Getting married 50+ years ago was very different than today where the bride would go to the studio of the photographer for a few bride and groom portraits, the launch of the portable camera still did not see the wedding photos that are expected of the brides and grooms today as they simply were not possible.

In more recent times,  there was always the film camera and the digital camera, where the photographer would have been limited or limited the service to how many rolls of film, and despite the 35mm 24-30 frame capture, the real professionals used 110 and 120 film to capture the moments and these were 12 frames per roll.

Today’s photographers with digital cameras may seem to have it easy, but thats not really the case, but this post is nothing about how wedding photography has changed.. its about the brides..

Todays Bride wants something a little different that a studio portrait and a few photos of ‘the groups’ in-fact the bride now has become centre stage with her requests from her photographer or photographers.

The bridal photo shoots are now a triple stage of photo shoots:

• Bridal boudoir  – Sensual and often a gift for the husband to be.
• The wedding – The general coverage of the wedding photography
• Trash the dress – Exciting high fashion photography that despite the name doesn’t trash the wedding dress.

Bridal boudoir became popular in the UK around 3 years ago, it was the ‘done thing’ in the states and filtered through to the UK, in part the reason for this being that ladies were looking for some thing a little different for themselves and then for their boyfriends when it came to portrait photography. The next natural step was of course the bridal boudoir photo shoot. This became a celebrity  show piece and the wedding magazines picked up this growing trend and the rest as they say is history.

Weddings generally remain the same, however; there has been a change in the desired style of photography. The styles of photography have changed over the past 5 years to break into 3 main parts:

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Are you about to be scammed by an alleged wedding photographer?

Copyright Rory Witham

Many people are looking for professional wedding photographers to find that great picture and style that they want for their wedding,  the Internet being a great source of information allows people to find the photographer quickly and easy  with a few button presses and a click of a mouse.

But are YOU getting the REAL DEAL?

We all know that you can see images on the web and photographers are just some of the people that place images on-line for all to see, but sadly there are people out their that will steal the images, print them and break the law in so many ways, its outrageous.
One of the growing problems with the professional photography business  is that every dog and its flea’s are trying to get in on the acts and marketing themselves as “Professional Photographer”. This has really been noticeable  since the point and shoot cameras looked more like professional cameras and Auto became the new big thing.

You will be happy to know that anyone can be a professional photographer, sell or even get someone request your image and your a professional!  So Everyone who has tagged a photo  on Face book is saying the photographer is a Professional!  According to trading standard there is nothing wrong with this and so they can advertise as a professional and its happening more and more.

Well you may be thinking  that OK a pro photographer is costly,  and these none professional wedding photographer have some great pictures.. Right??  Well read on..

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City Photography  is a pet project  which we have been running from  early 2009. The idea of the project was linked with National Photographer to bring the photographers together with clients at a local level.
Set up  a little like a directory from the main backbone of City Photography the individual websites are far from  anything like the common “photographer Directory”

City Photography works in a unique way to allow photographers to cut their overheads on advertising which can be very costly in a highly competitive market with single paragraphs with a link to their website costing between £65- £250.  as many photographers spend thousands of pounds to promote another company, the directory.
We think that with the Research and development that has gone into City photography of the last year and also the  number of clients that have grown because of the city photography network just goes to prove our track record and award winning status.

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For many years Rory has been a wedding photographer, sharing in the delight and dreams of those  who wish to record their wedding in all its glory.

Rory’s skills as a photographer has lead him though many twists and turns and some of these were with the founding of National photographer in 2006 and also Grafixphoto in the same year, opening  up the opportunities that he had from his popular wedding photography business.

Rorys old wedding photography website has now been decommissioned in exchange for his new  photography website on National Photographer.

Wedding photography by Rory Witham

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