sell these large prints for £565.00.

Read more about the family portrait photography session here.

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Last Weekend on the 5th and 6th of February was the UK Wedding show at the Excel Exhibition Centre in Docklands and I took charge of stand no 200 next to the stage and the Champagne bar.

Before the show began on the Saturday I met up with a number of the 13 other photographers and also had a chance to put faces to the names of the various suppliers we’ve been networking with online for the last year.

The show was great and the large wall prints I had produced reflected my style of wedding photography very well which meant that brides and grooms didn’t have to trawl through lots of albums to understand what sort of photographs I would produce at their wedding.

I ran a competition at the show for a pre wedding shoot, congratulations to the winners, all have been notified this morning.

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Over the last six months we have been very busy with weddings but I have never been that happy with the look of the wedding website. Most of the wedding bookings come by way of referal but new wedding clients looking at dozens of websites in search of a photographer were unlikely to call me because my previous wedding website looked a bit dull and homemade. It contained tons of information but didn’t leap out and grab anyone enough to want to make an enquiry.

With the help of my web designer Solly in New Zealand it now looks sleek, clear, informative, and most of all sexy!

The blogs are now divided up into two categories; recent weddings, and blog and news. The previous blog included all this but the recent weddings were cluttered up with all sorts of other wedding related information. You can read about the origins of confetti, why men wear wedding rings, photography trends, what to do if it rains on your wedding day, and even what does ‘Something old something new something borrowed something blue’ mean?

The Portfolio is now full of great photographs much more representative of my style. Take a look at it here.

The Packages page has been reworked and it is now much easier to see what is included within each one. I’ve also included half day packages for shorter weddings and those on a tight budget, this means I can still offer a high end service without the full day price tag. Take a look at the packages page here.

There’s also a new Albums and Wedding Books Page, and I’m really pleased with the way this now looks. Again it is much more representative of the albums I actually produce for couples. Take a look at the Albums page here.

There’s now a page about me and lots of testimonials around the site, there’s also much more detail on some of the fun things we can also provide at a wedding, take a look at the Creative Extras page here.

To accompany the website there is also a newly designed flyer which you can pick up the stall on Northcote Road. Please let me know what you think of the new site.

On Sunday afternoon I photographed Justin Bieber with 800 fans who had bought tickets for his book signing at The Garage at Highbury Corner in North London. Harper Collins and HMV ran the event.

The fans, mostly girls, had their photograph taken with Justin amid much hysteria and screaming and were able to download a high res 6″x4″ prints as part of their package from my website. I set up a studio in the venue and the people from Harper Collins and the huge security team helped assemble the groups of girls as the photographs were taken.

Justin Bieber and his entourage left as quickly as they had arrived back to the airport for the US. He is due to perform in the Uk early next year.

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You can read all about it on the weddings site, go to www.weddingphotographerslondon.uk.com

Some of the best outdoor photographs I think I’ve taken of families outdoors have been in the autumn using the colours and leaves as props, and I also think some of my best selling gallery photographs have been taken in various cities in autumn.

So how do you take photographs in autumn? My biggest tip for portraits photography in the autumn is keep the sun behind you. And with Landscapes try experimenting taking photographs through the autumn colours into the sun.

In autumn the direct light is much softer than it is in summer and worth using to your advantage. The best time of day is at the beginning and at the end, and with the weather we’ve been having lately conditions are ideal.

For Portraits and shots of the children playing in the leaves set your DSLR to AV (aperture priority), and set the aperture to the lowest it will go to – maybe 6.4 ,5.6 or 4. The corresponding speed will be quite high and you’ll be able to capture the movement without too much blur.

You could also try this in reverse if the children (and the adults) are throwing leaves at each other. Set your camera to TV (time priority) and set the speed to 60. Take plenty of photographs, I take 50 or 60 images in a burst if there’s lots of action, the law of averages dictates that if you take plenty there will be some good exposures.

For Landscape photographs take your time. Experiment with depth of field with aperture as high and as low as it will go. Most lenses perform best at around f11. If you have a tripod use it even if you can take the photograph handheld. I find that using a tripod slows the picture taking process down and I think much more carefully about the composition. If you’re standing with your back to the light the camera’s metering system will be quite accurate although you will need to take a few frames at different exposures just to make sure you get a spot on exposure. Think carefully about how you frame your photograph, use lines of trees, use the disappearing perspective you get with pathways, or get close in with a zoom lens.

I’ve talked a lot about the settings you should use on SLR cameras. With compact cameras where you can’t make many manual alterations to the camera exposure don’t worry, put a large memory card in your camera and try taking lots of pictures and experiment with the manual settings.

You’ve got plenty of time. The colours in the last two years according to my records start to look good in mid October, and oak trees don’t start falling until mid December.

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On Tuesday I photographed the Progressive Software Summit which was held in The Millennium Centre at the Chelsea Football Ground. Dragon Den’s James Caan was their guest speaker. Various seminars and lectures were scheduled throughout the day and key delegates including those from blue chip companies such as BA and Tata spoke about how Progressive software applied to their companies. Break out seminars were held during the afternoon in the private viewing boxes overlooking the ground.

A very entertaining tour of the football ground was provided for those who were interested, and at 4pm James Caan spoke about his success and failures in business. A champagne reception was laid on in the evening.

We photographed the event during the day and the evening covering the networking events, the break out seminars and the delegates, speakers and guests networking. In the evening we provided our instant prints service and we took photographs of the guests with the Chelsea Football club’s very impressive collection of silverware . Guests always love the instant prints and mobile studio service we provide and it’s a great thing for hosts to give their guests in terms of good pr.

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Last Friday I drove through the pouring rain to meet Charlotte and Matt at the The Barn at Bury Court in Bentley near Farnham. I photographed Charlotte’s sisters wedding at the Battersea Pump House four years ago.

The gardens and the facilities for weddings at The Barn at Bury Court are impressive, and although Charlotte and Matt’s friends and family made good use of the indoor space we weren’t able to use the garden because of the weather. Charlotte and Matt did brave the elements with their umbrellas and we were able to take some great photographs like the one above.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Charlotte and Matt, and their guests, and having now processed all of the images I can see that my very trip around the garden was well worth it!

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Wedding Photographers Devon, Melissa and Steven.

I first met Melissa three years ago at a wedding I photographed in Scotland. I then met Melissa again with Steven in January this year at another wedding, and we talked about their wedding planned for later in the year in Thurlestone in South Devon. My wife and I have been coming to Thurlestone with our children for many years and we know the area well. For more more information of wedding photography.

Coincidentally Melissa and Steven had booked their wedding on the same weekend we had planned to arrive for our holiday in Devon which worked out very well. So I’m writing this blog while on holiday, the weather has been great so far and we will be back in London this weekend.

Melissa and Steven are moving house next week and will probably take a holiday later in the year.

Free makeovers were provided by the store and we photographed and produced glamourous studio prints for the shoppers who had taken part in the opening celebrations. The store opened at midday on Thursday and the photography sessions started at 4 o’clock. We finished at 8pm having photographed and produced prints for over 180 people.

Our mobile studio has been very popular this year, the photographs we can produce are studio quality and we can print and supply photographs at the event.

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