Wedding photographer – Glasgow

Hello all…

Any recommendations for a wedding photographer in Glasgow?

On a budget, so just want a basic package- outside the church shots only.

Cheers

Paul

Drop these guys an email: http://www.composephotography.com/

couldawoodashouda of this parish is a wedding photog.

http://www.wedding-photographer-glasgow.co.uk/

http://singletrackworld.com/members/couldashouldawoulda/profile/

Hi Paul,

Congratulations!

I can highly recommend http://www.lighthousestudios.co.uk/index2.php#/home/

Small family owned studio with award winning photographer Seppi Preston and very reasonable. Based in Stirling and will easily accommodate Glasgow.

Give Dave Taylor a shout, you won’t be disappointed.

http://www.davetaylorphotography.com/

Cheers all.

I’ll drop them all an email.

One thing I am struggling with is finding a photographer just to do the simplest of packages- we just want a set of us outside the church. Don’t really want the bride at home to first dance thing…

I will ask and see.

Thanks again!

Paul

This is my mate Dougie, who does a lot of outdoors type photography as well as the wedding stuff. Sure he can be flexible around packages:
http://leadinglinesphotography.net/category/photography/wedding/

His blog is well worth a read as well.

Try David Loney. http://Www.dandmloney.co.uk

He did our wedding a couple of years ago, and has subsequently done some family portraits for us. Really nice guy, great photos and not as expensive as some of your city based cowboys

A wee bump for the evening crowd…

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Did ours last year – think we paid £700 for pics without album. We ended up with about 300 and have the rights to them all. He’s based in West Lothian so would probably travel to Glasgow if you went with him.

Slight hijack, apologies, but any recommendations for ones in West Yorkshire?

£700? For wedding pictures?

Wow.

I’m in the fortunate position of never having been married, but that sounds like an awful lot of money for a set of pictures that will not really see the light of day for more than a few family gatherings.

Is that really how much it costs?

Crikey- Seems like it…

Cheers again all- emails away to all the above.

🙂

West Yorkshire, big or little budget?

Ouch.

http://www.craigsandersphotography.co.uk/weddings/index.html

wysiwyg – prepared to pay for quality! However, £700 as quoted above is about as much as I would want to spend.

Hi Paul. I’m busy for your date but hopefully can help. YGM .

crikey – yes, and the price we paid was far cheaper than some of the other companies around. Basically as soon as you mention ‘wedding’ for anything, the price goes up. We know some people who ended up with 30 pics for over a grand as the company retained copyright to the rest of them. Some right cowboys out there.

Friends company in Glasgow i can recommend –

http://www.photologue.co.uk

The other half…. http://www.lizsmithphotography.co.uk/

http://www.jamesrobertsonphotography.co.uk/?p=45
he’s in edinburgh but happy to travel

I’m quite good with my Blackberry phone camera, just keep me oiled and fed 8)

Congratulations by the way

Cheers Hora- I may take you up on that. I think we may have left it a bit late…

crikey – I know it all sounds like a lot of money, but… for me it’s at least 3-4 days work in total to do most weddings including the processing, possibly more like a week. Then if you factor in the expensive gear you need to do it well, the nice leather bound albums/samples etc, It’s really not a license to print money at all, at least not these days.

Also, after everyone has long forgotten how much free booze there was, how tight the band played, how nice the beef tasted etc – some great pictures are the things that will remain for years to come to help with the memories. I know I would say all this but it’s true IMO.

I’m just getting going with my wedding photo stuff really and it’s involved an awful lot of hard work/learning/training.

Able to cover W Yorkshire btw – could do Glasgow also and I do shorter packages. Not really ‘cheap’ though – http://www.grahamwynnephoto.com

I’m a picture framer so i’ve seen more than my fair share of wedding photo’s over the years.
The best in the Glasgow/Surrounding areas is 1500 photography. Stuart woods his name.
Check him out if nothing else.

Alot of money? My friend sometimes works for 15+hours in the day -from the bride having her makeup, getting up right through to when they turn the lights off at the end of the night. Shes non-stop, food is provided for her if she wants it but often shes ‘on it’ – looking for the shot, mingling, on her feet shooting.

I bet she takes thousands of pics but spends alot of time post-wedding day combing through them and selecting.

If you want to look at the expenses I bet she takes 3days in total, the materials, petrol, the cost of herself working, lighting/phonecalls/emails etc. Sometimes she’ll also stay overnight.

I bet once upon a time it was a case of a bloke turned up with a few reels of film in his bag, shot them and left after 1-2hours of the ceremony but nowadays the Bride wants it PERFECT, she wants quality, memories of the day, the whole day and she doesn’t want a noddy who will say ‘oops sorry my cameras not working properly’ or isn’t really good at all.

The cameras BTW (the proper ones, not hobby ones) cost ALOT.. plus decent professionals can change them every year.

Funnily enough Hora, we want the second option- we don’t really want a photographer there all day. Just for the traditional outside the wedding stuff.

But understand the expense and the costs- not an easy job at all.

plus you have to give up just about every summer weekend and deal with the expectations of the general public.
(why i wouldn’t touch wedding photography with a barge pole)

Gee thanks for that hora. I never knew that cameras cost a LOT… Or that people can work
12 hour days and not stop for a proper meal.

Things are worth what people will pay for them, and I can see that people pay that kind of money. I wouldn’t, but that’s me. I suspect that the popularity of photography as an activity will increase competition, and maybe those prices will change. Dunno.

Thats the thing crikey, as mrsmith noted alot of the photographers customers have your mindset but expect the world and begrudge the cost which ends up becoming very stressful/difficult to deal with.

Those sort of customers should just pop down the Registry office in their Next Suit/Principles dress then on to Brewers Fayre for a Cavery IMO.

Hora, shut up eh?

You haven’t the faintest idea what my mindset is, and I’m not interested in your middle class snobbery with regards to where people get married, or what they are wearing when they do so.

I’m not asking anyone to justify their prices, nor am I making judgements about anyone except you, because you are a buffoon.

And there are PLENTY of photographers who will charge you £400 to ‘capture your whole day’ for just such weddings 🙂 The photos will be sickeningly bad, but some folk don’t care, which is fair enough.

tootallpaul – I’d be absolutely gobsmacked if you couldn’t find someone to pop down for three hours on your wedding day and take a few formal groups for not too much moolah. A quick ring round the first page of this directory of Glasgow wedding photographers should do the job nicely. Ignore the listings with spot colouring and odd ‘vintage’ processing and you’ll be fine.

I suspect that the popularity of photography as an activity will increase competition, and maybe those prices will change. Dunno.

have the £100 full suss bikes in halfords made Orange drop the prices of their MTB’s?

it’s about quality* not purely offering a service.

*as can be seen from some of the links above quality does vary.

Crikey once I had your viewpoint but I can understand the cost/time/quality aspect conumdrum.

OP Some wedding photographers ‘contract out’ their workload. This is something to be wary of even if you get it on the cheap. I.e. you’ll see someones portfolio then on the day the friends ‘business partner’ shows up. Too late to cancel/think about but I imagine it goes on a fair bit with weddings. So….. remember to check that the portfolio work is THE person taking the photos on the day! 😀

IMO the photos remind you of the event long after the food and drink tasted have left your system.

Hora, I’ve already explained that you haven’t got the foggiest little inkling what my viewpoint is. You do seem to be assuming that you can allow me to benefit from your vast experience of getting married once, but I have no interest in your marriage, or in how much you paid, or in your contempt for people less well off than you.

I’m not married though, so if you fancy proposing to me? 8)

Yes, very apt.

Alot of money? My friend sometimes works for 15+hours in the day -from the bride having her makeup, getting up right through to when they turn the lights off at the end of the night. Shes non-stop, food is provided for her if she wants it but often shes ‘on it’ – looking for the shot, mingling, on her feet shooting.

I bet she takes thousands of pics but spends alot of time post-wedding day combing through them and selecting.

If you want to look at the expenses I bet she takes 3days in total, the materials, petrol, the cost of herself working, lighting/phonecalls/emails etc. Sometimes she’ll also stay overnight.

I bet once upon a time it was a case of a bloke turned up with a few reels of film in his bag, shot them and left after 1-2hours of the ceremony but nowadays the Bride wants it PERFECT, she wants quality, memories of the day, the whole day and she doesn’t want a noddy who will say ‘oops sorry my cameras not working properly’ or isn’t really good at all.

The cameras BTW (the proper ones, not hobby ones) cost ALOT.. plus decent professionals can change them every year.

FFS

It’s “a lot”

Not “alot”