We took my mum out for lunch at the Hollybush today (as it was so good last week, we decided to go there again today!), it’s just around the corner from my mum’s house so is also very convenient. We had the usual struggle with my mum over who pays the bill – we won and paid!

I’m sometimes asked whether film or digital is better for wedding photography. I was a long time film user, using medium format cameras for weddings and 35mm for some commercial work. Over the last few years professional digital cameras have advanced to the point where image quality is as good, if not better than medium format film. As a result digital offers a number of advantages to wedding photography over traditional film, these are:-

The car in the above images is the one used in the film Evita.

There is one slight drawback to digital (it’s called post processing or workflow), to create the highest quality images you have to be fully colour managed and the photographer rather than the lab is responsible for any colour correction and image cropping. This means more time is spent at the computer preparing images and designing albums.

I’m sometimes asked how we produce our final prints, while a number of photographers print on ink jet printers, all our work is produced as conventional photographic prints by professional processors – we have yet to be convinced about the longevity of ink jet prints and want to be confident that the images we provide will last well over a hundred years.

Just met with Stuart and Karen to go through their requirements for their wedding in a few weeks time. Should be a fun day with a mixture of different atire from kilts to uniformed.

“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.” Henri Cartier-Bresson