We are a husband-and-wife photography business in Wakefield, West Yorkshire specialising in wedding photography, portrait photography, engagement and fashion photography. We love working with people and seeing smiles on the faces we photograph. We are a friendly couple and try our best to make our wedding and studio shoots fun and relaxed. We hope to hear from you and if you haven’t seen it yet, our wedding website is here.
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Here are a few images from Sarah & Ricky’s wedding. The wedding day was perfect and even the rain held off, keeping our beautiful bride dry and smiling. We were blessed to be able to photograph their wedding.
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With the impending demise of our beloved wedding album supplier, Spicer Hallfield we have had to find a new supplier that could deliver the very best wedding albums available on the market today.
Two suppliers have been identified, GraphiStudio and Finao.
Finao Wedding Albums
GraphiStudio is the safe option as they have a local distribution base but we do love the fun, funky and very professional service offered by US based supplier Finao and will be offering Finao albums as part of our new wedding album packages. Meanwhile, for clients who want a different style of album with a perspex or metal cover, GraphiStudio offer very professional high quality wedding albums and we will also offer their range of products as part of our new, soon to be released wedding packages.
GraphiStudio Wedding Albums
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Our primary album supplier Spicer Hallfield is reportedly set to close its doors imminently as reported by ePhotozine.
SH will be sorely missed and I wonder what will happen to the recently released Eye range of products. Will it be bought out by another supplier or is SH and it’s Eye range doomed to disappear… another victim of the credit crunch?
We are now switching to US supplier of high quality wedding albums Finao and here’s hoping we can easily get the same or better quality from them.
Our wedding clients need not fear as we will supply them with the ablums and photobooks they want no matter what, but it is a shame about Spicer Hallfield if the rumours are true.
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We are very excited about Sarah & Ricky’s wedding in two weeks time in Sharlston West Yorkshire. We visited the church and reception venue with the couple and their two little ones yesterday and everything is a go for the wedding day.
Sarah, Ricky and the kids
Sarah & Ricky have booked our full wedding package which means we will be joining Sarah early on the wedding day morning to photograph the start of the preparations.
We will then spend the rest of the wedding day with the couple, documenting the whole wedding until the reception in the evening. Sarah & Ricky’s wedding album will be one of the beautiful albums from Spicer Hallfield’s Eye range.
We wish Sarah & Ricky the best of luck with the rest of the wedding preparations and we will see them bright and early on the wedding day.
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Here’s a good tip for any wannabe wedding photographers out there, invest in noise reduction/removal software like Noise Ninja by PictureCode.
Unless you are lucky enough to live in the Caribbean, wedding ceremonies (and most receptions) are held indoors with artificial light sources. Most of the time the low quantity of artificial light means you’ll be shooting at a high ISO, which means noise.
Now, unless you have inherited alot of money from your gran and can afford a D3, your wedding images will be noisy, and there are a limited number of noisy black and white images of the ceremony you can put in the wedding album before it starts looking a bit suspect. Get yourself a professional software package like Noise Ninja (which costs alot less than a D3 – I’m a Canon user anyway!) and you might just be able to keep a few of those noisy indoor wedding images in colour.
It’s not the end all and wont solve all your problems and, before relying on the noise reduction software too much, rather try and get more light into the venue and get the shot right in camera. But if the priest is grumpy and doesn’t like flash and the venue owners are unhelpful and wont let you put up your video lights then kick up the ISO and use some software to try and save your butt.
Example:
An example image quickly treated by Noise Ninja
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Steve Gerrard posted a link to this article on his blog Bridal Soup and we can relate.
Great blog post Steve, may potential brides the world over read the excellent stress busting tips at the bottom of the post.
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I actually worked out that we have around 2.5 hours free per week. That is just crazy and I always feel we’re not getting enough done.
The next few months are going to be even more hectic as we have quite a few weddings on the calendar. Apart from the weddings there’s also all the portraiture and fashion shoots we want to do and I have just finished redesigning our portrait website (after being inspired by some website critiques on Zack Arias’s website) and blog (http://www.hedward.com)
No wonder most photographer’s blogs are updated every day around 01:30 AM.
What a life! Wouldn’t change it for anything.
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Staying ahead of the constant advancements in technology these days is a fulltime job in itself.
Luckily there are resources available that make it so much easier, like the Lightroom 2 video tutorials created by Julieanne Kost (to be found here)
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Tutorials
So if you are struggling with all the new features that LR2 provides or just want to find out how to use the great new ‘Picture Package’ feature in LR2 then sit back and watch the tutorial.
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We just have to make mention of the blog of San Francisco based photographer Anna Kuperberg. We love her photographic style and like to think it resembles our own. We have an intimate style of wedding photography and the aim of our imagery is to capture and portray emotion and Anna does exactly that in her imagery.
KuperBlog - Anna Kuperberg's photo blog
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Credit crunch or no credit crunch, the bookings are still coming in.
We were booked by another couple today for a wedding in August and we are looking forward to it. Our DVD package was chosen as our client is a designer by trade and would prefer to design and print his own wedding album. We wish them the very best with the wedding preparations and look forward to visiting the wedding venue in 5 months time.
Kirkheaton Parish Church wedding
The summer is quickly filling with bookings and 2010 is set to be a very busy year with overseas weddings being added to our schedule. We will be updating this blog with some very interesting wedding news in future. 
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