Questions about Weddings:
- What are your packages?
- Where are you located?
- How do I book you?
- What wedding photography coverage do you provide?
- Pictage, who is Pictage?
- Do you photograph weddings on Sunday?
- What equipment do you use?
- Why do you do photograph weddings?
What are your packages?
- Weddings: see the Weddings page.
- Family Portraits: see the Family Portraits page.
- Events: see the Events page.
- Children: see the Children page.
Please contact me for a custom quote if you have a project in mind that falls outside any of those services.
Where are you located?
I'm located in Vista, which is North County San Diego in the golden state of California. I am available for weddings, engagement sessions, and events all over San Diego, Los Angeles and the neighboring counties of Southern California at no extra charge, and all other areas and states for a modest travel fee.
I'll even arrange a suitable time to come and visit you at your home or office (assuming you're in Southern California) where we can meet and chat and also so you can see some samples including the amazing custom designed fine-art albums offered.
How do I book you?
Just send me an email, or call me at 760-696-5168 and we'll go from there. See, that was easy wasn't it?
I'm based in North County San Diego, just in case you were wondering... Oh, and one more thing, I have a Kiwi accent!
What wedding photography coverage do you provide?
I have several Wedding Packages available to suit almost any taste and budget. Check them out here.
Pictage, who is Pictage?
Pictage are an online proofing service for professional photographers. All your photographs will be available for online proofing and ordering through our partnership with them. Pictage provide great service, you can order any image you like, in any size, both black & white, sepia toned, or of course in color with all sorts of border options. You can create thank you cards for your guests with your own wedding photographs on them, coffee table books with some of your favorite images in them, and much more!
Do you photograph weddings on Sunday?
I'm the Sound Engineer at my Church and my wife is a part of the choir, and I've been known to teach adult Sunday School once or twice (well literally four times as of January 2008) so I do have prior commitments every Sunday, and besides for me it is the Lord's day, and I owe everything I have to my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. He has been so good to me and my darling wife.
I'd love to be there for your wedding on a Saturday, or a Friday, or any other day but please just not on Sunday!
If you have further questions, do please email me, I'd love to hear from you.
What equipment do you use?
The very first camera was a Pentax Spotmatic-F with a broken lightmeter. I borrowed it from my uncle, and used it for my first major winter trip to the mountains. You can read more about that here.
Since then I've photographed with a variety of cameras, several Olympus OM series SLRs, a Leica, a Hasselblad SWC with an amazing lens (a great camera, that sadly I've since sold), and more recently my Walker Titan XL wide 4x5 view camera. I also shoot with professional Canon Digital SLRs as I find my creativity is not hindered that way, and I'm more productive out in the field. Not to mention that on a multi-day expedition my back is much happier!
Ok, but what will you use at my wedding?
For weddings I shoot digital exclusively. I use professional Canon digital SLRs, flash systems, and L-Series lenses for their outstanding image quality, and very low noise; what that means for you is nice large enlargements are possible, and I can do full page spreads in your album with very high quality.
Working digitally, my workflow is super quick after your wedding, ensuring I can provide a very high quality service, quickly. I can have your custom designed story book album draft up as a slideshow for you to share the week after your wedding, and your full set of 800 to 1000 or more pictures up for you, your family, and friends to order prints and thank you cards and so forth on Pictage soon after that.
If you have further questions about my equipment, I'll be happy to pop round and show you how I work, or you can call 760-696-5168 for a consultation, or just send me email!
Why do you do photograph weddings?
It all started with being disappointed with the photographs from my own wedding, and I knew I could do better, so I decided to do something to help make sure that others, such as yourself, have a great experience, and a great custom designed storybook album telling the real story of the day: your special wedding day.
When my wife and I were married, we got a set of proofs in a nice case, which were nice enough by themselves, we were given the original digital files a while later, and it was left at that. It wasn't until a year later that we finally printed pictures for our photo frames! Then I realised that hey, something is wrong with this picture! Something was missing. And that thing was time. Most people just don't have the time, or expertise, to put together their own prints from the originals, nor to do a custom designed storybook album for the coffee table. Time lost when we could have enjoyed a great story told in pictures in our album but we didn't have one to enjoy or share with guests.
That doesn't have to be you. That's why I photograph weddings, to help people like you remember your special day for years to come, and that's why I'd love to photograph yours. I'd love to provide you with something to cherish, something to bring a tear to your eye when you look through the pages of your storybook wedding!