Hayley and Aram's Wedding

Another day where the sky was a bit threatening and it did rain. Luckily the rain held off until we made it to the reception. The ceremony was a small church in Westbourne Park and the reception was at the Glandore Community Centre.

Here's a few photos from the day. We had plenty of time and visited Veale Gardens, Art Alley and Pinky Flat.

 Camera Settings  ISO - 1250   Shutter Speed - 1/500   F-Stop - 2.8    Focal Length - 70mm

 Camera Settings  ISO - 1600   Shutter Speed - 1/160   F-Stop - 5    Focal Length - 38mm

Veale Gardens

 Camera Settings  ISO - 200   Shutter Speed - 1/800   F-Stop - 8    Focal Length - 24mm

Art Alley

 Camera Settings  ISO - 320   Shutter Speed - 1/100   F-Stop - 5.6    Focal Length - 24mm

Art Alley

 Camera Settings  ISO - 200   Shutter Speed - 1/200   F-Stop - 2.8    Focal Length - 70mm

Art Alley

 Camera Settings  ISO - 200   Shutter Speed - 1/1250   F-Stop - 2.8    Focal Length - 98mm

Art Alley

 Camera Settings  ISO - 200   Shutter Speed - 1/160   F-Stop - 5.6   Focal Length - 70mm

Pinky Flat

 Camera Settings  ISO - 320   Shutter Speed - 1/80   F-Stop - 5.6    Focal Length - 14mm

Pinky Flat

 Camera Settings  ISO - 320   Shutter Speed - 1/2500   F-Stop - 2.8    Focal Length - 15mm

Pinky Flat

 Camera Settings  ISO - 320   Shutter Speed - 1/800   F-Stop - 5.6    Focal Length - 14mm

Pinky Flat

 Camera Settings  ISO - 320   Shutter Speed - 1/800   F-Stop - 6.3    Focal Length - 14mm

Pinky Flat

 Camera Settings  ISO - 320   Shutter Speed - 1/1000   F-Stop - 6.3    Focal Length - 14mm

Congratulations to Hayley and Aram.

If you would like to talk to us about your wedding check out our website at http://www.ctrphotos.com/

David and Hayley's Wedding

David and Hayley were married on the 2nd of March and I was lucky enough to be their photographer for the day.


The weather looked a bit threatening at times on the day but no rain arrived to spoil the day.
The lovely couple held their ceremony at Westminster College and then the reception at the Seacliff beach hotel. Photos were taken at Westminster and at seacliff.

Congrats to David and Hayley!!!!

The detail on Hayley's beautiful dress

Camera settings ISO - 1000     Shutter speed - 1/100  F Stop - 3.2  Focal Length - 38mm 

The beautiful Hayley

Camera settings   ISO - 2000   Shutter speed - 1/80   F Stop - 2.8   Focal Length - 34mm

The Ceremony Location - Westminster College

Camera settings   ISO - 400   Shutter speed - 1/1000   F Stop - 9   Focal Length - 24mm

My Favourite of the happy couple taken at Westminster

Camera settings   ISO - 400   Shutter speed - 1/125   F Stop - 2.8   Focal Length - 24mm

The view at dinner time

Camera settings   ISO - 400   Shutter speed - 1/6400   F Stop - 11   Focal Length - 70mm

The Standout of the day, taken about 10 minutes after the sun had dipped below the horizon, the lighting comes from my portable 100w spotlight, a similar effect could be achieved with flash. I love this photo as we catch the last moments of sunlight left in the sky in the background and we happened to catch the first star of the night just above them.

Camera settings ISO - 2000 Shutter speed - 1/125 F Stop - 3.2 Focal Length - 24mm

A Couple of my favourite photos

Well these photos have been taken recently and are two of my favourite photos of all time. Keep in mind these two are straight out of camera, no editing has been done to them at this stage. The advantages of having a wedding at this time of year...beautiful light like this at 5:30-6:00pm rather than 9:00pm :-)

So you want to be a Wedding Photographer

We get a lot of enquiries from people wanting to get involved in wedding photography, the majority of which we dont even consider. For us to even consider a request we straight away look at the following,

The first question we will ask is are you prepared to sign a non-disclosure and non-compete agreement. If the answer is no, its thanks but no thanks straight away. Why you ask, well for a couple of reasons.
One, we dont want to spend time and expense giving someone the exposure and training for them just to turn around and directly compete with us at the first opportunity they get. So this is the non-compete part of the agreement, we have built in an out clause and /or time period that someone cant directly compete against us.
Two is the non-disclosure part, as we are training someone its very difficult not to share critical information that they can use to compete against us, obviously we cant and dont want people using information they have gathered being used to compete against us in any manner. This also protects our clients information for unauthorised release/usage.

The second question we will ask is what equipment you are currently using. The reason we ask this is it will give us an indication of how serious the person is about photography and whether they have equipment which will provide a quality level that we would be happy to provide our customers. We might also ask some questions around how the camera is used, depending on which modes people use regularly will tell us whether they have potential to be a wedding photographer.

Bottom line is we shouldnt have to be teaching some how to use their camera, the idea is that we would be teaching someone about weddings not photography, and more importantly we generally look for people who are happy to work for us, not using us to get involved and compete against us.

Around the end of september we will probably be looking for people so if you know anyone who maybe interested let us know through our website http://www.ctrphotos.com/