Announcing the SvenStudios remote robotic wedding service
Times are hard right now – the COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havok on our way of life and people are being forced into lockdown – forgoing normal activities, meeting with friends and even postponing weddings. It’s a terribly tough situation. So we at SvenStudios have decided to provide a bit of a smile to your faces in the form of our new remote robotic wedding service!
In light of the new social distancing measures in force in Australia, and right around the world, people are being forced apart, and having to rely on technology to come together. So, thinking of how we can improve on our already useful virtual reality streaming service, we have the perfect way to conduct your wedding without having to worry about the ‘5 people present’ rule currently in effect across Australia to minimise the spread of the virus. Just take a peek at this shot I recently took of Alice and Dion during their remote robotic wedding ceremony! You are now able to attend your own wedding by using a remote controlled robot with your face on it!
remote robotic wedding
Technology is creeping and getting better at an incredible rate, it’s only in the last few years that drones have become a common sight at a wedding, buzzing about taking shots from the air. Even underwater robots have now found their way into my photographic arsenal when capturing a wedding. Also combining the incredible innovations SvenStudios has announced each April 1st, this remote robotic wedding service was a natural progression to our commitment in bringing the absolute best technology to your day.
Robots from the Double Robotics firm, under instruction by SvenStudios are able to take your place at the altar while you stay at home, practicing social distancing on your sofa and get married at your dream venue! Even your celebrant and witnesses are able to utilise this technology and attend to make the whole operation completely legal! Your guests can also attend via a live streaming virtual reality feed that SvenStudios have already been offering at every wedding we cover as your wedding photographer.
The great thing about this whole set up is that you are now free to have your photographer and videographer on site to take photos of your robotic selves being all romantic without having to worry about leaving your house, or the pesky five person limit at your wedding! How good is that!?
remote robot wedding photo
romantic remote robot wedding
To be honest it was the South Park episode A Nightmare on Face Time which gave me the idea to develop the remote robotic wedding service. It made me wonder why people have not been using this sort of technology before now to venture to places otherwise unaccessible to some people. Now with the government mandated social distancing being enforced on gatherings like weddings, I felt as though this technology was a no brainer to start being used in this way!
A nightmare on face time
If you are interested in having the SvenStudios remote robotic wedding service help out with your situation by allowing your wedding to go ahead in the location you were most hoping for, then get in contact with us using this special form. As you can imagine, along with the Satellite wedding photography, x-ray wedding photography and wedding odorgraphy previously announced on the same date each year, we are going to be fairly busy with a huge innundation of requests to cover weddings with this new remote robotic wedding service. We only ask for you to bear with us while we wade through all of the thousands of wedding couples we are sure will be clamouring to be photographed as a robot on their wedding day!
It’s almost that time of year again, when I finally have all the previous year’s wedings edited and sent out to my loving couples! As I mentioned before in my 2019 wrap up, last year has been as absolute gangbuster year with no less than 37 weddings covered, with almost half (17) of those coming within October, Novemeber and December last year! As of writing this, I still have 2 weddings to edit and send out from 2019, but I feel its time to showcase some of my best wedding photography from 2019!
I’ve head back into each and every wedding I covered last year and chose 2-3 of my favourite photos from each, while also making an effort to showcase photography from different periods of a wedding day – not just the glamour, pin-up photos. I’ve then stuck them to music in a simple little slideshow which I’ve uploaded below. I like to do this every year as a bit of a learning experience for me, so look back at my work in reflection and figure out why and how some things worked while I was taking the photos.
The Best Wedding Photography from 2019
These are my own personal favourites, and I’ve certainly omitted quite a few, but I did limit myself in only selecting 2-3 photos from each wedding. I also like to run a contest each year where I ask each of my previous year’s couples to select their single favourite photo from their own wedding and put it to a vote on my website. The winner of the popular vote goes home with a large framed print of their selection, while I get some valuable insight as to what people see in my work, which is invaluable.
So Look out for this year’s edition of the SvenStudios photo of the year contest on my Facebook page, which I plan to begin at the beginning of March, after I’ve completed these last two weddings I’m editing at the moment. All voters also go into the draw to win $100 cash, so it’s worthwhile to vote! I’ve sent out an email to each of my couples from last year seeking their favourite photo, however some emails go unread, so if you’re reading this and I covered your wedding during 2019, get in contact with your favourite photo and I’ll put it in the draw! This contest isn’t just for research into how I take my photos, it’s also run as a bit of a thankyou to all my previous year’s couples for having me as your wedding photographer!
As a wedding photographer, when you get right down to it, love and being in love is really why I have a job, and in my view it’s the best job in the world! So what better way to celebrate the season of love – St valentines day than with a simple little Valentines day promotion to thank all of you out there that make my dream a reality. I have a $200 Event Cinemas Gold Class gift certificate here that I want to give away!
Win a $200 Event cinemas Gold Class date
I’d like to give the chance for everyone visiting my page – and that’s any page on my website – to win a $200 Event cinemas Gold Class date on me. There’s absolutely no need to have me as your photographer, or need to purchase anything; all I ask is for you to have a look around my site at the quality of work I offer as I have hidden little bouncing love hearts randomly on different pages across my site. You’ll have to click through the many pages, wedding previews and any random page I hide them on.
How to enter
Clicking on these little hearts – like the ones animated below, but NOT the ones animated below – you’ll be prompted to enter your name and email address – and that’s all you’ll need to do to enter my little Valentines day promotion. As an added bonus, each little heart you find and put your name in adds another entry into the draw! So you can enter as many times as you wish, you just need to find all the little hearts!
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There are currently 5 hearts hidden around the site, and I will be hiding more hearts throughout the site each day up until Valentines day, February 14th. So make sure you come back to find even more little hearts for more chances to win a $200 Gold Class movie date on me! The hearts will be hiding throughout the site from today up until February 29th, after which a winning email address will be chosen at random and sent the $200 gift certificate. Remember, you can enter as many times as you find a love heart, so get clicking! 😀
If you’ve never experienced the Gold Class cinemas at Event, you’re in for a treat! It’s a wonderful way to experience the movies with someone on a date, and for $200 you can also be fed and watered while doing it! The only issue with the Gold Class seating is that you can’t get a cuddle while watching 🙁
Good luck and happy clicking!
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Disclaimer – Prize awarded will be given as a $200 Event Cinemas Gold Class gift certificate, not transferable for cash. SvenStudios and Event Cinemas are not affiliated in any way. Email addresses collected will be added to a mailing list which I will (very rarely) send emails to, usually just about similar promotions.
The most important wedding photos on a wedding day
As a wedding photographer that has been capturing weddings for almost a decade now, I’m acutely aware of the importance of having good wedding photography done. Everyone has their own idea of what the most important wedding photos you should have captured, but it takes a keen idea and a creative mindset to really think about when and where these situations are going to occur. These are the sorts of shots that evoke emotion in the viewer after the day has ended, the shots you smile and laugh at, or cry thinking about and they happen all day long. The most important wedding photos to capture in my mind are the memories you’ll cherish forever and even look back on, so I’ve decided to put together a little bit of a list to answer the question of ‘What are the most important wedding photos on a wedding day?’ starting right from the beginning of the day.
What are the most important wedding photos on a wedding day?
There are dozens of lists of wedding photos you ‘need’ to have done around the internet, titled like ’87 Wedding Photo Ideas You Definitely Need to Capture’ or ’20 Must-Have Photos on Your Wedding Day’ but really having a list like them and then meticulously ticking each one off on a wedding day just increases tension and stress when it should be a moment in your life where you can be youself with the person you love. I feel as though wedding photography is more about the showcasing of the coming together of two separate personalities into one union, and I capture this by considering all the moments on a day I know is going to happen through experience. I have made a list of some general photos I know will always be treasured, written and explaied in a way that doesnt force you to ‘do this’ or ‘take a shot of the sunset through the veil so that you can see the hairs on the tip of your nose prickup when you kiss’. More moments in time that I’m considering as a natural wedding photographer – not something you should worry about 🙂
My list of most important wedding photos on a wedding day
The invitations and other homemade knickknacks
If there’s anything that would cause you stress like nothing else, only to forget about what you were stressing about the day after your wedding – it’s all the personal and handmade details you came up with for your decor on your wedding day. All the more reason why to capture them in photographs for you to actually remember what you were stressing about leading up to the day!
Invite
Harry Potter Wedding Bouquet
wedding sign
Home made jam
Wedding art
Heart
Accessories
Similar to the made made knickknacks, the accessories you’ve picked out for both yourself and your partner are items you spent painstaking time stressing over – but are perhaps the ones you won’t forget, but are pretty anyway so deserve a photo 😛
Wedding shoes
Wedding Rings
Bridal jewellery
Engagement ring
Getting ready
Leading up to your wedding ceremony is a time of day you’re likely to completely forget if it werent for your wedding photos due to the emotions you’re feeling and simply because it’s just before the biggest moment of your life, soyour mind will completely wipe the part before it in your memory. It’s als the last moments of time you aren’t ‘connected’ to your spouse, so it’s a nice way to remember the last moments you’re not married 🙂
Getting ready
Getting ready
Girls fussing
groom almost ready
Moments showing personality
Capturing the essence of the personalities of the couple in front of me is the absolute essence of what modern wedding photography is all about to me. If I can show an album of a wedding they hadn’t attended to someone, and they can tell me a little about the people involved, that means I’ve done my job in capturing the emotion and ‘story’ of a wedding day in my photography.
The boys getting ready
Having fun in the veil
Fun wedding guest
Silly faces
The portraits
Weddings are full of traditions. One of these is having a portrait done – they don’t have to look like you’re manniquins, but they are expected in a wedding album, just as a nice simple photo documenting what you and everyone involved looked like on your wedding day. These photos are often the ones people keep as hairlooms, so they may be the most important wedding photos on a wedding day.
Bride looking out over Santorini’s Caldera
Smiling bride
Bride at front door
Groom looking for bride
Smiling groom
Items that wont last
Often you’ll have items at a wedding that are used only once and after that they are discarded. Just as you stressed over your accessories, homeae things, etc. These items need to be documented too.
Helicopter and homemade pinata
Guest gift
Gifts
In streamers
The bridesmaids and groomsmen
Probably the most important people in your life – as you’d want them right next to you for support as you make the biggest desicion of your life. Of course you’d want photos of them!
Bridesmaids
Bride and her bridesmaids
The Groomsmen
Bridal Party
bridal party near cart
Boys walking together
Parent’s first look
This is always a fun part of the day – perhaps geared more towards the bridal side of things, but it’s always nice to see the reaction on the faces of you parents once you’ve been dressed and are ready to make the plunge. It’s traditional for the father of the bride to not see the dress fitted on the bride until her wedding day, so it’s nice to get that reaction 🙂
Dad’s first look
Dad’s first look
Dad’s first look
Bridal approach
Running on from the father of the bride first seeing the bride once she’s fully dressed, it’s then tradition for them to walk together down the aisle towards the wedding ceremony. While weddings have evolved over the years and everyone does their own thing, this is possibly still the most followed tradition.
Bridal approach
Bridal approach
Bridal approach
Groom’s first look
Just as the father of the bride gets to see her all dressed up for the first time, then it’s the groom’s turn as they walk down the aisle. It’s always great fun to see how the groom will react! Sometimes they are smiling, others in tears, and occasionally they can only look everywhere BUT their bride! 😀
Groom’s first look
Groom’s first look
Groom’s first look
Groom’s first look
The venue
The venue is the backdrop to your entire day, and you’ve probably spent a fortune getting it to look exactly how you dreamed it would. It’s important to capture it just as it is on your day. WHo knows? perhaps you’ll revisit the spot in 50 years with your great grandkids and reminice with that photo in your hand?
Santorini Wedding Ceremony
Driving toward Chateau Tanunda
Coriole Winery Wedding
Alm tree arbour in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens
Emotion during the ceremony
Weddings are an emotional time in your life – the laughter, the tears and smiles are all moments pure of your feelings on the day, and during the ceremony you’re probably only thinking about the person you’re holding hands with! These photos are the type of shots that make you remember that moment in a way that you simply would not be able to otherwise.
Bride and Groom laughing
Smiling bride
smiling groom
Teary Bride
The first kiss
Perhaps the most traditional of traditional wedding photography – the first kiss. The first kiss symbolises your union as a married couple and marks the beginning of your life together. Although this doesnt happen at all ceremonies – in particular the Catholic tradition.
First kiss
First kiss
First kiss
First kiss
First Kiss
Emotion after the ceremony
These are the hugs and kisses, along with the exchanging of gift horse-shoes and knickknacks that guests would place on your arm, or your dress depending on your tradition. Your guests are these as you deemed them important enough in your life for you to invite, so having a photo of them showing actual emotion I feel is more imporatant than the usual ‘stare at the camera’ group shots you might usually get from your guests.
Greeting guests
Mum hugging bride
Hugging guests
Hugs
Hugs
The exit
The exit of the bride and groom as they walk back down the aisle can be one of the most iconic shots from your day, and it can also be a disaster 😛 It’s one of those shots on a wedding day everyone expects to get, but circumstances mean that it’s just not possible unless you make plans for it. Often it’s the case that guests will be swamping the bride and groom for hugs, which means that they are separated from one another when they should be together walking down the aisle. But all that being said, when it is planned and the flower petals are flowing, the shot can be spectacular.
bridal exit at st francis winery
Exit
Exit
Bridal exit
Walking back down the aisle
The ‘pin ups’
These are the shots you print and frame on your wall. The ‘money’ shots, or pinups – the reason why you chose your venue!
Santorini wedding photography
Under Semaphore Jetty
Lightning
Amongst the olive trees
floating veil
The bridal party
Usually around the same time as the ‘pin up’ shot we’d also do a nice bridal party shot with both sides of the aisle now together in a big group shot.
bridal party amongst trees
Bridal party
Bridal party
Bridal Party under a tree
Bridal Party
Bridal party walking about the Middleton Beach Huts
The elderly
The elderly members of your wedding congregation have seen you and your family members grow up – they know the hardships and challenges you’ve gone through to get to this point in life, and they would be feeling emotions within that simply cannot be explained unless you’re a grandparent or elderly youself. Weddings are about families coming together, and remembering who was there with you on your day. When you think about it that way, photos of your elderly guests can be most important wedding photos on a wedding day. The elderly with on on your day may not reach your 20th anniversary, so it’s really nice to have a nice photo of them happy to be at your wedding.
Dancing
Dancing
Drinking tea
The young ones
Similar to the elderly, the young ones probably wont remember that well what hapopened on your day, and from your perspective, it’s nice to have photos of them while they were still little and cute. Kids can really make a wedding day that much more special with them running about doing kids stuff, it’s nice to have them involved.
Kids dancing
Kids running around
Kids being cute
Little one’s tie
Flower Girl in Window
Page boy
The decor at the reception
Much like all the other stuff you’ve stressed over for the last 6 months, the decor at your reception is only going to be set up like this for your night, then will never look as good again – so I need a photo!
st francis winery wedding reception
Darwin Surf Club Wedding Reception
SC Pannell Wedding Reception Hall
Serafinos Wedding Reception
Mortlock library reception
The cake
The design of your wedding cake, and it’s topper represents your combined personalities and taste. It’s a beacon to your guests about how you guys see yourselves as a couple. And they also look amazing, so I need a photo 🙂
Wedding Cake
Wedding cake
Wedding cake
Cake in Olivers Chaff Shed reception hall
Wedding Cake
First Dance
The tradition of the first dance at a wedding dates back to the 16th century when aristocats of Europe would begin their party with a display of their finery by starting the dance before their guests. These days it’s because a romantic notion that the first dance represents the first steps along the life together as a married couple.
First dance
First dance
Serafinos Wedding First Dance
First dance at Mawson Lakes Hotel
First dance
Parents
Your parents have seen you grow up from a little baby to the person you are standing with your loved one on your day. The emotion they are feeling watching you get married can be overwhelming and having that captured in a photo is a treasure that cannot be reproduced.
proud mumma
Mum helping
Dad looking on
Dad looking on
Dad looking on
Smiling Mum
Silly photos
The silly photos are the ones you might have interspersed within your wedding albums simply to make you smile and remind yourself on why you married this wierd person sitting next to you. Weddings arent all about the formalities, it’s about fun, personality and making memories that last forever.
Silly girls
Star wars wedding at Auchendarroch House
Guys having fun
Having fun with the glasses
Laughing bridal party
laughing bride
This list is of course not an exhaustive list of the most important wedding photos on a wedding day, in fact while writing this blog I’ve thought of so many more and every wedding is different and other important photos can be taken! But hopefully this gives you a little idea on what are the most important wedding photos on a wedding day that I have experienced as a wedding photographer over the years!
