Wedding Photography Special

We are currently offering a very special deal at the moment.

Any Wedding photography booking received by the 30th of June 2013 can expect 10% off our already pretty reasonable pricing.

Check www.ctrphotos.com or our facebook page for example images.


Our current packages

Package Name	Inclusions	Normal pricing	Winter/weekday discount
Bronze	4 Hours of photography Unlimited locations within time allocation High Resolution Colour and black & White Jpeg files on Disc	$690	$550
Silver	Coverage until 1st hour of reception Unlimited locations within time allocation High Resolution Colour and black & White Jpeg files on Disc DVD Slideshow disc	$1090	$890
Gold	Coverage until 10pm Unlimited locations within time allocation High Resolution Colour, black & White and Midnight Sepia Jpeg files on Disc DVD Slideshow disc	$1390	$1190

Weekday weddings are considered Monday to Friday excluding public holidays

Winter weddings are considered any day within the period 1^st of June to the 31^st of August

Travel charges may apply outside of Adelaide Metro Area

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/

What equipment would a professional be using

I have been pondering this question for some time, particularly since I look at photographs in a totally different way to what the average person would. In an instant I can usually pick flaws in a photograph but I've noticed that people who don't have any photographic training wont pick up the flaws, they will generally just look at the composition and the colour within the image.

Smaller print sizes can hide significant flaws with photos that will not become apparent until you attempt to print that image at a larger size. Out of focus, lack of sharpness, backfocussing can easily be hidden at small sizes, blow it up and suddenly that nice photo you wanted on canvas in your living room has to be thrown out because it looks like crap.

I cant advise regarding other brand equipment but with Nikon I suggest you look for people who are using pro level equipment as their main camera. Its ok to have a lower level camera as a backup but probably shouldnt be relying on that as their main.

With Nikon its fairly easy to identify which cameras are pro level and which are consumer. To date all consumer slr's have a model which starts with a D and then two digits, ie D50, D80, D90.
All pro level cameras have model numbers with D and three digits or D with one digit (and possibly an X) ie, D200, D300, D3, D2X.
Another way to tell the difference is that pro level cameras have no program or auto modes, the photographer has to think for themselves. Consumer cameras will have a number of program modes such as sports, landscape and portrait.

Lenses are also very important. Generally most lenses under $1,000 are not very sharp, there are some exceptions though. Most professionals would be using lenses which have an apeture of F2.8 or less. These lenses are worth a lot of money however the results are significantly superior to the cheaper lens both in colour and sharpness.
Lenses are probably more important than the camera model, a good photographer will still get fantastic results on the consumer cameras using professional lenses.

So when interviewing photographers look for people using pro level camera bodies as well as pro level lenses, that enlargement you wanted just may depend on it.