Below are a few Wedding and Christening Photography companies which I feel are my competition within the area. I have to research into these companies and look at what I can do differently and better to what they produce. I need to focus on their weaknesses and focus on making these my strong points.
Weddings and Engagments
Dadis Photography
http://www.dadisphotography.co.uk/
Wedding Photography
Based in Surrey, Hampshire and Sussex
USP – Traditional, Formal and Modern reportage of their wedding, to create a story of their day.
Before every wedding shoot, Darius has a pre-wedding shoot (engagment shoot) to where he experiments with the couple to have an insight on what they want for their actual wedding day.
Packages
Half day Digital Package - £695 5-6 hours
· Starting at the brides house then through to the start of the wedding breakfast (including mock cake cutting and speeches)
· Meeting with Bride and Groom a month before the wedding
· 200 Fully processed and re-touched images (incl creative black and white)
· 6inch DVD book with 10 pages (20 sides) with custom designed and prined hightlights of your wedding day, plus a DVD with high resolution images for home printing and sharing online
· Online gallery to view and share with friends
Full Coverage Digital Package - £895 10-12 hours
· Pre-Wedding shoot at a location of your choice
· Meeting with Bride and Groom a month before the wedding
· 400 Fully processed and re-touched images (incl creative black and white)
· 6inch DVD book with 10 pages (20 sides) with custom designed and printed highlights of your wedding day, plus a DVD with high resolution images for home printing and sharing online
· Custom designed slideshow for pc/mac viewing
· Online gallery to view and share with friends
Digital + Album Package - £1195
· Pre-Wedding shoot at a location of your choice
· Meeting with Bride and Groom a month before the wedding
· 400 Fully processed and re-touched images (incl creative black and white)
· DVD with high resolution images for home printing and sharing online
· Beautiful 40 page 12x12 or 14x10 bespoke album
· Custom designed slideshow for pc/mac viewing
· Online gallery to view and share with friends
Special offers can be offered Mon-Fri with a £150 booking fee.
David Nash Photography
http://www.davidnashphotography.co.uk/
Wedding Photography
Based in Surrey, Berkshire, Hampshire and London
USP - reportage, capturing their wedding naturally as it happens with a minimum of disruption.
As well as being a photographer, David Nash uses a blog daily to keep the public up to date with his work, as well as introducing other members of the public to his work. I think this is a great way of getting yourself well known and I may possibly create a blog for myself.
Member of the WPJA Wedding Photojournalist Association
Packages
(Information taken directly from the website)
My wedding photography options start at just £895. With each option I offer, you will receive the following;
· A DVD of images taken on the day in high resolution with full reprint rights.
* Copies of all the images on the main disc in low resolution, for email/Facebook etc.
* A DVD slideshow.
* All images will be digitally edited by myself.
* Online password protected gallery so your guests can view and buy prints at a 50% discount on my normal print prices
· Option 1 - £1095
Up to ten hours coverage, usually from bridal preparations though to the end of the first dance.
· Option 2 - £895
This is a half day option for up to six hours coverage.
· Additional hours beyond the initial coverage - £100 per hour
· Wedding Albums
Albums can be added to your digital option with prices starting from £325. Please contact me for more information regarding the albums I offer.
· Optional extras are available, such as;
· Engagement shoot
* Canvas prints
* Thank you cards
Darius J Sutherland
http://www.sussexweddingphotography.org.uk/?gclid=CPrtjonM7q8CFQwjfAod-nlg4A
Wedding Photography
Based in Sussex
USP: Evoking emotion into the viewer through his photography.
Darius J Sutherland is based is Sussex and focus's on making each photo better than the last. His images are quite simple and normally have one focal point with a shallow depth of field. He also likes to experiment a lot in post production, changing the saturation in a lot of his images, as well as editing them with an old fashioned grain.
On the website, Darius doesn't display his packages. All he states is that they start from £595-£1995 and you can contact him to tailer your perfect package. This is a good way of getting exactly what the customer wants for a good price.
New Borns
Lucy Down Photography
http://www.lucydownphotography.com
Baby and Family Photography
Lucy is based in Esher, Surrey and is a professional baby and family photographer. Lucy believes that babies are the most 'beautiful and natural thing to capture in the world' which is represented in her style of photography. Lucy keeps for post-prodcution work to as minimum as possible and prefers to work with natural lighting to help capture the personality of the little baby.
Babies are delicate things, and you can also see that Lucy believes the same thing as in some her photos she chooses to focus on the small delicate parts of the baby. For example, she creates a small focal point on a babies eye lashes and a button nose. She also uses a shallow depth of field in her images to really focus all the attention towards the babies beautiful face. Yet if she hasn't used a shallow depth of field, she will vignette her image.
