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  • Sussex Wedding Photographer Jon Silver

    Welcome to my wedding photography site.

    You'll find information on packages, prices & booking on the Information menu.

  • I've been photographing weddings since 2002, and during that time I've loved every wedding equally. Each one is different, a reflection of the couple's personalities. There's such a wealth of material to photograph, everything looks wonderful, everyone's happy, and above all I get to document photographically a unique piece of social history at every wedding.

  • Here you'll find some of my photographs from many of the weddings I've photographed, along with a little of the story from each one. You'll also be able to read a bit about my philosophy and approach to capturing wedding images. Please get in touch if you like what you see.

The Birdcage Bandstand, Brighton – a Wedding Photographer’s Dream

Monday, August 9, 2010 Posted in Wedding Photography Samples

The Birdcage Bandstand, Brighton sea front - romantic, moody & atmospheric When Lucy & Luke got married at the Marriage Room, Hove Town Hall last Saturday, they really needed a better looking location for their wedding photographer to catch them in a romantic moment of matrimonial bliss. So we all jumped into the wedding car (a Brighton taxi) and went down to the Birdcage Bandstand, newly renovated and restored and looking glorious with its intricate wrought iron tracery illuminated against a cloudy, stormy sky heavy with August rainclouds. As a Sussex wedding photographer I get to photograph some very lovely wedding venues around East and West Sussex, but sometimes moments spent at a characterful location like the Birdcage Bandstand can make all the difference to a set of wedding photos.

Jon Silver is a wedding photographer in Brighton & Sussex, Kent & Surrey.

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A Sussex Wedding Photographer in Richmond Park

Friday, July 9, 2010 Posted in Wedding Photography Samples

As a Sussex-based wedding photographer, most of the weddings at which I’m the official photographer are, unsurprisingly, around Brighton, Lewes, Crawley, Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath. However sometimes a referral from couple who have already had me as their wedding photographer can lead to a job outside my usual areas. On 9th July 2010, Zoe & Sam engaged me as their wedding photographer at a beautiful wedding in the elegant surroundings of Pembroke Lodge, which lies inside Richmond Park – that’s the Royal park with the Queen’s deer roaming around.

As a surprisingly confident and nerve-free Sam warmly greeted the guests on the sunshine on the terrace, the nervous bride, Zoe, arrived looking gorgeous, leaving her brother wondering out loud what had happened to the sister he’d grown up with. A wedding photographer always hopes for sunny weather, though it brings with it its own challenges, such as meltingly hot bride & groom, people squinting into the sun, and red shiny faces. This was no exception – the day was incredibly hot, the marriage room inside Pembroke Lodge was sweltering, and the video man and I were sporting very lovely semi-transparent white shirts by the end of the ceremony.

Still, the wedding photographer wasn’t disappointed with the splendid blue skies & backlighting which resulted in some lovely wedding photos from a not-so-Sussex wedding.

“I used this company because they were recommended by 2 other couples who liked casual photos. Jon arrived at the venue early and stayed after his time had run out, the gallery photos are excellent and he didn’t prove any bother and we weren’t tripping over him all the time. The pictures are natural with some posed, as we had asked. Jon obviously takes pride in his work as he emailed me once the gallery went up. I have recommended him to 2 other couples who are planning a wedding. Thank you Jon x” – Zoe & Sam

Jon Silver is a wedding photographer in Brighton & Sussex, Kent & Surrey.

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Natural vs Posed Wedding Photography

Saturday, June 5, 2010 Posted in Articles on Wedding Photography

Anthony & Dianne, 4th June 2010
I see a lot of very good wedding photographers’ work where the couple and even their guests have been posed by the photographer. Some of it is incredibly heavily photoshopped stuff that wins awards in various competitions (like the SWPP ones) which my photos could never win because it looks like a photo, not a painting. I also see a lot of very poor stuff, mostly on wedding photographers’ web sites. Generally in the good stuff, the couple look immaculate, and the photo itself looks like a photoshopped, airbrushed, high dynamic-range masterpiece suitable for any wedding magazine. There’s always something missing though.

What’s missing is the emotion. What’s missing is the sheer, radiant joy of a couple in love who have just dedicated themselves to each other in front of their nearest & dearest, in a fantastic, beautiful, extravagant day they threw their hearts & souls into planning.

What’s needed to capture that is a wedding photographer who understands that emotion is what it’s all about, and feels that emotion in total empathy with his happy (joyful) couple. Someone who simply loves the fun, the tears, the laughter, the intimacy, the specialness. A photographer who appreciates having the amazing opportunity to document a unique piece of social history, and the single greatest day in the life of two unique human beings who found in each other something nobody else could provide. A wedding photographer who doesn’t get in the way, or try to control things. Someone who’s confident enough in his abilities to take great photos, capturing all the wonderful, brilliant, touching moments of a wedding day withough interrupting or feeling the need to upstage the bride & groom or stage manage the action.

I get regular emails from companies (generally run by wedding photographers with lots of business acumen but not that much actual photographic ability) trying to sell me wedding photography courses conducted with models in a studio. They also sell “posing guides” for wedding photographers. A posing guide for a live event?! No thanks! The day I need a posing guide for wedding photography is the day I’ll give up being a wedding photographer and go and do something totally noncreative and formulaic instead.

Jon Silver is a wedding photographer in Brighton & Sussex, Kent & Surrey.

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Emma & Russell – Wedding photography at Stanmer House, Brighton

Friday, May 15, 2009 Posted in Wedding Photography Samples

Emma & Russell had a lovely wedding at Stanmer House, which always provides an elegant and charming environment in which to tie the knot. During just two hours of photography I managed to capture just over 515 super photos of Emma’s arrival, Russell nervously waiting, the ceremony, drinks reception, guests’ departure, a little walk around the park & church with Russell & Emma, and their departure to their reception. All in all, an excellent example of what can be done within the realms of even my budget package. But I’ll let the pictures do the talking.

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The wedding photographer costs less than the cake?

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 Posted in Articles on Wedding Photography

Choccy-Woccy Doodah CakeYes, everything to do with weddings is expensive – including the wedding photographer. That’s generally because someone puts a huge amount of work and their time into each service provided. The hand-made wedding dress, the beautifully crafted wedding cake… these are all understandably expensive. So it grates quite a lot when someone comes along, asks me, as a professional wedding photographer, to do their wedding photography, and then quibbles over the price, which is frequently less than the cost of the cake (to my absolute horror), and usually a lot less than the price of the dress. There are some myths that should be kicked out before you begin…

Myth: “Of course it’s all easy nowadays, you don’t need a professional wedding photographer, you just get anyone to turn up with a digital camera, snap away, and you’ll be sure of getting a few good shots”. This is a myth that doesn’t stand up to close scrutiny, and is constantly proved wrong by the calls I get from people who have taken this route, and then want me to work some sort of professional wedding photographer’s magic on someone else’s amateur photos to make them worth having. Basically I can’t. The only thing that makes a photograph a good photograph is what happens at the moment it’s taken; once that moment has passed, it’s too late – the moment has gone forever.

Myth: “My brother/friend is coming – he can do the wedding photography”. If you’ve ever been put in this position as a keen amateur photographer, you’ll know the pressure it places on you. It’s enormous & relentless, and you won’t enjoy the wedding; you won’t be able to drink; and worst of all, the photographic skills that cause so many “oohs” and “aahs” when you show off your holiday snaps, will vapourise under all that pressure.

Trust a professional wedding photographer who can show a clear track record which consists of hundreds of good photos from wedding after wedding. Choose your photographer because you like him or her as a person; after all they’ll be interacting with your guests, and you don’t want anyone who’ll be abrasive, abrupt or rude. Above all choose your photographer because you love his/her photos; because long after the cake is all eaten by your guests, and your wedding dress is all eaten by moths, your wedding photographs will be the best way to remember the day, the people both living and passed on, and above all relive the emotions of your wedding day. A small price to pay? Yup.

Jon Silver is a wedding photographer in Brighton & Sussex, Kent & Surrey.

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