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Your wedding is a very special day. It's a day of celebration, a day of joy. It's a day you will want to remember for the rest of your life. If you value great photography and want relaxed, natural looking wedding photographs taken in the reportage style, read on....

 Mere snapshots cannot do a wedding justice, and large format photographs are often too formal and posed. We want your wedding images not to be staged, but to impart realism and reflect the tone of the celebration itself. Bill's perspective brings a collection of photographs that is both a personal and comprehensive reportage of the day with a combination of candid moments and traditional formals. Each wedding is a worthy story in which Bill seeks to tell a photographic story with a distinct sense of artistry. We realize it takes a remarkable affinity for people, expressions, and locations to be a superb photographer of weddings. We feel it also involves passion that is about being in the moment. And so many moments make up a wedding day, in which translate into passionate images.  Bill finds nothing more inspiring then the coming together of two families, the celebration of love, for the purpose of a happy future.  He is honored that each bride includes him in the momentous occasion.

Why should you choose Bill Watts to be a part of this special occasion?

  • He captures emotions, not just traditional poses. and candids
  • His  images look like magazine shots rather than wedding portraits
  • He records the details that make your wedding unique
  • He works in the reportage style, to get great images without dominating your day
  • You have a choice of albums of the very highest quality
  • You have at least 250-800 portraits to choose from
  • Every image in the album is retouched to ensure you look your best
  • You can get all the images taken on a  CD (subject to normal editing)
  • CD images can be e-mailed or shared on a web page
  • We offer unique "Art Prints", signed by the photographer
  • We can provide multimedia slide shows or CD
  • We offer online print viewing & ordering for your family & guests

Coverage is tailored to your needs, based on consultation meetings before the event. Typically, we will spend the entire day with you, not just a few hours. Depending on the coverage you select, we photograph the preparations and the celebration at the reception, as well as the ceremony.

Although our main aim is to document your day as unobtrusively as possible, we recognize that we also have a responsibility as family historians and that formal portraits are an important part of this. We will work with you to complete these as quickly and easily as possible. You may also wish to make use of the beautiful location at the ceremony site or reception venue for some very special portraits; again, we will help you plan an appropriate amount of time to create the images you want.

To keep Bill's enthusiasm and creativity levels high, he only photographs one wedding on any day, so his availability is strictly limited. All bookings are secured on a "first come" basis, and are reserved by payment of a non-refundable retainer. Please contact us as soon as possible to secure your date.

Our wedding coverage fee includes all photography, consultation and planning, and a beautiful album of the finest quality, full of prints or a credit for portraits. Additional album images can be added to give you exactly what you want. and a personal web page for sharing your wedding images with friends and family.

We also offer unique signed Art Prints, and very unqiue and fun flush mount albums!

Bill's style of photography is contemporary as you can judge from the images in our wedding and portrait photography galleries. He views every wedding and portrait session as an opportunity  to create his art for your pleasure.

We hope you will enjoy looking through his website and look forward to speaking with you soon. Please call or email to make an appointment to discuss your requirements, view samples of his work, and to meet with him personally!

"You don't need "eyes" to see, you need "vision." An Artists vision is a gift from God, which must be shared to have life. What we do with our vision is our gift to God."

 

 

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. Do you tell us what shots to do and where?  We have one basic philosophy when it comes to weddings.  It is YOUR day, so we collaborate.  Obviously each person is different, with different personalities, different styles, etc.  So, when you book with us, we have you compile a tear sheet book of images that you are attracted to.  We do this, because style and art can be difficult for some people to explain, so it puts your vision forward to us.  We then take the book as a starting point to flourish with ideas that will make your portraits unique and beautiful!

 

2.Do you sell the negatives of images?We do have packages available that will provide all of your images on dvd.  We do not sell the negatives them selves for various reasons, but most importantly, safety of your images.  We take great care in the archival of negatives.  Dvd's can be remade, where if a negative were destroyed, it's gone.

 

3. What safety measures do you take to protect our images once they are photographed? After careful scrutiny of the industry standard in backing images up we have decided that it is just not safe enough.  So, once the images are photographed, digital images are uploaded to three machines.  One being a handheld digital hard drive, and two computers.  All negatives are sent by registered mail so that they are in a mail persons hand at all time and not left in heat or cold.  Then the images are uploaded to our online lab who in turn makes permanent archives of these images.  So, if something were to happen to the studio and the file was lost, we would have the backups permanently kept off site in California.

 

4. How flexible are your packages and do you accept payments?  We offer custom packaging after realizing that as different as each couple are, the all require very different things in the end.  So, talk to us about what your budget is and what things you need as an end result.  In turn we will work out a package just for you!  We also offer a monthly payment plan as we know how expensive it is to create the wedding of your dreams.

 

5. Will you be our wedding photographer?  The photographer you meet with, Bill Watts or Karen Brown will be the photographer for your day.  We have no hidden identities that will show up, everything is very upfront and you choose which photographer fits your needs for your day.  Then that photographer signs the contract.  We find the act of showing one photographers work and sending another photographer to the event when it is not the case of a medical emergency reprehensible.

 

6. What happens if you are ill and can't make it to the wedding?As a member of Professional Photographers of Washington and aAmerica, we have great resource of wonderful photographers to contact in the event something happens that disallows Bill or Karen to make it to your wedding.

 

7. What kind of equipment do you use? Bill uses various kinds of cameras, beause each offers a different perspective.  Most commonly he shoots candid moments with a 35mm.  Portraits are photographed in medium format with a Hassleblad and a Pentax camera.  We also on occasion include art print by using a polaroid manipulation technique.

 

 

 

 

 
 

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