Frequently Asked Questions
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The actual ammount of time during the day to take the photographs would depend on the time frame that you have set up for the day. Photographs will be taken during the ceremony and last only a short while longer for signing of the registry and confetti photographs. We endeavour to take the group photographs as quickly and efficiently as possible to cause the least ammount of disturbance to your special day. Throughout the day reportage style photographs will be taken which can capture all the little yet important photographs that could be missed with just having set photographs. During your day we will have set aside an time to take the bride and groom away from the party to take some private photographs alone, this again will depend on how much time you have set aside for this in the busy day.
During our pre wedding meetings we will work around your scheduled day to fit in all the photographs that you will want . From getting ready in the morning to your last dance or even photographs in the honeymoon sweet.
The time spent at the wedding depends on the package that is chosen but can be tailored to meet your individual needs. Generally the packages run from 3 hours at a small pakage with up to 10 hours with the larger packages.
The ammount of photographs taken at the weddings will vary from the different packages chosen and the ammount of time that is spent there on the day. Varying from 300-500 photographs at a smaller wedding package up to over 1000 photogaphs at the larger weddings.
This again will be dependant on which package you choose and if you decide on a certain type of album. With a Digital package you will recieve a Jpeg disc with all the images from the day on for you to decide what images you wish to print. A Traditional album can contain up to 30 large images or up to 90 smaller images. Digital Storybook albums can contain around 100 individual images put together in a layout to create a fantastic personal album. However dependant on packages Jpeg image discs can also be purchased as an optional extra.
The wedding day will be personal to yourselves and will be adapted to exactly the way you like it. If you do not like the traditional group photographs we can make things a little bit different and more exiting by creating fun group photos and capture the sponteniety of your wedding day.
Don't worry we get told this alot, with our experience we are able to put our brides and grooms at ease and help them relax so that we can get the best possible photographs that we can.
We have a team of experienced photographers with approximately 40 years of wedding photogrpahy experience between them. You will be informed at the first meeting who will be doing your photographs and will meet them at the second meeting.
Digital cameras have lots of great advantages over traditional film cameras. One of the main advantages is that we can take a large ammount of photographs and view them on the day knowing that we have the photographs that we require and not having any risk of chemical failure at the lab. In the days of film we would have normally taken something in the region of 30-40 photographs during the wedding, with digital we are taking hundreds of photographs to give you more choice and a far more exiting album. By using digital we can also offer you products such as DVD slideshows, review websites, canvas and other product printing.
In the early days of digital photography there were justified concerns regarding image quality. These days digital Slr technology has not only equaled but surpassed the quality achieved by 35mm film. At Ajay Fotography we invest massivly in the most advanced cameras available, we can now boast Nikons top end D3 and D2X cameras for use at our weddings.
Yes we do our own in house printing for our albums, framed and mounted photographs. This means our quality of the printed images are to the highest standrd and we leave nothing to the control of other third parties.
Digital manipulation can be performed on any of the photographs that we take and is to the highest of standard using photoshop CS3 and other photo editing software. We have 16 years of experience in this kind of work and can produce some of the most amazing effects but we would also advise against over editing of images which can have a detremental effect on the final images.
Yes we carry back up cameras incase anything were to happen to our main cameras. We also carry spare batteries for our cameras and flash units, also a large ammount of memory cards for the vast ammount of images that we capture. This means that we have all the available back up items if anything were to go wrong.
We have complete photographic insurance to cover our equipment and the whole day, we also have public liability insurance. This means that if anything happens on the day or afterwards with regards to the photographs of your wedding day then we are covered.
To choose your photographs you can either view them on our website which you can access with a personal password or can watch them as a dvd slideshow on your television. The images on both formats will each have individual numbers that correspond with our image files to make the choosing of images enjoyable and easy. All you will have to do is fill in our pre made forms with the numbers and return to us.
From the time that we recieve your order forms a traditional album will take approximatly 8 weeks to prepare, print and handbuild your album. A digital album will take around 6-7 weeks to prepare, design and to make.
Yes, your photographs can be put onto our website where they can be viewed and purchased by friends and family. Delivery is within 10 days of ordering.
We keep an archive of all our wedding photographs for at least 3 years. There is an option however to purchase a dvd of Jpeg images, this will allow you to have the image files for yourself to backup and print when necessary.
Depending on the album package chosen these are available from £155 - £300.
Yes, slideshows are available for all packages but are included in the price with some packages.
The papers and inks that we print with are archival quality and if kept in an album will last for hundreds of years. Framed photographs if kept out of direct sunlight are lightfast for 75 years plus.
With the use of digital photography the options to print and enjoy your fantastic wedding photographs are endless. Bags, mugs, cushions, canvas, clocks and thankyou cards are just a very small ammount of the vast number of different ways your photos can be printed.
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