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Hi, I'm Stuart 👋
Friendly
People Person
Passionate
Winner Best Wedding Photographer Europe and Asia at 2024 RSVP International Awards in Istanbul.
Named Best Wedding Photographer to look out for in 2024 by London Events Atelier.
I am SO passionate about my work and my couples. Let me give you world-class images of your special day.
“It is a gift when we come across the works of a “brilliant artist”. Stuart Wood carries such a title. The memories he creates are breathtaking”
Sharon Sacks, named World’s Top Wedding Planner.
Stuart Wood Pricing & Costs
£2,500 - £6,500
Full day coverage from bride and groom getting ready to first dance covered digitally starts at £2.5k.
Presented in luxury handmade Italian album at £4k.
Presented in premium luxury handmade Italian album, 90 minutes coverage after first dance, pre-wedding shoot & 10 x A4 mounted prints at £6.5k.
Luxury Collection
From
£2,500
BECAUSE EVERYONE DESERVES A TASTE OF LUXURY
Regardless of whichever collection you choose, the photography is never compromised and is always luxury standard.
Splendour Collection
From
£4,000
WHAT A SPLENDID IDEA.
This collection is for those that want their photographs presented in a luxury album.
Indulgence Collection
From
£6,500
WE ALL NEED TO INDULGE OURSELVES FROM TIME TO TIME
For the ultimate experience.
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Stuart Wood Details
Photography Style
Modern
Artistic
Editorial
Products and Services
Bridal Prep Shots
Back-Up Equipment
Online Proofing
Flexible Hours on the Day
Stay Through Speeches
Images on DVD
Stay Through Dancing
Large Group Shots
Thank You Cards / Photo Stationery
Second Shooter Available
Wedding Albums
Personal Online Gallery
Pre-Wedding Venue Visit
Pre-Wedding Consultation
Digital Editing / Airbrushing
Images on USB
Photo Printing
Stuart Wood Full Description
It is no coincidence that my couples look like they have fallen straight from the pages of the top magazines when you consider that for over two decades, I have been a successful people and portrait photographer and I continue to work in every part of the UK and worldwide for some of the largest magazines and I have shot the publicity pictures for some of the biggest TV productions. As a result, I also work with some of the most famous celebrities. Clients such as GRAZIA, BBC, Cosmopolitan, ITV & Radio Times, for whom I have shot various covers, have all commissioned me to shoot their pictures.
This has given me a set of skills that is somewhat unique, certainly amongst other luxury wedding photographers. To work at this level I have had to learn the ability to work swiftly under extreme pressure and all without sacrificing any important detail, how to connect and work quickly with people and fully understand and master the high end lighting techniques for both women and men that makes them look fabulous.
I am also a preferred supplier to some of the best luxury venues and wedding planners.
Perfect for your wedding.
YOUR STORY
I will capture your day, your memories, your story. Whether your family views your luxury wedding photographs in a month or fifty years from now, they will see your entire day chronicled.
THE LOOK
Never formulaic, I am passionate about making your wedding photography a blend of spontaneous moments with lifestyle compositions. Think rich textures and painterly lighting and faultless timing, like someone pressed pause on your wedding day at the perfect moment.
THE APPROACH
Bringing the very best of my years of experience in editorial and celebrity work to your wedding day and being your wedding photographer means that I work professionally, swiftly and unobtrusively and you will remain completely comfortable throughout the process, resulting in my signature relaxed and natural photography.
Experience
Year Business Was Established
1994
No. of Weddings Hosted
More than 50
Public Liability Insurance
Yes
No. of People In Team
2
Stuart Wood Location & Contact Details
FAQs
Find out a bit more from our FAQs
What is your most memorable wedding?
I continue to shoot weddings all over the UK and internationally and they are all memorable. I am proud to say that I continue to give my very best to every single one of them. After all, isn’t that why I am there?
Describe your style in 5 adjectives.
Touching, Luxury, Editorial, Chique, Passionate
What about your business are you most proud of?
I have so many awards and achievements that I have attained over the years. Shooting my first Radio Times cover was a very proud moment.
One particular personal project that springs to mind was my Six Six Forty Four portraits of D Day veterans that was completed for the 75th Anniversary. This became a major exhibition that was proudly shown at the National Memorial Arboretum, The D Day Exhibition at The Portsmouth Museum alongside portraits from the Royal Collection and the National Army Museum. The accompanying book which raised a lot of money for charity, has now been accessioned permanently to the British Library. The curator of the British Library thought the book of portraits and personal stories was far too important to not be int he national Library. All of that from a crazy idea that grew into something very important.
What is your No. 1 wedding planning tip for couples?
Factor in some time, if only for a few minutes, so that you can be alone together on your wedding day. Everyone will want a piece of you both on the day and this will continue throughout your day. And it goes so quickly too. Have a few minutes together away from it all. I promise you that you will remember it.
What is your favourite personal touch you have seen at a wedding?
I love it when fathers get emotional when seeing their stunning daughters in their wedding dress for the first time. There is something very ‘British’ about men not crying. What utter rubbish! I have seen the toughest men weep like babies when first glimpsing their girl ready to leave and get married. I once photographed a man who sobbed when he saw his lovely daughter and he wrote to me later to thank me and told me they were the most beautiful pictures that he had ever had taken of him. Weddings should be about happiness and heightened emotions and I want that recorded beautifully.
Describe your typical process with a couple.
While I always take the ‘safe’ pictures that mothers want for the mantelpiece, my vast experience at shooting people all over the world for major magazine and tv campaigns and now luxury weddings means that I want much more than a mere ‘likeness’ of my couples. Known for connecting with people swiftly and relaxing them too, I love to take our pictures to places that they never thought possible. I have literally had my couples and sometimes even their close family in tears when they see what we have achieved together and capturing such special moments together.
So my coverage includes both a documentary style of securing the elements of the day as they happen that I need to record, plus using all my experience to create my signature high end editorial style portraits of my couples.
This is all achieved throughout the day. I never want to turn my couple’s wedding day into a photo shoot and unless we have no other choice (usually because of weather issues) I will never take them away from their celebrations for more than a few minutes at a time.
What is the No. 1 photo that you think every couple should take?
Apart from the traditional images of walking down the aisle, cutting the cake etc, I always encourage that we explore the venue throughout the day and secure those special contemporary couple images and be creative with this too. This is where my extensive experience comes in and my specialty high end lighting techniques shine (no pun intended) I always pack my own lighting and my assistants are fully trained to use the kit. It is not unusual for my assistant to be prone on the floor directly behind my couple to add a subtle backlight.
What is the most original photo you’ve been asked to take at a wedding?
I was once shot a wedding at a 5 star deluxe hotel in Switzerland and asked to get an evening ‘spectacular’ to finish the album off nicely.
While the wedding breakfast was in full swing and I was not missing anything important, I used this time to source the perfect location. The beautiful arched window that I wanted to pose my couple in had some annoying bright reflections from the hotel’s own street lights and exactly where they would be standing too! I went to the reception and asked to speak to the manager. When he turned up I politely asked if it was possible to lose the lighting for a few minutes and showed him the problem by producing a test picture on the back of my camera. He smiled and said that he had never been asked that before and then reached for the telephone to instruct his engineer to go to the offending lamp and temporarily disconnect the wires.
So all this preparation was done while my couple and their guests were enjoying themselves and when we were finally ready, they only had to stand at the window for a couple of minutes before I sent them back to their wedding celebrations.
When those special pictures are happening, something in me takes over and only the ‘Mona Lisa’ will do for my lovely couples. Once in Santorini we were experiencing the most perfect sunset over the sea. I wanted my couple backlit against this amazing canvas that would only last a few minutes. The videographer volunteered to hold my camera on the tripod as I moved in swiftly to fine tune every detail of the lighting and pose. It was all done within 2-3 minutes and the perfect photograph was captured. When I thanked the videographer he said how amazed he was watching how I work. He then asked me how many times did I think I had moved in to adjust the detail. Being totally absorbed in getting the picture I suggested about five times in those 2-3 minutes. No, he said because he had counted them. No less than sixteen times I had gone in and adjusted every detail, which even I had absolutely no idea of!
Not much will ever stop me getting the very best for my couples !
What do you recommend for a rainy day wedding?
I plan for every contingency. I always have studio lighting on hand if I need to shoot indoors. If the weather is really bad then we shoot the groups inside the venue. On such days I will be watching the weather very closely and if there is even the briefest of breaks in the rain, I will have a location ready and prepped so that we get at least some exterior pictures. I once did a wedding on the south coast during a gale! The hotel had a lovely wooden jetty and between the rain and despite the wind being so loud they could not hear me, the bride and groom stood right at the end of the jetty in the gale with Mother Nature providing ultimate drama. Fabulous image!
Describe how you got into photography.
Always loved those mysterious black boxes whose merest and almost imperceptible click would produce such magical results. The aura that seemed to surround them utterly fascinated me as a child. Still does! I have always kept my father’s original camera that was taken with us on those holidays. I always avidly read photography magazines, despite back then being totally confused about this new language discussing apertures, f stops, shutter speeds etc. When I left school and started work, I saved hard to get my first real camera and when I bought it I would sit with it in my hands at night while watching tv and simply covet this marvel. From that moment on and I suppose until the very end, developed (again, no pun intended) an intense love affair that permeates every single cell of my being. People are often surprised by my passion and enthusiasm when I am taking pictures. This passion not only never wanes, but only grows. I do love my job and am so proud to be a photographer.
Giving up my career as a budding supermarket manager thirty years ago (my then manager thought I was mad and I agreed that I might be) I left to attend a full time photography course at Salisbury College of Art. Came out with a distinction after three years and a fire in my belly and winning Photography Student of the Year at the Photographers Gallery in London. While at college as a student and knowing I was a people photographer , I contacted 250 celebrities to take their picture and secured 25 of them. As a result of this I was commissioned by a national magazine while still a student and moved into magazines and tv photography. Over the years since leaving college, I have shot major commissions for the magazines and tv companies all over the UK and worldwide.
I am a Fellow for the BIPP and SWPP. I write regular columns for blogs and magazines and I regularly teach and hold workshops in the UK and internationally on my specialty lighting and people photography skills. I am also an ambassador for Elinchrom lights.
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