Blogposts
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Henfield wedding | Kat & Rog
A mid-June wedding in Henfield, West Sussex, for a local couple. A fairly local wedding for me and a last-minute wedding booking *. Kat only got in touch five weeks before the wedding day. I believe they had considered not hiring a wedding photographer, but Kat found me via my Instagram feed. It turned out…
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Manor Farm wedding | Katie & Harris
Manor Farm wedding photography Manor Farm is a working farm in the village of Upton Cheney, just between Bristol and Bath. It is also a wedding venue that works well because it is simple. You cannot get simpler than cutting a space in the long grass and arranging some fold-up chairs near the top of…
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Just one lens
Just one lens, the 50mm lens Let’s say I can have only one lens to shoot a complete wedding day. Just one lens to create a story of the day with reportage wedding photography. One focal length all day that still provides a variety of images to be captured. What lens would I choose? The…
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Five Sussex wedding venues
Five Sussex wedding venues…that I’d recommend. Sussex wedding venues. I’ve lived in Sussex for almost 24 years, photographing weddings in the county all that time. I even shot many before, when I lived in London. I’ve seen and worked at many wedding venues in that time. It has been rather a mixed bunch, to be…
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Pub Weddings
Pub Weddings Pub weddings or more accurately, pub wedding receptions. I’ve shot wedding ceremonies in a Brewery and a Winery but not a ceremony in a pub I think. But wedding receptions in a pub can be very atmospheric, and lend the images an intimacy as there is usually little space! Imagine a busy, packed…
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Word of Mouth
Word of Mouth – HOW ONE BOOKING LEADS TO ANOTHER Word-of-mouth recommendations that lead to bookings. Wedding bookings/enquiries would need a whole blog post. Some enquiries are bizarre. Some enquiries just get this way of capturing a wedding and book immediately upon checking on my availability. The more creative the couple – I shoot many…
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Wedding Entertainment
Wedding entertainment Wedding entertainment, by which I mean making the drinks reception bit more special for the wedding guests. So I am not talking about the Band, the DJ, the photo booths, or even the fireworks, all that is the evening stuff but what can happen in the afternoon. With the ceremony complete, for most…
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IPhones, iPads and cameras
A few months ago I had an old client get in touch about their image files from their wedding in 2003. Having found the set of images, I ran through them, tweaking the files as much as you can with files from 2003 (Nikon D1X wedding photography). This was still the early days of digital…