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Charges for Wedding Photography
Michael Gradwell
Photography offers top quality photographic coverage and excellent value for
money. In 2007 Michael commissioned a professional company to check that he
offers the best value for money in
New for 2008 - You get
the copyright! The charge for wedding photography has always included the
pre-wedding meeting in order to look at the venue and get your input into where
photos should be taken. It has always included photography on the day for as
long as you want Michael to be there. In 2008 it also includes the photos on
disc so that you can get as many prints as you want at High Street costs. Perhaps
you want a canvas print. Now, with the copyright, you can decide how you would
like your photos printed at any time.
All packages include Michael
Gradwell photographic services for a pre-wedding meeting and unlimited photo
time on the wedding day. Generally photos are taken from early preparations to
the "artificial" cutting of the cake, but Michael will take photos of the first
dance. The day is based on your requirements. Michael added "if I am chosen as
the photographer then the main benefit to the bride and groom is my time. I
look at every photo and crop and sharpen them. I use techniques like blur and
vignette. I make some prints sepia and others black and white. You can tell my
favourite photos because you will receive two or three variations of the same
photo".
Bronze Package.
You have the copyright
and you receive a CD-Rom of all the photos. You also receive a guaranteed 100
to 150 photos, but the final number depends on the opportunities for taking the
photos. Very often the final number is well over 200. The photos are cropped to
6" x 4".
Price £399
Silver Package.
You get everything in
the Bronze Package. You will receive all the 6" x 4" photos and two CD-Roms. One will have all the photos cropped to 6" x 4" and
the other will have all the photos cropped to 8" x 6". You will also have three
copies of a top quality DVD. Your photos will be edited and set against a
background of classical guitar music. However if you have your own
non-copyright music then this could be on the DVD. The final say on photos in
the DVD is yours. Michael will put together a provisional DVD. You can then
edit the DVD. Tell Michael which photos you like, which should be taken out,
and which photos you want to add (from all the photos that you have received).
This is the recommended package. You
get as many prints as you like because you have copyright and the prints are
already arranged in two sizes, and you get DVDs for yourselves and both sets of
parents.
Price £499
Gold Package
You get everything in
the Bronze and the Silver packages and you also get a
CD-Rom of 10" x 8" photos. You will also receive 24 10" x 8" photos of your
choosing in an Elizabethan Countess album. You may prefer two 7" x 5" photos
per page or any combination of one large or two small prints per page.
Price £699
Just need photographs?
While we can produce an album for you, we find that most customers actually prefer the control over what goes into which album, which comes from buying the album separately from the photographs. With that in mind, we can recommend the services of www.photosol.uk.net who offer a huge range of albums, more than we could hope to stock. Staff there are also very helpful, and their prices are reasonable.
Of course we can still provide an album, for those who prefer an all-inclusive service from a wedding photographer. If you want that, just choose the gold package from the list above.
Or want something extra-special?
Graphistudio also offer a huge range of albums, and these are beautifully laid out with the photographs printed directly onto the page. Follow the link to their site to get an idea of the quality of the finished product (though it has to be seen in reality to be fully appreciated). We can provide our usual high quality photography service, and also commission a Graphistudio album to your specification. This can be laid out in any of their styles, with any cover, debossed name, and slipcase. This main album will be a 40-page book with 25cm x 35cm pages containing up to 70 photographs. There will also be two Grapistudio 13cm x 10cm parent books (with dust jacket covers), also 40 pages and containing the same images as the main album.
Of course you also get all your photos on CD, and you will retain the copyright of all images, just like in the other packages. You get all of this for £1,299.
Price £1,299