The Wedding of Pamela & James

Today I photographed the wedding of Pamela & James at St Catherine’s Church in Littlehampton. The wedding was at 2pm so there was still plenty of light to play with when they came out of the Church. After a short photo session at Bailiffscourt we set off for their drinks reception and buffet at the Black Horse just up the road. After I left, they went back to Bailiffscourt for their wedding breakfast and evening celebrations.

Web design

On Friday I spent several hours changing the web design because I discovered that after all these years the slide in side menu was not visible on the Safari browser. Around 10% of visitors use Safari so it was vital I made it work properly for them. I will be making more changes over the next week or so; this time of year is ideal to catch up on this kind of stuff!

Heading off to Littlehampton in a while to photograph Pamela & James’s wedding followed by a reception at Bailiffscourt Hotel.

Wedding of Kirstie & Kevin

On Saturday 19th we photographed the wedding of Kirstie and Kevin at the Norfolk Arms Hotel in Arundel. We were lucky enough to get outside and shoot some shots around Arundel, the Castle making the perfect backdrop for some great romantic portraits of the two of them together. The photos will be online soon; username kirstieandkevin and password will their Surname. Here are a few shots from the day..

Password Protection

All weddings will now require a username and password in order to view them. I have decided that initially this will be the their names followed by their new Surname. This will enable friends and family to view them as before. For example; Clare and Paul Smith would be username: clareandpaul and password: smith. All should be in lower case.

SWPP Convention

Today I attended a seminar with Doug Gordon at the 2008 SWPP convention. This was an inspirational demonstration of new techniques and practices and we had a great day. I will be going back tomorrow along with my assistant for the trade show. Here are a couple of my shots from today.

Awards in 2007

I recently joined the Society of Wedding & Portrait Photographers, which is an International Association for Professional Wedding and Portrait Photographers. Since joining I have entered only a handful of images into their highly acclaimed monthly image competitions, and have been awarded merit awards for two of them shown below. Very few images go through to receive merit awards each month as the standards are high, so I am quite pleased with this achievement.

Storybook Prices

Here is some great news for those looking at my Storybook albums this year. Although the manufacturers have increased their prices they have recently introduced design software to greatly assist photographers in the design process, thus allowing us to produce a better book in less time. The average size book would take me several working days to design, but with the new software I am able to do this in no more than two days. I am therefore pleased to announce that I have reduced the price of my Storybook albums to reflect this reduction in time required to design them.

For couples that have already booked a package to include a storybook, this will enable me to increase their book size to accommodate more images or will have the option to have the monetary difference reduced from their balance when it becomes due.

As a guide, a thirty-page book now starts at £480 as opposed to £505, and the fifty-page book is now reduced from £750 to just £620. This reduction is made across the entire range of sizes. The turnaround time for books will however remain at around a week for the design and delivery of proofs and approximately six weeks for the production of the book itself.

Album inclusive package options have been removed from my website due to this change, and I will return to providing albums (of all types) as an optional addition to my normal print packages. This allows couples to book the exact package and album to suit them.

Here is a link to my most recent storybook design which was finished yesterday:

http://www.kwphoto.co.uk/New%20Folder/index.htm

Wedding of Elaine & Ben

Elaine & Ben were married on Saturday 5th January at West Stoke House near Chichester. We hadn’t met until the day, as they had come all the way from Australia to get married here. The ceremony was at 4pm, which meant we had to shoot everything indoors; this had one big advantage for us…we kept warm for once!! We covered their special day from Bridal preparations to the evening celebrations. The photographs will be online later today.

The Wedding of Claire & Neil

On Friday 4th January I photographed the wedding of Claire & Neil at Amberley Castle, which has to be one of my favourite venues in Sussex. I had to work a little extra hard as my assistant was off with the flu but we had a wonderful day and we were very lucky with the weather. The photographs will be online soon, however they have chosen to have their wedding in a password protected area, so unless you know them (and they like you enough to tell you their password!) you’re out of luck other than a little taster below…

Wedding of Jane & Kevin

On Saturday we photographed the wedding of Jane & Kevin at the Maybridge Community Church in Goring. We began at their home in Lancing and followed the proceedings through until the speeches. They are a lovely couple and I wish them all the best for a long and happy future together. Photos will be online in about a week.