Brian Kennedy Photography 01326 314152/07896 833890
My approach to wedding photography is simple: I treat the event of someone's wedding as an opportunity to capture powerful and evocative images of people in a unique situation. As a photographer with 20 years' experience, I welcome the challenges that each wedding brings, because it means that I'm having to think, and to stretch myself to deliver something special.
I shoot in colour, on digital equipment. My preference is for strong, high-contrast black and white imagery, but with digital processing I can decide what's best for each image, and convert from colour as necessary.
My primary aim is to produce images which will delight, and surprise my clients. It's not about simply recording the people who attend: its all about telling a story - not just the wedding itself, but the drama, the emotion and the feel of the day. I want people to be looking at their album in 10 years time and still get a buzz out of it. My job is to look for moments throughout the day which I know need to be captured, and presented as part of a sequence that will help people re-live the day - even if they weren't there.
That's a big responsibility, and it's hard work. I spend easily as much time processing and printing the images as I do actually taking them. That's because I want the final image to look just as I imagined it when I opened the shutter, and often that means fine-tuning it till it's just right. Then I think about where that image needs to go in the album so that it tells a particular part of the story, and also moves it along. Creatively it's very stimulating and satisfying, but it requires a lot of investment, not just of my time, but my judgement, my skill and my empathy.
Every prospective client is treated the same: first of all I need to establish their budget for photography, because that determines what kind of service I can supply. I won't take on a wedding for under £650, because I simply can't deliver a quality service for anything less.
Every shoot results in a series of proof images, from which the client selects the final images to appear in the album. The price is about how much of my time is spend shooting, how many images appear in the album, and the quality of the album itself. Obviously those with a tight budget will get a smaller final product than those with a larger budget, but whatever the price, my agreeing to a wedding shoot means that the client gets my complete committment to the event: the quality of the photography won't vary - just the amount of it.
I am a member of two professional bodies: The Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers (SWPP) and the British Professional Photographers' Association (BPPA).
If you want to talk to me about your wedding, you can contact me on the above numbers, or use the 'contact' page on this website. I'm always happy to hear from people, even if it's just for some advice.
