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Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 00:03
Hello, folks, and a very warm welcome to this edition of the Supplier Spotlight podcast. My name is Liam Ball, I’m your magical wedding host, also known as the Gentleman Magician. And this podcast exists to shine a light on some of the very best people in the wedding industry, suppliers who quietly do things well, consistently, and with real care for the couples that they work with. As always, if you are enjoying these podcasts, please do like, follow, should subscribe, share them and tell other people about them. It really does help decision making for weddings far, far easier when you’ve got access to greater information. Now, today’s guest is a returner to the podcast, but also a wedding photographer. Somebody who’s trusted with capturing not just how a wedding looks, but how it feels from fleeting emotional moments. to the atmosphere of the day as it unfolds. They’re known for a calm approach, natural imagery, and an ability to let moments happen rather than forcing them. So it gives me a great pleasure to welcome back to the podcast Adam Prescott, but this time talking about his photography business, Adam Prescott Photography. Hey Adam, how’s it going? I’m good. How are you? Absolutely marvellous. Yeah. Lovely to have you back. Yes, yep.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 01:21
Returning.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 01:22
Yeah, it’s indeed. We must make more of a habit of this. It’s quite fun. So at last time we were chatting, of course, it was about the Little Horse Photo booth, of which you’re making quite a few changes. How’s that all going?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 01:35
Yes, we have changed his name, which People may have noticed we’re now at the photo boots company. Let’s be off the photo boots company, obviously. Yeah, and people will probably already know from our socials that at the end of this year we are saying goodbye to the horsebox. Uh which kind of led the name change as well because the little horse photo booth with that horse box kind of doesn’t really make sense. Yeah. And so we were heading towards the Luxury end of indoor photo boys. That’s kind of where we’re going.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 02:09
Yeah. Sad tidings, but at the same time, a great thing to look forward to. Yeah, absolutely.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 02:14
So at the end of the year, anyone wants to buy a really nice horse box?
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 02:19
Most definitely. But of course, that’s not what we’re here to talk about today, because as well as doing that, of course. You’re also a professional photographer and wedding videographer, aren’t you?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 02:28
Yes, yeah. Um, yeah, started doing that before we had the photo booth business. Um Actually started off in motorsport a while back but um background lies. Um worked for a few teens hey know so Aston Martin Ferrari. So people just some of the smallers. Yeah, just yeah, they’re tiny teams. Only the sports car racing. So not Formula One, so sports cars, endurance racing, that sort of thing. Um ended up working at the Le Mans twenty four hours uh and worked there f five times, I think, for various teams. A couple of actually won the race. So, um, yeah. That’s where my sort of photography started. So transitioned into wedding photography probably twenty eighteen, that sort of thing, full time.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 03:24
Um, and then the rest as the city is his so so yeah, see so gosh, okay. So, I guess then you’ve got you’ve had to sort of pick up a real knack of capturing sort of moments that are gonna come and go like that. You’re not gonna have an opportunity to go, hang on, just just reverse a bit so I can just get that That’s never gonna happen.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 03:47
Yeah, I think the um obviously as you say, the um the motorball background has sort of equipped me well for um being able to capture the moment as you put Um and then yeah, yeah, having a bit of sort of situational awareness. Almost anticipating what’s going to happen as well, which in a wedding environment is crucial. So It’s invaluable, I think. Oh, yeah. It’s just being aware of what’s going on around.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 04:20
So so what was the process then of transitioning from motor sports into weddings? ‘Cause that that doesn’t seem like it’s a like it’s a little hop or or or something that’s, you know, neighboring each other?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 04:31
No, not really. Um basically a driver asked me to uh photograph his wedding. Oh, okay, promotional shots for him. Yeah. And he said, Would you come do my wedding? And I was like, Uh, never know the wedding before, um, but yeah, definitely give it a go. And then sort of another driver said, Oh, his shots were really good. Um, could you do mine? I’d like ya. And uh so ’cause you would think Mote Spork Ferrari would pay you a lot of money? No, not really. Um, so sort of kind continued with my full time day job. Uh yeah, and sort of progressed into to the wedding photography and videography. More and more full time. Got still got a little bit of a fingering that motor sport pie with the website that I run.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 05:23
But yeah, less of that, more of this. More more weddings, which is I mean, it it must be really lovely to be in a scenario where you’re doing something professionally about the motorsport. And then to have one of the drivers go, Hey, I like the look of your pictures. Would you come and do my wedding? And that must also be quite daunting, right? Because you’re going from taking photographs of cars traveling at one hundred miles an hour To people who can stand deathly still to get the right photo. Yes.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 05:50
No, it’s it was definitely a learning curve for me as well. The amount of YouTube videos I was watching about posing and this and that. And they’re like, actually, you know what? I’m going to do it the way that I think it looks great. Yeah. And that’s and that’s kind of the the ethos that I’ve brought along is is I mean, we’ve worked together. It’s sort of just a very sort of calm, natural attitude of just letting things happen. Yeah. Not orchestrating a a situation for my photos, ’cause they’re not my photos, they’re the couple’s photos.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 06:25
Yeah. How would you describe your style then for people that maybe don’t know technical terms about about what pho photos are? Um, style on my style is I’ve got a couple behind me.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 06:38
Um both couples, when we had our first meeting, said I’m really shy in front of a camera, I don’t like having a photograph taken. Um which I think is more prevalent these days than it ever used to be. Yum Just relax, have fun, let let people Be themselves because the last thing you want to do is look back 10 years’ time saying that’s a really very good technical photo, but it’s not us. Yeah. But I want people to enjoy their photos for the rest of their lives and to capture what happened on their day, not what I made happen, if that makes any sense. Because I do tend to waffle a little bit, but yeah. That’s kind of where I go. Some portraits, like these two behind me, sort of quite intentional portraits, but people just enjoy the day.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 07:28
I think as well that what makes one of, and I think it’s a whole multitude, but one of the differences between getting a good photo at a wedding and a great photo at a wedding as a photographer, from what I’ve seen, is the ability to, as you say, just let things happen and to be there at the right moment and at the same time not be obtrusive, right?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 07:53
Yeah, yeah, at our last thing the last thing you want is someone in your face with a camera.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 07:58
Yeah, I mean I d I d ’cause It’s such a ’cause that’s it. You you we’re we’re in we’re in a day and age now where everybody’s got a camera in their pocket and the second you point a camera at someone, they’re just immediately aware of it and and everything about them changes. Yes, yeah, it does. So, how do you balance that on a wedding day?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 08:21
I think sort of the candid shots, the moments that are happening, I use We call them long lenses. So you can stand for the layman, you can stand quite a long way back to take the photo, a zoom lens, that sort of thing. So yeah, getting just observing what’s going on, capturing those moments, moving around the cruise if there’s a a group of people chatting. Not really getting in people’s faces. People will turn and they will look at you and they’ll go, Oh, photographer, can we get a foot a photograph? And yeah, absolutely you can. And again, with couple shots, is just Let the couple be themselves, give them some little cues, some prompts, put them in some great light, but just throughout the booking process and pre went get to know each other, get to know if they’re comfortable doing things or if they just want to go and walk and hold hands and just chat about what’s happened during the day.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 09:23
So yeah, that’s that’s kind of how how I work during the day. Get you. So, what would you say then, in your experience of weddings, are some of the things that couples value most about having a great photographer, but don’t realize that they’re going to value them until they’re actually in the moment and doing them?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 09:43
I it sounds strange, but it’s having a third person there with them because you are that person that is going to spend the majority of their wedding day with them. Yeah. from bridal prepper at morning through till after their first dance. And having also having known that person before their wedding. So if they’ve had an engagement shoot or whatever, they’re comfortable with you and you understand their needs and you can help them as well. So it’s yeah, it’s almost I think a lot of couples have said He did my dress up. We none none of us knew how to do this dress up that I thought is gorgeous, but we were all fingers and thumbs and we had nails and and make up and it was just stress and Adam just stepped in and did the back of my dress up. So it’s just those little things that are absolutely nothing to do with being a photographer, but it’s being someone there that can help people, which is
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 10:44
But it is. I think that’s invaluable, isn’t it? When when you’re in where I mean, I’ve been in scenarios where something happens and like you’re the person on the spot. You’ve got to deal with it because otherwise something might fall apart somewhere. And it’s that it’s that cool, calm control of being like, don’t worry, I’ve got it. Am I going to turn it into a great photo as well, right? Yeah. Absolutely.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 11:08
Yeah. I’ve had the like the videographer that I work with, um, yeah, has got me doing that someone’s dress, which is it it happened on the day. So A, it’s great for my social media. Yeah. Um but B, it’s it’s documenting the day and then vice versa if I see sending something that’s out of the ordinary for that couple, um, they’re going to get a photograph with I don’t sort of cut out supplies from the couples day. I don’t know. Some photographers do. Yeah. But I like to sort of capture everything. They’ve paid a lot of money for these people yeah, be there.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 11:43
So why not have them in it? That’s right. What have been some of your most sort of favorite and memorable weddings of of of or sort of most favorable memorable moments at being at weddings that you’ve caught on film and camera?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 11:56
Um, I think Sasha and Sam’s wedding.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 12:00
That was a great wedding.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 12:02
That was a great wedding, but if you remember, the weather wasn’t the best. We had sideways girls, lane, and it was they were a great couple, and they they were like, Yeah. If we get a couple of shots outside, we get a couple of shots outside. But I think ’cause we all understood where everyone was coming from It was just a really fun day. We got some absolutely smashing couple shots in the end. They were out in the wind, and we used the wind to great effect on the couple shots. The sky was just so dramatic in their photos as well. But they were they were up for it and they were like, Yeah, let’s do this thing, let’s enjoy ourselves And I think because of the sort of I didn’t pressure them to oh, you must come outside and get us a couple of shots. They’re like, well, let’s go and do it. And it’s Understanding when someone’s had enough as well, because there were points where they were like, Look, this is just it’s we want to get inside, it’s too cold.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 13:08
Yeah, fine. I think that there are so many ’cause, you know, you you want to get those really great confetti shots and you want to have those really lovely moments when they’re outside doing their own thing and It’s just the two of them. But also, as well, sometimes you’ve kind of got to balance that with the environment and the weather, and of course, people’s energy levels and you know what they’re comfortable with and capable of. It must be The kind of thing that you’ve got to have like a thousand and one get out clauses, right?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 13:38
Yeah, there is that I mean you You never know how a day is going to unfold. Ever know, you can have lots of lovely dialogue with a couple, and then you get there, and the groom is sweating. He’s so stressed. I’ve had that before, and it’s Like, okay, mate, just take it down a notch and have a and he’s like, I just don’t want to talk to an hour of this. And it’s like, right, I’m not going to take your photo. I’m not going to embarrass you with that. Um and then just it yeah, you have things that don’t go right, cakes don’t arrive, flowers are out of place, they fall over during the ceremony, it’s it’s an uncontrolled event. I think It’s not getting too wound up about that. And that’s the advice I give to the to couples is the only time you’ve got to be on time that day is when the registrar is standing there on the Vicar’s step. That’s right.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 14:36
Everything else is a guideline. Fly by the city of your pants and don’t worry about it. Yeah, that’s right. Yeah, I think that that I think is definitely something that so many people don’t realize is that when they’re planning a day There are certain, there is, well, there is the specific moment, like you’ve got to be there for the ceremony. You’ve got to do that bit. That’s the important bit. And then after that, Make sure that you’ve got the right people in place so that you can sit back and chill out, and everything’s just going to happen. And all you’ve got to do is then live it and experience it and not worry about having to control it or what you’re going to do. I mean, you know, I I I know that venues will be very much well, you know, dinner’s at three and you need to be there at three. But of course, the the truth is, I think that many people don’t realize is that It is an uncontrolled event. There are things that come up that you just can’t do anything about. And, you know, being able to sort of roll in the moment will make a huge difference to how much you enjoy the day. And then Well, following on from that, I guess, all the great photos you’ll get out of it.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 15:38
Absolutely. Yeah, that’s it. It’s it’s also having that sort of communication with the venue and saying, Look, the light’s brilliant at the moment We’re gonna be ten minutes late for dinner. Yeah. Is that a problem? That’s right. And it’s just being professional about it and saying that. It’s one day. Yeah. It’s the couple’s one day.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 15:57
That’s right. And I think for the most part as well, like most venues will say, hey, don’t worry about it. It’s fine. Ten minutes isn’t going to cause any strife at all. which is great. Now, of course, we’re we’re kind of focusing a lot here on on on photography and taking cell photos, but you already do also do videos as well, don’t you? Yes, that’s correct.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 16:16
Yep. Started that a few years ago. It was kind of a natural progression. Yeah. A lot of people say, you can’t do both. I can’t. No, you’re right. I can’t do both. Okay. Um I do if if a couple of books, photo and video, uh yeah, I photos kind of leave the day. Um and then I videoga out of a pool of three That I really trust. But I do do videography on my own. So, similar sort of view to a wedding there, just let the day unfold in front of me. A lot of Photographers will ask couples to do or suggest couples to do works perfectly well for me on film. Yeah, not going in all Hollywood with lights and cameras and this and that. And yeah, again, same ethos as the photography. Just let the day unfold, document what’s in front of me.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 17:08
Yeah, I get you. So, what would you say is your personal preference when it comes down to photos or video? What do you prefer?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 17:17
I prefer it’s strange. I prefer photos for editing because it’s a lot quicker. And that’s purely a selfish aspect. On the day Some days I just like being there and filming what’s going on in front of me, and I don’t have to get as involved as I do as a photographer Yeah. But I’d like photos. I think if I had to choose one over the other, it’d be photography. Um, love videography, absolutely love it. I love the editing, although I just said I would choose the photo, I think, ’cause it’s quicker. Um but yeah, I love building something out of um film. Yeah, you see through it. Telling a sort of story, I’m wish.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 18:03
I mean, there are so many ways that you can take all the different bits of film and edit them together. to almost tell a hundred different stories, right? So how how do you balance that to make sure that you’re telling the right story for that day?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 18:21
Um that’s a really good question. It’s a really good question. Again, it’s it’s knowing the couple and knowing their their sort of take on what their day means to them on how they want it to look. Um from as far as the music aspect, um got a massive library of music that’s now available to me. Um, and it’s it’s build of the way I I know a lot of videographers, um, edit in different ways to me, but I like sort of have a chronological feel to the day of it starts with prep and it Going through chronologically, and throughout that, it’s building excitement towards the end of the day. It’s a little crescendo in the middle for the ceremony, and then so it builds excitement to the end of the day. It’s it’s again, it’s it’s not a Netflix documentary. Um, not that great yet. Yet. Um, but Yeah. It’s it’s it’s capturing the moments that mean things to people. And also things the couple may not have even noticed has happened.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 19:33
Yeah. I mean that’s I think that’s, you know, the other thing is that and and I guess it’s the same for a photography videography, you could only be in one place at a time, right? But of course, the couple can only be in one place at once. And there’s going to be so many things that go on around them that they’re just never going to see that I guess you’re going to have more of an opportunity to see Because you’re almost like back from the action, so you’ve got a wider range of view. So you could take some photos and suddenly go, I’m just going to get that over there, then I’m going to get that over there, then I’m going to come back here again. And suddenly they’ll go, Hang on, when did that happen? It’s like, well, you were doing this and I saw that.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 20:10
Yeah, that’s it. There is a lot of being a for the couple being in two places at the same time. You may not. Physically be there, but you yeah can make it seem that you are.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 20:23
Yeah. I mean, I think I think as well as, you know, the the opportune and the candid moments that you get Would you say there are any sort of standard moments of a wedding day that are often underestimated or or they they get something that they don’t really expect? Even though they know they’re going to do it. Yeah, definitely. Cake cuts.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 20:49
Oh, yes. Yeah, it’s very. it’s I think there’s been a lot on TikTok about oh we should get rid of cake cuts and burbot lies so boring. To a point, yet I I used to just go, yeah, you can go cut a cake. There, but now I’m like, no, let’s put the cake. Boodleman is a brilliant example because they don’t mind doing it. We’ll put it right in the middle of the dance floor. Yeah. And we’ll light it with the lights. And it looks absolutely fantastic. Yeah. And you take the photo not looking at the couple, you take it from the back, looking at everybody else. I filmed it that way as well at another wedding, and The expression on everybody’s faces is fantastic ’cause they’re smiling and they’re happy. And if you’re just looking at the couple cutting the cake, it’s It’s the apple colour cake. But if you get the atmosphere of everything else that’s going around and the guests are enjoying it, mum’s there, bawling her eyes out ’cause the daughter’s cutting the cake, and it’s like
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 21:48
That’s what you want. It’s a real big moment. I think people underestimate it, isn’t it? It’s a real big moment, the cutting of the cake. It’s something, I think, at a wedding that everybody expect. To happen as well.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 21:59
Yeah.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 22:00
And of course, it’s one of those key points in the day where you can be like, right, we’ve cut the cake now. We’re kind of getting, well, we’re getting towards party time, we’re getting towards drinks, and of course, we’re getting towards cake. Yes. So yes. It’s going to make anybody happy. So we all like cake. It’s one of the main reasons I do weddings. Wedding cake. It’s just a tier’s fabulous couple, yes.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 22:24
Yeah, suppliers tier. That’s what we need.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 22:26
Yes, yeah, that’s right, yeah. Four tier cake, yeah. Yeah, one for the day, one for the anniversary, one for the christening, and one for the suppliers. That would be great, wouldn’t it? Wouldn’t that be wonderful? What’s your favourite cake?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 22:43
I like really really good Victoria Sponge. Oh yes. Yeah classic, very nice. Yeah. But yeah, it’s nice and light as well, which you don’t want. Yeah, I’ve heavy cake on the dance floor because you’re probably gonna see it again.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 22:56
Yeah, that’s right. Yeah, that’s right. Fabulous. Now, um First dances, ’cause I I know I touched on it there. Couple are gonna come in, they’re gonna do their first dance. It it’s it’s becoming more of a thing, isn’t it, now, that people start to choreograph a dance, right? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I I I come from a from a very much from a hobbyist. I have a bit of a dancing background. My fiancé and I actually, we’re both sort of we’re both dancers. That’s how we met. And we’ve helped people choreograph stuff. And time and time again, I said to couples when I’ve helped them to do this, like sort of friends of mine, it’s not something I do in any way professionally. Like, I’d never dare. But you know, I’ve had friends where I’ve helped them, and I’ve always said, Listen, get together with your photographer and your videographer, show them what this dance is going to look like, right? Because there are so many beautiful moments in this, and if they know where it is, they’re going to capture it. Have you ever been surprised by a choreographed dance and thought to yourself, oh God, I don’t know where to be?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 23:59
Yes, yeah, I’ve had I had one couple that I obviously I learned from this um that had choreographed an entire first dance. And they had a violinist as well. And I was like, Oh, blimey, what’s going on here? Um so from that I now ask people, Are you having a choreographed first dance? Which is it was a learning thing for me, but Yeah, captured most of their dance because they usually have a fixed camera on the dance floor, yeah.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 24:31
I think that’s also something that people underestimate, right? With things like photos and videos, if you’re choreographing a dance. There is going to be some absolutely fabulous, just moments, just split-second moments in that, that number one will make astonishingly good photographs. And secondly, we’ll make a really fabulous, especially if it’s been maybe filmed from a couple of angles, it’s going to get cut in, it’s going to look brilliant. And I think that’s something which people underestimate, because I think there are so many people who think, well, I’m not very good at dancing, so it’s not going to be very good. But the truth is, you don’t have to be great at dancing to put on a fabulous first dance and get great photos and great video.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 25:14
Yeah, absolutely. I think it’s just having a little little bit of confidence and kind of understanding by that time of the day, you’ll be relaxed. You won’t even be stressed anymore. Not sure what speeches are the way you’re married. Have fun. That’s it. Have fun on the dance floor. If you make a proud of yourself, you make a proud of yourself. But fantastic. You’re in front of friends and family. There’s no strangers there. Yeah, that’s right. Yeah.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 25:40
So they always say dance like nobody’s watching, but it’s very different for a first dance. Everybody’s watching and most of them have camois.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 25:48
Yeah. And I would also say if you want to do that, but you’re not like massively keen on being there on your own, tell your DJ, your band, look, after the first sort of thirty seconds, one minute Invite everybody in to join you on the dance floor. So you stand on your own for a four and a half minute truck, swearing around, going, I just want the ground to beat me up now. That’s right. If that does happen, then it does. I feel really bad for the couples. I’m like looking at the theater, just going, Everybody dance floor.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 26:20
Yeah. The number of times I’ve said to couples on a wedding day, Have you choreographed a dance? and they go, No, no. So, okay, what’s your first dance track? It’s this It’s this seven-minute melody, and I’m like, right, okay. Do you want to do the whole thing on your own? Because seven minutes is a long time, and they go, Oh, we haven’t thought about it. I’ll tell you what. I have the first couple of verses. I’ll give it 90 seconds and I’ll pull people on. And again, it really upscales the atmosphere, doesn’t it, when that kind of thing happens?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 26:46
Yeah, and it’s great for. It it’s fantastic for photos, but for video, if you’re you’re looking at the couple and then you’ve got people coming in from behind you to fill that dance floor, it makes it absolutely fantastic.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 27:00
Yeah, it really does. So, let’s think about this now. So, obviously, photos, videography. If there’s people out there thinking, do you know what? Adam sounds like a little bit of me on my wedding date. The kind of person I want to chat to. They’re going to reach out to you. What kind of process are they going to expect to sort of see? What’s their journey going to be like when they’re sort of signing on with you and onboarding and getting to the wedding day?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 27:24
So, um, I’m the world’s worst salesman. I will tell anybody that I cannot sell my own turnuses. Um I invite people to come and find my website, you know, um, look at the photos, like what they see and make a Inquiry. Um yes, I do do wedding shows and I like meeting people by I tell Peeter then I can’t sell I could sell ice to Eskimos. Um but anyway, uh I digress. But anyway, I have um just invested in a new booking system which is actually built by a very, very good uh wedding videographer. So it is bespoke to weddings. From that contact form, they’ll get a nice digital brochure so they can take their time and look through all my prices. So there’s no nasty surprises or a price of my website as well because It’s like looking at a Juda’s window if he’s got no prices up, but I can afford that. Yeah. And from there, people can have an online chat with me. If they’re local, we can meet up at local Starbucks where their coffee places are available. And then it’s literally paying your deposit and then throughout the time because it’s invariably every year before your wedding. Have a look at check-ins. I’ve got a few nice little goodies, surprises that I send to people. Money off. confetti, uh, digital guest books, that sort of thing. Uh, companies that I’ve worked with that I know are fantastic. Uh yeah. Send them recommendations and also say to people use me as a source of information because I’ve been to a lot more weddings than you have. So if it’s even if it’s not photography related, if it’s to do with order of service, time lines, stuff like that, I’m there. People get that sort of knowledge from me. Yeah. And actually, while we’ve been speaking, someone has literally just booked me. So we fabulous. Well done. My versus great choice.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 29:30
Great choice. Yes. Fantastic.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 29:33
So, yeah, that’s kind of my booking process, it is really simple. I think people think about it, and it’s quite daunting, and I need to book a photographer, and I don’t know what to do. I make it as easy as possible. possible.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 29:44
Yeah, and that’s exactly how it should be, right? And I think that ethos shows because, you know, certainly in the in the photo booth business, you’ve been sort of recognized for that. And you’ve won awards for what you do, which is which is testament to the fact that not only are you good at it, but also that people like you. What would you say as well? I mean, let’s say there’s people out there and they are just at the start of their journey. They’re starting to look for a photographer. What sort of thing should they be considering? And how early should they really be looking to get their photographer and videographer?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 30:22
It works for both is photo and video. Is have a look at as many websites as you can. Ideally look at them on a desktop because photos, videos always look better on a desktop. And my mobile side’s not that great because can’t optimize it to be honest. And but have a look. And if you like the photos, if you can see yourself in those photos, in ten years’ time. That’s I think is the point to start approaching people, looking at their prices. Obviously, people’s finances have a massive influence. Yeah. Um I would also say don’t be afraid to if you’re getting married in midweek, don’t be afraid to ask for a discount because people do ask me for a discount. Yeah. And invariably if it’s a midweek, they will Get it. Why not? Why not? The only other answer is no, you can’t. But I think Go in open-minded as well. Know the sort of style that you want. What do you like? Do you like nice natural? Do you want final posed? It’s There is so many different styles, unfortunately, for people. It’s it’s there’s so much to take in. Have a look on Instagram as well. Yeah. And then just narrow people down, kind of stalk them. I know people stalk me. Um so, yeah, get your shortlist, approach those people, have a chat with them. Uh, ask to see a full gallery as well. So you can actually see it an entire wedding. Yeah. So I think that’s really important. Um, and then just go with your gut That’s why I say, oh, your heart.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 32:10
Yeah. I mean, like your wedding photogra you said it earlier on, like your wedding photographer, stroke videographer, either or both. Is going to be the one person who you are going to spend more time with on that day. In some instances, more time than another half, right? Yeah, because you’re probably going to have more moments with a photographer, sort of jointly and separately, than you are anybody else at your wedding. So it’s really got to be somebody that that you that you jowl with, you know, that you get on, that you vibe with. They’ve they’ve got to be they’ve got to be that kind of person, and you’ve got to be their kind of person as well. But I mean, that aside, what would you say is maybe one of the biggest mistakes that couples make when they’re choosing a photographer?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 32:53
I didn’t go with with trends. Yeah. Um there was a trend a l a little while ago of desaturating everything and very pale and pasty photos. Oh wow. Which which was a trend. It was all over Instagram. And you want that in ten years’ time. Um I think, yeah, be guided by what you what you can what you like now and what you’re going to like. And it’s very sort of difficult. question to answer. Yeah. Um but sort of highly edited photos um and gimmicky photos are now People sometimes put dinosaurs in the back of photos.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 33:38
Yes. Yeah, well, that was that was a thing, wasn’t it?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 33:42
No, I wasn’t a thing. Yes, and Selene. Is selective recolouring, which is where you have a black and white photo in your pick. For example, yellow.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 33:53
Okay. I mean, there there are there are a lot of photography trends that have sort of come and gone over the years. Here’s a question. If you could ban one photography trend that that Just forever. Nobody can ever do it again. What would it be? Yeah. Selective recolour. Okay, fair enough.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 34:10
Yeah. Yeah, it’s it’s no, it’s banned. Yeah, I’ll put my hand up. When I started out, I did do a couple. And I was like, that looks really good. And I was like, uh, five years down the line, no, that’s dust.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 34:24
No, it’s awful.
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 34:25
Please don’t do it.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 34:27
I’ll tell you the thing that stuck out for me, and it’s a bit of a morbid thing, right? But it definitely happened, is that I remember seeing somebody’s I was with a group of friends, oh, I’ve had this photo and it looks great. And somebody looked and went, it’s a bit Schindler’s list, though, isn’t it? ‘Cause of course that’s that’s a a huge part of of of that film where there’s this little girl in a red coat and it’s black and white and and you know and and this person kind of went, Oh, God Oh, a d photo was deleted and it never came out again. It’s like yeah, absolutely crazy. What’s your favorite moment of a data capture?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 35:07
Oh, glimey. Um so many honor. There are so many unexchanges as well. Um Long pause silence. Well, I think it’s either It’s probably going to be golden hour. Yeah. Or I’m going to say danceful. It never used to be danceful, but it it It’s starting to get more Dunstro but Golden Allah and link if I had to choose just one. Yeah, uh which hand’s going up? This one Yeah, that’s golden out. I don’t think you see it, but that was just a gifted and it’s in a s a field of sunflowers and it’s absolutely gorgeous.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 35:56
Well, I think that’s you know a beautiful, emotional, artistic, gorgeous style of photo. But what’s interesting is you said also maybe the dance floor, where it’s a complete flip of energy, right? You can get some absolutely fabulous energy. in dance floor photos, which is which is great. Oh, that’s wonderful. Fabulous. Now, of course, people can find all of this information and more and check out your work on your website and Instagram. So if they’re going to go and do that, Adam, where should they be searching for you on the World Wide Web?
Adam Prescott – Award Winning Photographer – Adam Prescott Photography • 36:24
Uh, literally search my name, Adam Presscop. I am not a reggae reggae DJ. That’s the only other Adam Press that Press button that comes up. But it’s quite useful ’cause, um, yeah, I was at a Glastonbury and people thought I was performing at Glastonbury at one point.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 36:39
But if they put Adam Prescott photography, they’ll find that right. Absolutely. Yeah. Yep, they will find that. That’s the way to go. Belt in. And of course, your Instagram. What’s your Instagram handle? Just put in Adam Prescott photography again. Oh, yeah. Great stuff. Wonderful. Well, hopefully, some people will, and that’ll be really lovely. But yeah, we must catch up again soon and do some more weddings together. But in the meantime, Adam, thanks ever so much. And take care. Thank you for watching, Adam. Thanks. There you go, folks. Yet another fabulous chat with Adam and a great discussion about photos and videos at a wedding. So if you are looking for photography that feels natural, relaxed, and genuinely reflective of your day, I can really recommend Adam Prescott photography. I’ve worked with him, he is fabulous, and his photos are absolutely on point. You can find him online at adamprescottphotography. co. uk and you can explore his work in much more detail, of course, on Instagram if you want to. Just search for him, Adam Prescott Photography. And of course, if you are listening, please do like, share and subscribe to this podcast. It’s going to be filled with lots of really useful, helpful information that other people will get a lot of value out of as well. Until next time, folks, remember to choose your suppliers wisely, and I’ll see you soon on another episode of the Supplier Spotlight Podcast. Take care.