Award winning wedding photographers

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Its strange how many times I look at the competition in the wedding photography industry and see the phrase ‘Award winning photographer’ at the front page of someones site or in their advert on Google adwords.

Its frightening to think that so many of these photographers have won awards, although I do stop an wonder sometimes what award(s) they won.

I can hold my hands up and say I have not won any awards in photography. I’d like to put the reason for this due to never entering a photography competition, although realistically, if I ever did, I’d be up against it given the sheer number of photographers out there… And the amount that I’d be up against who are already ‘Award winning photographers’…

If I entered a photograph at the local village show and finished 3rd, then I suppose I would be an award winning photographer. But then again, if I entered the parents sack race and my little boys school and won, being presented with a certificate for my achievements, then I too could call myself an award winning photographer.

I am a photographer…. So I’d better get the egg and spoon out and start practicing for Jacobs primary school sports day… Then the whole world will say, ‘Look, there’s Tom Ely, the award winning photographer.

Where memories are made http://www.atmosferik.com
 
Like your website design. Was it designed just for you

Know what you are saying about the award winning bit

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Six thousand pounds??!?!?!?!?!?!

It's nice, but it's not six thousand quid nice, sorry.

WRT to the award winning, it's meaningless, unless the awards are quantified IMO - like you say, could be an award for swimming or whatever.

Royal Photographic Society Wedding Photographer* of the year has a lot more prestige than "Award Winning Photographer"


*For Example :)
 
I could technically claim that I'm an "award winning photographer" just because I have LRPS but I much prefer to simply use LRPS and let people judge for themesleves.

I do know a LOT of wedding photographers who enter monthy competitions in a certain place and if they receive a grading they go on to claim that they have won multiple awards. Unfortunately the customer does not know the value of these so called awards.
 
AliB said:
I could technically claim that I'm an "award winning photographer" just because I have LRPS
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Oooh so I am too!
 
I won an award - for slowest person to run 100 meters at my school - does that count?
 
My wedding photographer had numerous awards and nominations for things like Kodak awards etc. Tbh, I wouldn't say his was ground breaking, just very traditional. I didn't really take the awards to mean anything!

Oh, and not sure if it's me but the photos on your website are taking an age to show, so slow in fact it had changed 5 times before I could see the entire picture.
 
atmosferik said:
A company called PH creative in Liverpool designed it... Cost around 6 grand!!!
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Please tell me that is a typo!!!! You can't possibly have spent £6,000 having a website designed. If you were a business with a multi-million pound a year turn over then I could understand it but surely you don't have the income to justify £6,000 on website design.

I'll admit it is a very impressive looking website but surely any computer geek with a few hous to spare could design a decent website for a lot less money.
 
Chaz Photos said:
6 Grand and it hard to know where you are at first glance Not see a web that's worth that much well apart from big national company maybe.
And it got adverts on it for others...... and you meta keywords are very limited
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I assume the £6K was because they built a custom content management system for him (i.e. "allows you to change everything around"). That sounds about right if not overkill (wordpress and a few hours would have given a similar result).

I don't see any adverts and meta keywords have been irrelevant for years :-)
 
I think it is bad form to critique somones site when they havent asked
 
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