[Closed] Help - Getting married in 18 days and haven’t got a photographer

All else fails give the guests single use cameras and make a montage.

My cousin had this lady.

http://katforsyth.com

Seemed good. No idea on cost or whether available, as it's not my job 😀

Is London based, tho.

All else fails give the guests single use cameras and make a montage.

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I don't know what your definition of the earth is, but Denise did our wedding 10 years ago. She's quite good.

https://www.denisewinterphotography.co.uk/

Bit short notice though...

I got married in Guildford.

I'm divorced now. Just saying.

Buy a copy of Hello that's got a celebrity wedding in it and then pay Jamie to photoshop you into the pics?

But then I charge the earth and am not very good.

Do it as a favour... you graphic design types love doing favours, right?

Matt willis - he's in bristol.
Nick Austin - he's somewhere near london.

Job.. jobbed.

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#itjustworks

Do it as a favour... you graphic design types love doing favours, right?

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http://www.whataphoto.co.uk/photo_services.html#!/page_photographic

Based in Fleet.

That green sliver may be exaggerated, usually it’s much smaller.

Is her name Louise?

Find which of your mates has the best camera and tell them they have to take some proper group photos then just get all the other guests to email their photos to you and pick the best.

All else fails give the guests single use cameras and make a montage

This is a really bad idea. You will pay a fortune to get them developed and end up with two usable images that you dont really like.

Pay a profesional ... if you want decent photos.

How many tables?

Buy 10 x cheap digital cameras and SD cards, £500. Sorted.

Buy 10 x cheap digital cameras and SD cards, £500. Sorted.

Again... dont do this.. you will only be disapointed.

Pay a professional.

We have an "artistic" photographer friend and a professional artistic/lecturer photographer friend , the lecture lent his best automatic robot camera to the artist who had been nominated as our official photographer but had left her camera in Germany . Despite being told not to artist played with the settings on the camera and messed up every shot.
The point is we still managed to cobble together a perfectly acceptable collection of photos from the guests including a really nice informal shot of the two of us that is special for not being posed.
Best of luck for the day and the life that follows . Don't sweat the details.

Again... dont do this.. you will only be disapointed.

Plus you have to filter out/in (I ain't judging) all the dick pics.

[url= http://sharpedgephoto.co.uk/ ]Sharp Edge Photography.[/url]
Andrew is a top lad.

how much are you looking to pay ?

I'll do it for £199(plus expenses)*

*I'm not a photographer but have a camera somewhere... I think

It's wedding photos we're discussing, not art. There are only two options; either you get posed photos of every possible permutation of family members (write them down on a ticklist to make sure you don't miss anyone) or you loiter taking supposedly candid shots. I can't believe folk actually have the cheek to charge for it.

Once again, I suggest [url= http://www.ingridweel.com/ ]Ingrid Weel[/url], based in Chertsey.

Excellent reputation.

Give her a ring.

I'm friendly with this guy not far from Guildford, also he rides bikes. People have told me he gives good deal. This seems to be his website but doesn't work for me:

https://www.paulwelby.photography/

Ewan, remember Cassie? Who married the Prawn. She does a bit of wedding work, she goes under the moniker Cassie Hannah photography and is SE london based.

(This is assuming you are the Ewan who I used to ride with along with others who were on Ant's forum/chocolate foot, even if you are not that Ewan it's worth seeing if they are not booked on your day)

It's wedding photos we're discussing, not art. There are only two options; either you get posed photos of every possible permutation of family members (write them down on a ticklist to make sure you don't miss anyone) or you loiter taking supposedly candid shots. I can't believe folk actually have the cheek to charge for it.

When your new wife turns to you and asks why there is no photo of the kiss, or the ring exchange..... saying oh sorry i had my camera on the wrong setting by mistake ... or the light in the church was really bad, sorry thats why the shots are blurry... wont cut it.

Thats what you pay a professional for. Its a one off event, there wont be any second chances to get shots like this.

At a family wedding last year instead of buying disposable cameras for everyone to use, then having the faff of collecting them up and processing them, they signed upto an on-line service where everyone used their smartphones, could upload to the app and anyone could use the photo's thereafter. You can also upload video. Can't remember the name of the app, but i'm sure it'd come up on google.

As for traditional photographers, try a keen amateur. We did, they were cheaper, took loads of photo's and gave you them all at the end - hard copies and memory sticks, and they pass over copyright so you can get them reproduced anywhere you like. Photo's were as good as any i've seen. Downside is you need to sort out an album yourself, but really, who has ever got out their album and looked at it once it goes up in the loft after the wedding?

yes, pay a pro. You (hopefully) won't do it again, and to end up with rubbish or even 'OK' shots will be a disappointment.

I got married 17 years ago at Clandon Park but searching for her I'm not sure she's working any more

http://www.allaboutweybridge.co.uk/aaw/oatlandsstudio.htm

I ride with a guy called Paul Stott, also Woking area, and he's a wedding photographer - can't vouch personally for his wedding work but he's a decent chap and did a good job last weekend taking our club dinner shots, and his portfolio seems decent.

http://paulstott-photography.co.uk/

Mr Smith - I am that Ewan 🙂 Do you have contact details?

Thanks for the other suggestions - will get in contact with a few.

Happy to pay for a professional, just I don't want to go crazy - 600-1000 is the number in my head, but that's not based on much.

Happy to pay for a professional, just I don't want to go crazy - 600-1000 is the number in my head, but that's not based on much.

When we got married (2013), £2k ish was the going rate....

A friend, who is an excellent landscape photographer did it, but to be honest, I wish we'd used a pro as the results were only so so. Wedding photography is flipping hard to do well (I've done 4 weddings now and am never really satisfied with the photos).

£2k ish was the going rate....

Just invite them to the reception by the sounds of it 😀

cassie's website:
[url= http://http://www.cassiehannah.co.uk ]http://www.cassiehannah.co.uk[/url]

2k 😮

Thanks Mr Smith

Paul's website says £1500 but with discounts for midweek and out of season.

But i suspect £600 for a pro job will be 'a stretch' - I paid £517 17 years ago.

Just get a good one of the happy couple. It's not like anyone else is going to look at them again.

I had ours out at the weekend......

(for the first time in years)

That's not entirely true.. we also looked at them a few years ago when we heard devastating news that our venue had been gutted by fire. They've just announced the plans for the rebuild, and I'm counting time and pennies to see if I can afford to have another do there for our 20th or 25th

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/clandon-park

Twice in 20 years, and folk pay £2k for that privilege?

No wonder folk are whinging that They can't afford a deposit on a house when they're wasting money like that

We got a couple of friends to bring decent cameras. Organise the obligatory family shots, then spend the actual money on a holiday.

Depends on your level of vanity/cringe, but also ive seen couples off tramping round with the photographer for a hour or more on a wedding day, wasting time that would be better spent with all those guests and friends.

One of the most stressful things ever done was shooting a friends wedding.

That, the limited working days and the price of quality camera kit explains wedding photogs prices.

MrSmith is a bloomin photographer - I bet he'd do it for a pair of fancy brogues and a pheasant quill for his hat.

£2k?!

My [s]£199[/s] £299 offer is even cheaper than I thought 😉

OP - you might need to talk to your venue about an extra meal to. Seems photographer's can't make butties or have something cheap from the bar menu.

MrSmith is a bloomin photographer - I bet he'd do it for a pair of fancy brogues and a pheasant quill for his hat.

I don't deal with the general public as they are a nightmare, i have enough boots/shoes plus I also like my weekends not to be spent watching badly dressed people dance to 80' pop.
Plus Ewan wouldn't want to pay my day rate. 😉

I have to say it is worth getting a professional, they will get all the required shots. An amateur will miss everything and not be able to manage the crowd...

We used [url= http://www.rachaeledwardsphotography.co.uk/ ]Rachael Edwards[/url] who was excellent. Based in Lewes, but I'd have thought Guildford would be alright.

not be able to manage the crowd...

*is smug about having a photographer booked for September wedding next year*

*is less smug as not discussed fees yet, (as it’s a mate who would be coming to the wedding, were they not taking pics, anyway) and wasn’t aware the going rate was quite that high*

Can anyone recommend a photographer who doesn’t charge the earth and is good.

They usually are expensive for a reason

We got married in September and used Moritz Schmittat. He's based in Guildford and was absolutely brilliant, not too pricey either.

[url= https://schmittat.uk ]Moritz[/url]

We asked a family friend who was a hobby photographer to take our photos, inviting him and his wife to the reception. He had a list of all the shots he wanted to get (bride / groom / family combos) then on top took a few candid shots during the day. The whole thing was very relaxed – we had to wait a week for the results (days before digital) we only had modest expectations but I have to say the results were brilliant. I think not putting too much pressure on our friend helped.

try a keen amateur...they pass over copyright so you can get them reproduced anywhere you like.

I've shot a few weddings, and my sister lives in Woking. I could potentially head for a long-overdue visit and tie in your wedding 😉

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Novelty shots bring a smile

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and last but not least,timing is everything

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Whoever that was is an idiot. Most wedding/photography contracts will offer a licence for the wedding couple/client to reproduce photos as they wish without giving up the copyright. The copyright to original photographic work is worth far more than a couple of hundred quid and if they're explicitly giving it away in their contracts then they're complete mugs!

Or they're just not that bothered about the money....

It requires a conscious and deliberate effort to sign away your copyright forever. Even if you're not bothered about ever exercising it for monetary gain, why deliberately rule it out? You can still adopt a "I don't care" attitude if you see your copyright being abused/violated, but if you've permanently signed it away, there can't ever be a comeback. Seems stupid and short-sighted to me, but hey ho, they're not my photos!

*is less smug as not discussed fees yet, (as it’s a mate who would be coming to the wedding, were they not taking pics, anyway) and wasn’t aware the going rate was quite that high*

I'd be more less smug (yeah, I know) about 'employing' a friend to do something which is potentially really quite important to your Mrs, if not to you!

Oh God, that shot of the cake falling gives me the shudders. Did it a few years ago (working as the photographer) - the venue had done the usual thing of sticking the cake in a dingy corner next to a fire extinguisher and a neon EXIT sign. Got the best man to help me move it out onto the floor and the whole thing just collapsed.

Did the natural thing, which was obviously to try and catch it with my foot - didn't end well but my shoes looked tasty.

Anyway, get a pro in to take all the stress away - there are so many photographers now that you'll get a good one for around the 1K mark and a really good one for a wee bit more - the days of 2K average spend are over. Ask to see a full wedding (very boring but gives you a realistic idea of the way they work). If you're not really a photo kind of a person, don't bother.

Friend is a professional photographer. You have probably seen a great many of their images in a great many cycling publications over the years...

Current smugness rating...

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tomhoward - Member
Friend is a professional photographer. You have probably seen a great many of their images in a great many cycling publications over the years...

Doesn't necessarily mean they'll be any good at a wedding... My wedding photographer was full of the flu so pulled in an acquaintance to help out. Turned out to be the Scottish Wildlife Photographer of the year. Not one of his photos made it to the final cut...

EDITED to say - the photos were technically flawless but were utterly devoid of emotion or any story telling qualities

I’ve seen wedding pics they’ve done before. Not worried.

Friend is a professional photographer. You have probably seen a great many of their images in a great many cycling publications over the years...

Roo Fowler?

Yeah, a friend had a very reputable professional sports photographer and a friend, and they were a bit underwhelmed. Not so much the composition and the actual photos, but how they conducted themselves.

As much as anything though it's about having to negotiate a price with your friend, and risking ending up in a situation where one or other of you is unhappy because he feels he did 'mates rates' and yet you're working him like a dog rather than letting him enjoy the wedding whilst doing some casual snapping, or you feel you paid him a good amount and he missed the first dance and the cutting of the cake because he was doing shots and chatting up the bridesmaid.

Hey Ewan, I'm a wedding photographer! Have a look at some of my work here: [url= https://www.kahumbu.co.uk/ ]www.kahumbu.co.uk[/url].

If that's the sort of style you're both after let me know the dates and details and we'll see if it can work out?

Cheers,

Andy.

Friend is a professional assassin. You have probably seen a great many of their kills in a great many media publications over the years...

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If you want an open, not too formal, reportage style look at Paul Rogers site, he's an ex staff photographer at the Times, his work is outstanding, won a fair few awards of late too.

I don't tink he's overly cheap but you tend to get what you pay for where photography is concerned.

https://rogerspictures.com/

You may be lucky it's a quiet time for weddings.