Had a great afternoon at the Queensferry Hotel wedding fair on Sunday so thought I’d post some photos from Lynn and James wedding which was held at this venue just a couple of weeks earlier.
The photo spreads here are from a Storybook album I designed in time for the wedding fair, so what you are looking at are double page spreads. The Hotel already has a
Bellissimo sample album of mine but we thought it would be good to show off a really fresh and recent wedding in a different style Storybook album in time for the wedding fair.
This album is a 12 x 12 Designer Storybook which is personalised to fit each wedding. When you go round wedding fairs, particularly the wedding fairs with many photographers, you will notice that most of the albums look very much the same as wedding photographers tend to use the template software supplied by the album manufacturer.
As I do a lot of magazine and commercial work I am one of the few
wedding photographers in Edinburgh that does not use the templates but creates each album from a blank canvas which allows me to give bespoke design so that each and every album is unique. You’ll notice from the pages here how I deliberately took a number of photographs on the day to use as tailored backgrounds for some of the pages. So you have close ups of the bouquets, floral arrangements, chair sashes, etc which of course personalise the album so it fits and marries with the overall feel of the day and the bride and groom themselves.
You may also notice how many page backgrounds are textured or have had a smooth sheen applied (these may not show up as well on your computer screen as they do in the flesh so to speak but hopefully it will be adequate for you to appreciate the difference) which gives the pages a nice weddingy feel. It is impossible to do this with a template system as they mostly work in solid colours only (hence why a lot photographers albums only have black or white pages).
The beauty and flexibility of this is that I can also incorporate your own ideas into the album design as well. Many couples enjoy this and give some great creative input. I send through page proofs at every stage of the design for comments, amendments and approval so your finished album is exactly the way you want it to be.
This Sunday I’ll be at The Point Hotel wedding fair with plenty sample albums including a real life wedding from the Point Hotel, too. One thing I must point out after over hearing comments from the last two previous wedding fairs is that all the photographs I use, both on my website and in my albums, are from genuine weddings that I have photographed. Some girls have passed comment that they thought the brides and grooms were models.
I view these comments as enormous compliments as it’s a great reflection on the quality of my photography but just for the record let me make clear that none of the girls or the guys are models.
If you would like to see some wedding photos where I’ve used models then have a look at my
facebook page. I did a photo shoot yesterday for the newly refurbished Brunton Theatre for their wedding brochure which will be coming out soon. I was booked by the PR company to do the
commercial shots and also the wedding photographs and they brought along their own models. I was quite honoured to be booked for this as the PR company are based in England and do not know any photographers in Scotland. They simply googled -
wedding photographer Edinburgh and compared the photographs on everyone websites.
I have another similar job tomorrow at The Caves in Edinburgh, another great and unique wedding venue. I will blog some photos from a recent wedding at The Caves very soon to show just how atmospheric it is. It seems 2012 must be the time for all the top venues to put together new wedding brochures. So far this I’ve already done work for Melville Castle, Shieldhill Castle, Oxenfoord Castle,
House and the Royal Terrace Hotel. After completing the Brunton Theatre yesterday and then The Caves tomorrow I’m booked to do a photo-shoot at the Scotsman Hotel. Most of these venues when the shoot is complete make me wine and dine in their posh restaurants, on the house. So it really is a hard life!
Note: if you click on any of the photo spreads it will open up the larger gallery style viewer so you can see the images better.
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