Choosing a photographer
Things to consider when choosing a photographer❏ Your budget will determine how much of the day the photographer can capture.❏ Understand exactly what your photographer is offering and...
Photography and Videography
On film
On film
Things to consider when choosing a photographer❏ What percentage of your budget? This will determine how much of the day the photographer can capture.❏ What is included in the package? Understand...
Snap - Choosing Your Photographer
Snap - Choosing Your Photographer
After all your months of planning, your wedding day will pass by in the blink of an eye. Which is why having great photographs that reflect your big day is so important and wonderful to look back...
Slideshow: Wildlife photo competition
Wildlife photography competition
A selection of entries from the 19th annual Otago Wildlife Photography Competition 2018.
Capturing Those Special Moments
Capturing Those Special Moments
After all your planning, your wedding day will pass by in the flash of a camera. Having photographs that reflect your big day is important, and great to look back on in the weeks and years after the...
The art of mixing photography and video on your wedding day
The art of mixing photography and video on your wedding day
At least one practitioner with experience in still and video photography has recently introduced a new service called "mediography" - a combination of media. It uses new technology, merges photography and videography into one, and adds creative editing skills.
Wedding Videography
Wedding Videography
As one professional videographer points out, a wedding is just like a film set with scenery, a plot, and "actors" who play their parts.
Albums
Albums
By Donna-Marie Stark, Shotz Photography, Fellow of Photography NZIPP, chair Otago/Southland region New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography.
Wedding photographers
Wedding photographers
By Donna-Marie Stark, Shotz Photography, Fellow of Photography NZIPP, chair Otago/Southland region New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography.
Wedding Photos and Albums
Wedding Photos and Albums
There's something about sitting down with a photograph album and just browsing through the pages, whether on your own or with friends and family.
Videography
Videography
Videographers are skilled practitioners who treat a wedding rather like a film set as they record the action and seek out the unexpected and spontaneous.
How to choose the right wedding photographer
How to choose the right wedding photographer
Photographs will live on years and years after your wedding day - it is so important to document your special day in a personalised, professional manner, writes Jennifer Hughson.
Photography: the punch of the professional
Photography: the punch of the professional
Congratulations on your engagement! Photographs that capture YOU will be very precious to many people in your lives, for years to come.
Videography viewpoint
Videography viewpoint
Videographers will tell you that this is a skill that requires even more creativity and technical expertise than photography because of the added dimensions of sound, movement and continuity.
Tablets and smartphones can take photos and high-definition video, but their small lenses, sensors and mikes do not produce great results under typical wedding conditions such as low light.
Professional photographers
Professional photographers
Southern New Zealand is rich in professional photographers, all with their own individuality and approach to weddings.
Choose carefully. Visit their websites to check their styles, study friends' wedding albums and if attending a wedding, keep an eye on the way the photographer approaches his or her work.