The large gardens offer many photographic opportunities, an ideal setting for any wedding.
Book me to photograph your Waltham Abbey Wedding
from as little as £ 895.
Call now to book a no obligation consultation
01992 652901
Wedding Gallery
Visit my Herts & Essex Wedding Photography Gallery
Friday, 15 April 2011
Wedding Photographer Waltham Abbey
The beautiful Church in Waltham Abbey, Essex.
The large gardens offer many photographic opportunities, an ideal setting for any wedding.
Book me to photograph your Waltham Abbey Wedding
from as little as £ 895.
Call now to book a no obligation consultation
01992 652901
The large gardens offer many photographic opportunities, an ideal setting for any wedding.
Book me to photograph your Waltham Abbey Wedding
from as little as £ 895.
Call now to book a no obligation consultation
01992 652901
Monday, 4 April 2011
Grand Parents
Grand Parents, such important people in so many of our lives indeed without them we would not be here. Wouldn’t it be great if we all had a beautiful photograph of them to keep and cherish, my Nan sadly passed away earlier this year, but while she was still agile enough I did take a lovely portrait of her, which both my children have a copy of, because that is how they remember her, for other members of the family I was lucky in that my Grandfather was a keen photographer, and so I was able to reprint a 1950s photograph of her without having to do too much restoration.
Family portraits grow in value, and to future generations they become priceless possessions.
Book a family portrait today!
Family portraits grow in value, and to future generations they become priceless possessions.
Book a family portrait today!
Monday, 14 March 2011
Waltham Abbey Wedding Dresses
or Forty Hall Wedding Show follow up.
Well the wedding show at forty hall went well, and kept me busy.
Then Clive Maynard the toastmaster also asked for a photograph, and with his red jacket, white gloves and gable, how could I refuse.
Well the wedding show at forty hall went well, and kept me busy.
As well as exhibiting the beautiful wedding story books by Booked, and the fantastic 'Lavie' Japanese albums, I also took some photographs for Abbey Wedding dresses. Based just up the road from me in Warlies park, Jo has been there since about October 2010 and has a delightful range of wedding dresses.
Unfortunately as I went to take the photographs outside the rain started so we could only work in a tiny corner of the courtyard, but I think you will agree that the photographs still look pretty good.
Unfortunately as I went to take the photographs outside the rain started so we could only work in a tiny corner of the courtyard, but I think you will agree that the photographs still look pretty good.
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| Picture Taken by Michael Bird Photography at Forty Hall Wedding Fair. Wedding dress by Abbey Wedding Dresses of Waltham Abbey |
The dresses were also enhanced with the addition of flower arrangements, which were supplied by Eventful Flowers.
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| Lace Wedding Dress |
Monday, 28 February 2011
Advertising Photography
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| Product photograph used in an annual report |
As well as my wedding and portrait photography, I also take photographs of products for advertising and marketing. Usually photographs like these are taken to fit a particular layout, leaving space for text (known in the trade as copy) or when used on packaging, box folds, so that the image looks right on the side of the box as well as the front. I have photographed everything from Dog Food to Fridge Freezers,
you can see some samples of my product photography here http://www.corporate.mrbird.co.uk/images/folio/folio.htm
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| A 'cut out' image to be used on an advert |
Monday, 21 February 2011
Forty Hall Wedding Fair
Monday, 7 February 2011
Would you like to see my etchings?
In this digital age these beautiful analogue prints offer you something so different, so unique and totally beautiful.
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| Framed and ready to hang. |
It involves a large sheet of copper, wax, acid, inky rags and a huge manual printing press, that does exactly that, pressing the inked copper plate into the surface of the paper. You can actually see where the edge of the copper plate has indented the paper.
Because the ink is put onto the plate by hand no 2 prints are ever the same.
There is a huge selection of ink colours, from blacks, warm sepia tones, to reds and browns, this combined with the range of handmade papers, including papers with silk threads and gold and silver flecks, allows you to have a truly individual personalised artwork.
The finished result has to be seen in real life, as the Internet does not do it justice!
Each print has a certificate, stating the number of prints made and signed by the print maker and the photographer.
More about our etching service
Saturday, 29 January 2011
The unseen...
So I 'turn up take pictures for 4 hours' and that's it?
I wish it was.
You may have noticed that I attend a lot of wedding fairs as an exhibitor, its a good way of meeting potential clients.
I usually load the car at about 8am on the Sunday morning, drive to the venue, then I have to find where I have been placed, unload the car, set up the display, Setting out all my lovely sample wedding albums, which have all had to have been made at some point.
Half hour before the doors open, maybe now we have chance to grab a coffee, and have a wander around to see friends and colleagues, also known as the competition. Depending on the size of the show there are usually at least 2 fellow photographers there, but we all do something different, different styles of photographs, albums, personalities, and we usually have a friendly little chat.
Doors open and smile. there may be a couple of fashion shows, so that is when I grab a quick bite of something, but as soon as I do, a customer will turn up, and need to know about all the albums that I supply.
About 3 or 4 O'clock and the last people are leaving, time to pack up, load the car, get in, unload the car and put everything away in its cupboard (the area under the stairs is where I keep all my display boards, framed prints, lights, tables, cables, sample albums etc) Then maybe have some dinner in front of Antiques Roadshow, and say goodnight to the children.
That sounds like a lot of fun, but fun comes at a price, usually £150 to £350 for attending the show.
Which is OK, if and when you get a booking, which could be in 2 years time.
Then the phone rings... "we saw you at the show and would like to book you for our wedding!"
So an appointment is made for a Tuesday evening, - sort out the samples that I am going to take, drive to the house, maybe an hour or 2 if I fill in the paperwork, and drive home.
A week before the wedding I like to speak to the couple make sure everything is going to plan.
Day before the wedding, charge batteries, check equipment, memory cards, flashes, lenses. Make sure my wedding outfit is ready ( I wear a morning suit when I attend a wedding)
Then we 'turn up take pictures for 4 hours' (I do a lot more than that, but this post is about the rest of what I do)
I get home, turn on the PC, download the 800+ images, back them up to DVD and also to an external hard drive, this can take 3 or 4 hours.
Then we (usually my good lady wife) proof the images, to take out the blinks, duplicate images, the one where the smile wasn't right, or someone rubbed their nose, or looked at one of the other cameras that was pointing at them, (and that happens more now than it used to.) This usually takes about 2 days.
The remaining images, (usually about half of what was taken) are printed and bound, a DVD made (another day) and then delivered to the happy couple. We allow 4 weeks to complete this, because in between times we have albums to assemble, maybe a wedding fair to attend, or another wedding or 2 or 3 to photograph....
I like to deliver the proofs in person (that's another evening for those of you who are keeping count) and watch the proof DVD with the customers pointing out image that I like and to answer any questions they have.
Eventually, I get the order, the list of images required for the album, that I retouch, colour correct, balance, re-size, and print to then be placed into the album or to get made by our album manufactures, depending on what the customer has chosen.
Then the best part, delivering the album, I love watching the faces of the bride and bridegroom as they turn the pages, as the memory of the wedding day floods back. As the framed print is unwrapped and held up to the wall where it will take pride of place, that makes me feel so good inside, its what makes me get up a 6am on a Sunday to load the exhibition gear into the car.
A lot of what you do as a photographer is unseen, and because it is unseen, its un-valued, but without it, there is no value in what you do.
I wish it was.
You may have noticed that I attend a lot of wedding fairs as an exhibitor, its a good way of meeting potential clients.
I usually load the car at about 8am on the Sunday morning, drive to the venue, then I have to find where I have been placed, unload the car, set up the display, Setting out all my lovely sample wedding albums, which have all had to have been made at some point.
Half hour before the doors open, maybe now we have chance to grab a coffee, and have a wander around to see friends and colleagues, also known as the competition. Depending on the size of the show there are usually at least 2 fellow photographers there, but we all do something different, different styles of photographs, albums, personalities, and we usually have a friendly little chat.
Doors open and smile. there may be a couple of fashion shows, so that is when I grab a quick bite of something, but as soon as I do, a customer will turn up, and need to know about all the albums that I supply.
About 3 or 4 O'clock and the last people are leaving, time to pack up, load the car, get in, unload the car and put everything away in its cupboard (the area under the stairs is where I keep all my display boards, framed prints, lights, tables, cables, sample albums etc) Then maybe have some dinner in front of Antiques Roadshow, and say goodnight to the children.
That sounds like a lot of fun, but fun comes at a price, usually £150 to £350 for attending the show.
Which is OK, if and when you get a booking, which could be in 2 years time.
Then the phone rings... "we saw you at the show and would like to book you for our wedding!"
So an appointment is made for a Tuesday evening, - sort out the samples that I am going to take, drive to the house, maybe an hour or 2 if I fill in the paperwork, and drive home.
A week before the wedding I like to speak to the couple make sure everything is going to plan.
Day before the wedding, charge batteries, check equipment, memory cards, flashes, lenses. Make sure my wedding outfit is ready ( I wear a morning suit when I attend a wedding)
Then we 'turn up take pictures for 4 hours' (I do a lot more than that, but this post is about the rest of what I do)
I get home, turn on the PC, download the 800+ images, back them up to DVD and also to an external hard drive, this can take 3 or 4 hours.
Then we (usually my good lady wife) proof the images, to take out the blinks, duplicate images, the one where the smile wasn't right, or someone rubbed their nose, or looked at one of the other cameras that was pointing at them, (and that happens more now than it used to.) This usually takes about 2 days.
The remaining images, (usually about half of what was taken) are printed and bound, a DVD made (another day) and then delivered to the happy couple. We allow 4 weeks to complete this, because in between times we have albums to assemble, maybe a wedding fair to attend, or another wedding or 2 or 3 to photograph....
I like to deliver the proofs in person (that's another evening for those of you who are keeping count) and watch the proof DVD with the customers pointing out image that I like and to answer any questions they have.
Eventually, I get the order, the list of images required for the album, that I retouch, colour correct, balance, re-size, and print to then be placed into the album or to get made by our album manufactures, depending on what the customer has chosen.
Then the best part, delivering the album, I love watching the faces of the bride and bridegroom as they turn the pages, as the memory of the wedding day floods back. As the framed print is unwrapped and held up to the wall where it will take pride of place, that makes me feel so good inside, its what makes me get up a 6am on a Sunday to load the exhibition gear into the car.
A lot of what you do as a photographer is unseen, and because it is unseen, its un-valued, but without it, there is no value in what you do.
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