Aythorpe Roding is near Great Dunmow in the Essex countryside and is lovely setting for a wedding.

The area just outside the church isn’t very big but is very picturesque.

But around the back of the church I found a great backdrop for some romantic shots.

As travelled down the little path I found an open area which would be perfect for group shots and still have the church in the background.

By Dean Robson – RT Weddings (May 2010) Professional Wedding Photographer for Essex, Hertfordshire, and Kent

The hardback cover can now have a photo on it as well as the wedding details on the front.

The photos can now span the pages and lay flat when the book is opened.

This product will go on sale at the same price as the previous product giving my customers an amazing deal for 2010. Great idea for a parents book or special gift.

The books can be produced in 26 page, 34 page and 42 page options and can contain between 60-70, 70-90 and 90 – 120 photographs in the respective sizes.

An amazing product, bespokely designed and at great value too! For more information please visit the Wedding Photo Book page in my products section of the website.

By Dean Robson – RT Weddings (March 2010) Professional Wedding Photographer for Essex, Hertfordshire, and Kent

In the next shot I actually added the confetti to a shot without, this can help if churches or venues do not permit the use of confetti.

By Dean Robson – RT Weddings (March 2010) Professional Wedding Photographer for Essex, Hertfordshire, and Kent

I know this style wont be to everyones taste but it does show that I can offer more abstract styles when asked to do so. I will be posting some other after effects on my blog soon and have created a category called Digital Effects for this purpose.

By Dean Robson – RT Weddings (March 2010) Professional Wedding Photographer for Essex, Hertfordshire, and Kent

Any consumer can take a photograph on their compact camera, then take the file to a local photo outlet and obtain prints for a little as £0.30 for an 7×5 inch print (using Boots photo as an example) . Yes they will receive a print back, but is it a professional print and I mean that in the full sense of the word professional?

A professional photographer will have devoted years of time perfecting their skills in both composition and also in camera operation and techniques. They will also have invested a small fortune in the equipment they use (highend digital SLR’s with the highest quality optical lenses) to ensure the best quality when for capturing every image.

It doesn’t stop there: After the photograph has been taken, the photographer will spend a great deal of time colour grading and digitally enhancing each photograph, using professional software (I like to use Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, which are dedicated for professional photographers). The photographer may upload the photographs to a gallery/shop website where the customer, their friends and family can see the photographs on a password protected site and have the option to buy prints directly (I use a service called Phototrade).

If a customer does order a print then it will be retouched and re-checked for colour, contrast and exposure and will be adjusted to the optimum settings for a professional lab to then print. Using a professional lab is more expensive than using a consumer outlet because the machine calibration, paper and printing standards are that much higher.

The prints will be dispatched via a professional courier ensuring they are delivered back to the photographer in perfect condition and on time. The prints are checked again, before being mounted into strut mounts and safely packed into non-bendable packaging ready for sending to the customers. So to recap:

• Professionally composed photographs
• Professionally captured images on highend cameras
• Professionally colour graded and digitally enhanced photographs
• Professionally displayed on a on-line gallery
• Professionally retouched images
• Professionally printed by a photographic lab
• Professionally delivered by courier
• Professionally displayed in a mount and despatched to the customer

As well as the above, it is likely that the photographer will have incurred a cost getting to the shoot or even encountered some costs during the shoot, especially if it is a wedding or an evening event, so some of these costs will also be hidden into the print prices. Not forgetting public liability insurance and business insurance for the equipment, and an even greater margin is the advertising and marketing costs, these costs all have to be recovered from all aspects of the business.

I have looked at my competitors professional print prices, tryed to be as competitive as possible and am able to offer my prints at these very reasonable prices:

• 6×4 inch print in a mount – £6.95
• 7×5 inch print in a mount – £7.95
• 8×6 inch print in a mount – £8.95
• 10×8 inch print in a mount – £11.95

Professional photographs are like that of “Art or Crafts”, you are paying for the “artistic nature” of a photograph “not the paper” it is printed on. In that sense photographers could charge any value that they feel customers will happily pay, so it is not unknown for photographers to charge in excess of £100 for a single print. The rights of the photograph usually remain with the photographer unless released under licence, and are also subject to copyright laws.

By Dean Robson – RT Weddings (November 2009) Professional Wedding Photographer for Hertfordshire, Essex and Kent

Creeksea Place is a wedding photographers dream venue! There is an amazing mansion house which provides the ideal backdrop for some stylish looking wedding photographs.

From the moment you arrive up the gravel drive way after a journey into the middle of nowhere it seems, you find this amazing gem of a venue.

I was extremely proud to be told that Creeksea Place would like to recommend me after they saw the work I produced back in August on Nicole and Tim’s wedding.

There are parts of the grounds used on the wedding day, the front garden of the house for the ceremony, and the back garden area for the wedding drinks, group shots and marquee for the wedding breakfast.

The house looks great from pretty much every angle, plus the use of the lake and old bridge are an added bonus.

I am really looking forward to photographing more weddings at Creeksea Place and working alongside the great team at the venue.

By Dean Robson – RT Weddings (October 2009) Professional Wedding Photographer for Hertfordshire, Essex and Kent

I try to meet up with all my couples around 6-8 weeks before their wedding day to check over the timings and take a look around the venue with them. I am really looking forward to photographing their wedding. To see a previous wedding photographed at Crondon Park click here.

By Dean Robson – RT Weddings (September 2009) Wedding Photographer for Hertfordshire, Essex and Kent

It was quite a challenge to photograph the wedding without capturing the film crew in the shots, but if you take a look at the previous blog article about this wedding you can see we did pull it off.

The three other brides arrived in blind folds as it had been a secret about the wedding taking place at London Zoo.

They were guests at the wedding and as part of the show had to rate the wedding on various criteria.

Well I can officially say wedding photography “As Seen On TV” now. Our couple came 2nd in the competition, but definitely had the wedding of their dreams. I personally enjoyed photographing their day and was intrigued by all the television crew activity going on around me. Although there was a film crew of about 10 people not everyone noticed the cameras were on them.

By Dean Robson – RT Weddings (August 2009) Wedding Photographer for Hertfordshire, Essex and Kent

As it was a nice morning I took a few shots as a small engagement shoot aswell as some of the venue.

Quendon Hall has some wonderful grounds and is a great setting for a wedding.

I am really looking forward to photographing their wedding and hope for nice weather on the day too.

By Dean Robson – RT Weddings (July 2009) Wedding Photographer for Hertfordshire, Essex and Kent

The couple seem great and I am sure we can take many photo opportunities at their locations on the wedding day.

By Dean Robson – RT Weddings (July 2009) Wedding Photographer for Hertfordshire, Essex and Kent