Wedding Photography Hassocks
Hassocks is only a few miles from where I live. So whether your wedding is locally, perhaps in Hassocks, Ditchling or one of the surrounding villages or towns, why not get in touch. Please check out the rest of this site, the gallery and the you tube video on this page, to give you an idea of the sort of images I capture.
If you are thinking of cutting costs on your wedding photographs, rather than seeing them as an investment, you probably haven’t really understood how important they are.
Memories, even the beautiful ones of a wedding event can fade over the years. However, if you capture the day with professional photography, the memories will remain with you for a lifetime.
Few events in life can match how special your wedding day is. Finding a professional photographer with the skills to capture every small detail is important.
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Here Are the Reasons Why the Wedding Photography Is Vital
When it comes to planning for your wedding day in Hassocks, there is so much to do and hiring a wedding photographer may not be at the top of your to do list.
Your wedding photography does however, deserve some of your time. You need to set a budget for it and get a professional booked well in advance. It’s not always easy to capture those precious moments, so you need a wedding photographer with talent, experience and the right equipment to do your special event justice. When your children and future grandchildren ask you about your wedding, you’ll be able to tell the story of the day by showing them your wedding images.
You’ll turn to your wedding photos many times in the future, recapturing the precious memories of that special day. The day after your wedding in Hassocks, your wedding dress will be packed away, your shoes boxed up, the flowers will wither and you’ll be finishing off the last crumbs of the wedding cake. but you will have your wedding photographs forever and you will be looking over them and sharing them for years to come, so do ensure that you place enough importance on having them done properly!
Why engage a wedding photographer for your big day?
You’ve probably got most of the planning done already if your wedding is fast approaching. You’ve arranged the venue, chosen your cake and booked a caterer. Your wedding dress is getting its final alterations, your flowers are all on order and the decorations and table centrepieces are all in hand.
The wedding photographs are next on the list. Your uncle is a good amateur photographer and perhaps you’re considering asking him.
It wouldn’t cost you anything and you can save yourself some money to budget for other things. This really is not the way that you should proceed.
Your wedding photos should be entrusted to a professional wedding photographer
The benefits you get when you hire a photographer with significant experience of weddings are much greater than the monetary savings you’ll make when you get the photos taken for free. Remember, the glances, the smiles and the connections that happen at a wedding are subtle and to capture them photographically is a skill.
Key benefits of hiring wedding photography professionals
When you hire a specialist wedding photographer, the images you are presented with at the end will be of the highest quality and taken with the best photography equipment available.
Using their knowledge and skills, together with camera and equipment of superior technology and editing with the latest software, your wedding photographer will be able to produce beautiful and unique images that will make your day..
The physical equipment such as cameras, is just part of the equation in terms of capturing the best photographic images. The dramatic improvement in camera phones means that it is very tempting to try and save money on your wedding photos. This could probably be one of the biggest mistakes you make. Every wedding day deserves photographs that are captured skillfully, in the style of your choosing. We’ll take a more in depth look now at what you get when you hire a professional wedding photographer in Hassocks, which adds that extra value and makes it worth your while.
Camera equipment expertise, as well as being able to deal with indoor and outdoor lighting. A wedding photographer will not be able to produce fantastic pictures in all conditions if they don’t have the lenses for the situation, the lighting options, or don’t have the skill to use them. Professional wedding photographers tend to have much better equipment and much more experience in using a diverse range of setups. Anyone can buy a DSLR camera, but it takes great skill to unlock the potential of the equipment. The skill of the person taking the photos is highly important, but they also need the right equipment to produce top results. What you need to get the best wedding photography experience is high end, appropriate camera equipment and a seasoned wedding photography professional who knows how to use it to its full potential. This includes choosing the right equipment and camera settings for indoor and outdoor shots at the venue and the changing conditions at both.
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The Roles of Expert Photographers
Another reason to hire a professional wedding photographer in Hassocks, rather than trusting a family member or a friend with the task, is it they will be less distracted. The role of the professional photographer is very clearly defined, whereas a family member will likely want to get involved in the celebrations where possible.
They wonít miss that crucial loving moment because theyíre eating cake, downing a beer, or chatting with wedding guests. Every moment theyíre there, their focus will be on unobtrusively capturing the best possible images that they can of the event.
Wedding shoots also tend to go much better when guests are engaging with paid, professional photographers. When family members organise a photo session, or an ad hoc photo opportunity, thereís a different dynamic to when a photographer sets up a professional shoot.
The Style of the Photography
In order to attain photos with a specific style, you need to engage a professional wedding photographer with the style to match. Not many amateurs are familiar with the differences between photojournalistic, fine art, traditional or contemporary styles.
Can they deliver what you want the way you want it? Often, they wonít be able to. Donít rush into a decision; think about the style you want and get a photographer that can match it. Go with a professional photographer who can quickly understand what it is you are trying to achieve.
A Reliable and Communicative Professional
A professional photographer is normally a much better choice than an amateur photographer or enthusiast and weíve already touched on a few other reasons so far. Itís easy to understate how a professional photographer can contribute to the day; blending into the background when necessary and getting involved to smooth the schedule and push things along when time is getting tight.
A professional will be able to carry the wedding party along and subtly communicate where your guests need to be. They will have a smooth touch, using body language, cues and verbal commands to get things done while keeping the positive atmosphere of your big day in Hassocks. Amateur photographers, no matter how hard they try, will find it hard to identify the right approach to photo sessions, being distant to a degree, professional, humorous, encouraging and supporting guests through the process, in order to capture those memorable shots.
Professional Wedding Photographers Are a Better Choice
There arenít many people that you will spend more time on your wedding day than your wedding photographer. They will photograph you getting ready and spending time before the event and perhaps be around all the way until you leave the venue.
You wedding photographer has been hired to capture every special moment of the day, whilst staying in the background unnoticed and will do that from start to end. If a photographer knows what they’re doing, they won’t be noticed throughout the day. The photographer is the one who notices every detail out of place such as lipstick stains on the teeth, or wonky button holes etc.
By fixing any little issues they can help you get better images. Your wedding planner will have lots of other things to do and wonít shadow you all day in Hassocks, not like your photographer will. The photographer will help the wedding party and guests be where they need to be and help to calm any emotions.
Patience
Every wedding couple needs to hire a photographer that they feel comfortable around. Considering the amount of time this individual is going to be a major part of your wedding day, you need to choose wisely. You want to be happy that you made the right decision.
The wedding photographer should be technically excellent, patient, empathetic and a great planner. Your personality needs to be captured through the lens and itís their job to help you to be at ease throughout the day in Hassocks. Even if things donít go exactly to plan, the wedding photographer will remain in control, calm and measured, as a reassuring presence. An experienced wedding photographer will flow with the event and will be quick to adapt, always remaining professional.
Hiring a Wedding Photographer and What to Expect?
For most people, the wedding day will be the first time they find themselves in front of a professional photographerís camera lens. This can cause anxiety, especially if you are camera shy or tend to look awkward in photographs.
Having spent some time considering the best professional wedding photographer in Hassocks to match the styles you want, you can now rest assured that they will do certain things to make the process run smoothly.
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Promptness and Professionalism
After looking at a photographer based on their reputation, the passion for their work and their portfolio of previous work, you can feel comfortable that you will have hired someone who is professional. Your wedding photographer should remain polite and courteous at all times, demonstrating a great attitude, good time keeping for every aspect of the schedule and remaining suitably attired throughout the day. Your wedding photographer should get there ahead of schedule to take a look around and find their vantage points for the day.
Wedding Rehearsals
In many cases, church wedding ceremonies have a rehearsal during the week before the wedding. Your wedding photographer may well want to attend this wedding rehearsal to speak to the Vicar about where to stand during the ceremony and to find out more about the venue. If you choose to have a civil ceremony, then it will most likely be a chat with a registrar on the day of the wedding in Hassocks.
Wedding Day (The big day)
Your wedding photographer will tend to arrive to take photos of the bridal presentations, the timings will have been agreed. He will be there for the rest of the day but will not interrupt the flow in any way. Jeff Woodall photography will be poised to capture all of the beautiful moments through the day, without intruding in any way. Jeff Woodall photography will be poised to capture all of the beautiful moments through the day, without intruding in any way.
Your wedding photographer will have a discussion with you sometime after the first dance to find out if you need any more precious moments captured. The photographer will start to backup the photos if you are happy that they have captured all the moments you need. Jeff Woodall photography backs up all wedding pictures captured on the day to separate hard drives and cloud storage keeping them safe in a permanent backup until the end of the editing stage and provided to you. We fully understand that your photographs are precious and need to be looked after.
Getting Your Wedding Photos Edited
Editing is a crucial stage in the wedding photography process and will be completed within the days that follow the event in Hassocks. At the start of the editing stage, the photos need to be sifted through so that the best ones can be selected. Every selected photograph is edited using a light touch approach with only a few subtle edits.
The images provided to clients by Jeff Woodall photography are always high resolution. During post processing, the images undergo some minor editing. They are colour balanced and cropped. Style filters may be applied to some of your wedding images to create a specific look and some will be converted to black and white.
The images are then exported and uploaded to an online password protected gallery, ready to be viewed by you, your friends and family as you wish. You will also be given all high resolution images on a USB stick. If you want to share access to your wedding photos on your own online gallery, weíll give you instructions on how to do so, as well as providing a high-definition backup of all your photos on a USB stick.
Client support - follow-up
Once you have your photos, you’ll be looking for a way to present them and Jeff Woodall photography will be available to discuss the design of wedding photo books and to talk you through wedding album options. Early on you’ll probably decide if you want a digital photo book album and the different colours and styles that you will require, but it’ll probably take you a while after your wedding ceremony to decide which of the images you are going to want to include.
Your photographer will guide you through how many photos to choose and how best to tell the story and we’ll probably suggest around 80 photos. The design of the album is then carried out by your photographer.
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Wedding photography packages what is included?
To find out more about what wedding packages normally include. Some of the details are given, others you may need to pay careful attention to. Which events you want the photographer at.
You can choose to have the photographer at any event including the engagement party, the bridal shower, the wedding ceremony and of course the wedding reception and after party. Some of the events the photographer will almost certainly be at, include the wedding ceremony and the after party, but you need to decide whether he attends the bridal shower, the engagement party and how long he stays on during the after party. Following discussion and decisions you need to get the dates organised and communicate them to the photographer.
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How many hours you want the photographer for the shoot in Hassocks
Typically, a photographer will work out pricing based on the number of hours they need to put into any assignment. At Jeff Woodall photography this is normally the way we price up events and portraits, but with weddings the process has been simplified because we understand that each day is completely different, timings are personal and we need to be flexible to capture the flow of your wedding events.
I used to offer a variety of wedding packages in Hassocks, just as many photographers still do, such as Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze. When you start adding extras to these packages it all becomes a bit of a logistical nightmare to understand or work out the overall price. I now prefer to work on a fixed price for the full day’s coverage. I understand that there may be an extra hour here or there due to delays etc. The last thing you want to hear after that, is that you have been billed for an extra hour, as you only paid for the Silver package of eight hours and for various reasons things ran late. In cases where weddings are overseas, or in remote locations, there would need to be some negotiation regarding fuel or flights, food and accommodation.
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Some of the differences between wedding styles explained
Fine Art Photography
Similar to photojournalistic photography, fine art photographers rarely take traditional shots. Rather, they photograph with an appreciation for the artistic side of people, the lighting options and the overall drama of the scene. The Fine Art photographer in Hassocks prefers to pack their photos with art and drama, often using black and white as a filter.
Vintage Style Photography
This style of photography was borne partly from the popularity of vintage photo filters. More and more weddings are seeing photographers using a vintage photography style. With vintage images there is certainly a timeless quality that can stir nostalgic emotion, which may be the cause of such an increase in the appeal of this artistic style. Vintage photography done well in Hassocks, transforms ordinary images into artistic work of art using colour filters and various props and lighting tricks.
Traditional or Classical
Even apparently spontaneous shots are often treated as staged portrait pictures with traditional or classical photography. This won’t make the photograph appear forced or posed, but it’s likely that few spontaneous shots will be included in the mix. The wedding ceremony will be captured with the aim of taking pictures that are artistic and functional, but perhaps driven less by drama or emotion.
Photojournalistic or Reportage
Photojournalism photography focuses on the actual moments that happen, rather than staging them. Group shots will be taken as required, as well as candid and spontaneous images. There are few formal roundups and guests smiling for the shot. The photo journalistic photographer is all about immortalizing the spontaneous reactions and emotions of the day as they happen, rather than orchestrating and staging their images.
Black and White (Monochrome)
The black and white style is excellent for creating nostalgic and timeless photographs. Many clients appreciate how the nostalgia and mood of images can be enhanced by removing colour. It’s all about preference. Some people really don’t like monochrome images, but black and white photographs can tend to enhance the feeling of atmosphere when done well, helping to focus attention on the subjects of the images. Black and white photographs have the capacity to really enhance the atmosphere of an image, that is sometimes lost in the colour option.
Colour Popped and HDR Techniques
Attention to detail during the shoot and excellent editing skills are required for this type of photography technique. Photographers who use HDR and colour popping techniques have the awareness, the creative eye and the technical photographic and editing capabilities to produce stunning images.
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