Mike & Sara Ambrose wedding in Bath
I don’t get much opportunity to shoot weddings which is such a shame as I do really enjoy shooting them. I deal with weddings in a similar way that I shoot my military work. I like to get as much preparation time in that I can. I don’t like shooting to a formula, but over time you get to know what shots work and which ones don’t. As photographers we work to our strengths and one photographer is very different to another.
The wedding of Mike and Sara was given to me by a colleague as they already had a booking and to do the wedding I made the long journey from Germany, which meant that I didn’t get to meet the Bride and Groom until the day before the wedding, or go to see the venues.
I shot this wedding with a friend as my second shooter, Jim (Will) Williams, who I have worked with on a number of occasions and some of his images were simply stunning.
This wedding was a little different from any I have shot before as I was only required to shoot from the arrival at church to the start of the wedding breakfast. In total about 4 hours which included a trip through the centre of Bath on the Jubilee weekend Saturday. Everything went to plan and apart from the wedding car breaking down as well as the bus laid on for the guests. The Bride and Groom were the definition of laid back which made this a pleasure.
The official images were handed over to my colleague to process so I have had the opportunity to be a little bit bolder with my own processing and I have done them in a way that is unusual for me, but then, why not?
Please feel free to look through the images and give me your feedback on them.
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Hi,great blog! Just out of interest.. do you need permission to publish the photos you make for people? I am looking into becoming a (wedding) photographer myself (I’m Roxy’s old flatmate so I follow you on Facebook, to love & learn 🙂 ciao
Hi Yo, yes I remember you. Lol. There are a couple of points of view here. As the creator of the image you own the copyright and can actually use images to promote however I always ask clients permission to use their images (or images of them) for promotion on the blog or on Fb. Of course rules can vary from country to country so I would recommend checking out the circumstances in Holland. What you can also do is use a contract that covers the use of images for promotion. Hope this helps and thanks for the comment.