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Where Heaven Meets Earth photography - Toronto and destination wedding photographers
Address of Toronto ( GTA ) professional wedding photography studio located at 190 Marycroft Ave unit 3, L4L 5Y1 (Toronto, GTA) Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada Tel. 905 265 2224.
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Few words about our photo studio and our wedding photography portfolio
Where Heave Meets Earth photography and video is active on the wedding photography market since 1996. Our Toronto studio is proud members of The Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA) as well as The International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers. Both organizations are amongst the most prestige in the industry.
Hi, here is Mariusz! 2009 was an outstanding year for us! I would like to extend our thanks to wonderful clients we have been blessed with. Thank you so much to all of our precious customers for choosing our photography service to document your wonderful weddings! I would also like to extend my appreciation for all the referrals that you send to us, without you our livelihood and our studio services would not be the same. Thank you very much!!! We are now booking photography and video for 2010 (already mostly booked ) and 2011. Please visit our client gallery of Toronto wedding for more samples of our photography style. Our shooting stule (weddings) is mostly photojournalistic - documentary like images with blend of fashion and illustrative photography. The reason we focus mainly on photojournalism because we believe the style revels best our clint's personalities and captures the moments and emotions of your special wedding day.
Our extensive experience as professional photographers (13 years in business and hundreds of weddings) allows us to provide our clients with the most creative photography service. We believe its the details that make the big difference. We offer an honest and professional service - diverse set of options with emphasis on custom service, rather than an assembly line approach. We are receptive to our clients and believe that everyone has different needs and expectations. Therefore, we provide many opportunities for consultation throughout the whole process of your wedding planning as well as during the post production editing. The post production editing consists of colour and exposure correction of all photos, we also do detail retouching on final wedding and portrait pictures as well as use different techniques to enhance the images such as dogging and burning photo vignette. Our photographers also use different photography effects such as sepia tone, black and white, faded color, cross process, high contrast and many other techniques to enhance the photographs. Some of the photography effects and techniques can be view at our photography in toronto page. .
Our wedding photography studio in Toronto is proud to provide our work to a wide range of cultures and religions. Our Canadian studio offers a broad experience in civil ceremonies, as well as, Catholic, Christian-Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish ( Jewish GTA photo slide show), Hindu (Indian), Jehovah's Witness, Protestant, Celtic (celtic wedding photography in GTA ) Humanist, Buddhist and Spiritualistic wedding ceremonies, just to name a few. Many clients book us because of our low-key approach and our photojournalistic and portraits photography style. We prefer to observe the wedding day rather than direct it. Our photographers and videographers tend to stay in the background, capturing the images and video in a documentary fashion. Our clients can get on with having a good time on their day without worrying about obtrusive photographers or videographers. Different cultures and ethic groups are our wedding photography and video specialty: Italian, Polish, Greek ( greek orthodox Toronto wedding ), Jewish, Indian ( Indian wedding Toronto photographer), Pakistani, Portuguese, Canadian, Arabic, Iranian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Armenian ( Armenian GTA wedding photography sample), German, French, Russian, Egyptian, Mexican and others.
Styles of wedding photography- Photojournalistic style (wedding photojournalism) means documentary or reportage - un posed photographs - all pictures would be taken naturally in candid fashion without any instruction from or awareness of the photographer. Illustrative photography looks like the photos that you see on billboards, and magazines. This is set up like a commercial photography shoot; the photographer arranges every detail of the image. Creative or Artistic photographer takes pictures from unique angles, make use of lighting, etc. This type of photographer creates his or her artistic expressions of your wedding day. Most photographers will combine these styles with emphasis on one that they feel most comfortable with. This will in turn offer you best of wedding photojournalist , illustrative or Artistic photographer creativity and balance your needs for the poses you will need.
Questions and answers
Who is going to be the photographer at our wedding?
What is your wedding photography style?
Do your work in Toronto area only or are you available to photograph a destination wedding?
Are you ok to work with photo check list for the group shoots?
How do we book your wedding photography service and what do your require?
What equipment do you use to photograph weddings?
How many photographs can we expect from our wedding?
Does your photography studio deal with different ethnic weddings?
What experience do you have as wedding photographer ?
Do you have a formal professional training as a photographer?
Can you work well with the other wedding vendors such as wedding planners, videographers and so on.?
What kind of wedding albums do you offer?
Do you include wedding travel fee for your photography and video Package?
Is high resolution DVD (Digital negatives) included in your wedding photography packages?
Do your wedding photography studio offer proofs and what size are they?
Do your photographers or editors retouch our wedding photos?
Does the photographers add any effects on the photographs? is this extra?
How much your wedding photographers charge for our engagement ?
When will the photos be ready?
Does your photo studio offer coffee table style books?
Do your Toronto photographer take posed and family pictures?
Do we get to keep our digital wedding negatives?
Can we reproduce our wedding pictures by our self?
Do your photography prices include tax?
What is the average price of your photography package
How many locations do you photographers cover on the wedding day?
Does your Toronto photography studio offer payment plans?
Do we get our photography deposit back if we cancel our wedding?
Do you offer engagement session?
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Q. photographers at our studio:
There are 2 prime photographers at our studio: Mariusz Lasocha and Art Wiszniewski. Please make sure to set up a meeting with the person you like the style the best.
Q. photography style:
The prime focus of our style is photojournalism (documentary photography) however we love illustrative images as well we cover basic traditional portraitQ. Destination weddings:
Most of the weddings are done locally in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area), however we are open to travel and offer destination photography and video service as well.
Q. photo check list:
Absolutely yes, we highly recommend that you list all family and friends photos you would like to have done at your wedding.
Q. booking our photo and video services:
We recommend that you book us 1 year prior to your wedding date. We have standard photo and video contract to sign as well as initial deposit
Q. we use professional equipment to photograph weddings:
We shoot several professional camera bodies by Canon: 1D mark 2, 1D mark 3, 30D, 5d mark2. We also use whole line of lenses from 10mm (fish eye) to 200 mm. We also use on camera flash units as well as remote power packs and slave light units.
Q. There is no limit to the number of images.
Our photographers don't limit amount of pictures that we take at each wedding. Generally we ends up to be between 50-70 images per hour of coverage
Q. We love different cultures and ethnic weddings.
Over pass 13 years our photographers and videographers have been specializing in many ethic weddings - this is reflected in our photo portfolio. One can see samples of all kinds of cultures and ethnic groups.
Q. We have been blessed to do what we love!
Both our photographers have many years professional experience, We have been active in photography since early teenage years
Q. Both of our Toronto photographers are certified !
We have both gone to great photography schools, Mariusz graduated Ontario Collage of Art and Design and Art has a photography diploma from Humber Collage
Q. working with other wedding vendors.
Our Toronto photographers and videographers have worked with a lot of wedding professionals in Toronto as well as destinations. We are respectful, cooperative and are very happy to work with other vendors.
Q. Photography studio with great selection of wedding albums.
Our photographers and wedding book designers offer great variety of albums such as traditional with matting, parchment pages, coffee table books and magazine style.
Q. Travel fee included in Grater Toronto Area for all wedding packages.
Our photography studio in Toronto covers all of the GTA without andy additional charges. Weddings that are done outside Toronto would be additional travel cost.
Q. The High res. DVD is included in every photography package even the small ones.
The digital negatives are part of our Elements - Toronto wedding photography package. "Elements" is included in every wedding package we offer!
Q. We include your wedding proofs printed and on CD.
Our Toronto photographers offer the photo proofs for every wedding they do. The proofs are in printed and digital form!
Q.The photographers retouch and edit every image taken of your wedding that you choose to print or put in to an album.
Our Toronto wedding studio is proud of the detail work we do on you final images. we do offer full editing included in our photo packages.
Q.Our Toronto photographers add the image effects proofs as well as final images.
We believe the editing of the photographs is an art on its own. That is why we put a lot of emphasis on the effects and over all improvement of the pictures. Our photographers are capable of adding sepia, black and white, colorize, cross process, Venetian just to name a few photography effects.
Q.Most of our photography package include engagement sessions.
Our photo studio offers free engagement session with a lot of the packages that we offer. If your photo package does not include engagement we charge only $250 (1/2 price). How ever if you did not book any package with us your cost will be $500. This will include printed proofs as well as session coverage of half hours drive from our Toronto wedding studio.
Q. Our photographers take time to edit your wedding pictures!
We feel your wedding photographs are the most important part of your wedding. Our Toronto photographers spent a lot of time in the post production editing process. Please allow 2-4 weeks for the photo proofs, and 2-5 months to have the wedding albums ready.
Q. Our studio offers beautiful coffee table style books!
Aside from the traditional photo albums our photography studio have researched a modern and artistic presentation for your wedding photographs. We offer very elegant coffee table style books design by our photography editors and printed and bonded by Graphi Studio- Italy.
Q. We take posed and family pictures at your wedding
although our prime style of photography is wedding photojournalism we take all the necessary posed family images as well as allow time for photo session at the park for staged and candid images.
Q. Every our Toronto photography package include DVD with high Rees. files
Our photo studio offers Digital negatives - high resolution CD/DVD with every package. We feel safer when you have copy of all photos at your home and wanted to make sure they are properly backed up by our photographers as well as our studio clients.
Q. You can print photo enlargements from you DVD
Our Toronto wedding photographers offer the ownership of copy right to share with their clients. Our photo studio is happy if you can reproduce for personal use only as many images as you like without additional cost or charges to your wedding package.
Q. The wedding photo packages are exclusive of taxes
Our Toronto wedding photography prices do not include taxes, however weddings that are done Out of Canada are not subject to sale tax.
Q. Our standard photo studio package price range $2500-$7000. This month package special from starting from only $2200
The prices start from $2500 up to $7000 (including photographer fee) but we also offer specials that greatly reduce the package price of our photography service . The packages include high resolution color corrected DVD, photo proofs, online photo gallery, traditional, coffee table (digital books) or magazine style albums, portraits, engagement photography session, custom framing and image mounting. The destination photo prices are the same as the listed on our price list plus the cost of travel, diet and accommodation. Please note that there is a limited number of weddings we can services, for more information on Toronto photographers visit our wedding resource directory page. Our Toronto wedding video service includes full day coverage, Bride & Groom getting ready, Ceremony,Park, Reception coverage, Guest interviews; Enhanced Digital editing including choice of music, opening titles, closing credits, Grow-up picture montage, Honeymoon pictures montage, or video clips, Highlights during parents dance, Wedding Day highlights, Bloopers, Highlights with message on DVD or mini DVD, Original Footage DVD, Video on DVD - 10 copies with chapters motion, or custom menu.If you would like to review wedding photography portfolio and looking for Toronto wedding photojournalist - or a wedding photo and video studio our photographer and videographers cover weddings in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), including Oakville, Burlington, Hamilton, Vaughan, Brampton, Mississauga, Scarborough as well as other Southern Ontario Cities and Towns such Aurora, Barrie, Brampton, Georgetown, Guelph, Hamilton, Kitchener to name a few. We also offer our photogrpahy services in the United States, Europe and popular Destinations.
Q. Our photographers don't limit wedding locations
Our wedding photo studio works based on hourly rate there for we have no limits for the wedding locations you would like to choose.
Q. Our photographers offer friendly wedding payment plans
Our wedding photography studio offers different plans for different packages we have. It usually either three or 4 payments plus your basic deposit to reserve your wedding date.
Q.Our photographers don't refund deposits.
The deposit for your wedding is non refundable however if your date is postpone we will be happy to re-book the wedding for you and apply the deposit to another date assuming the date is available.
Q. We offer hands on photography classes at our Academy of photographic Arts .
our school offers private classes as well as group of 6 students for basic and portrait photography course. Our advance courses consist of group of two or individual for comprehensive wedding photography training. We offer basic photography classes where students learn standard camera settings and basic editing skills of their images. The course consist of studio and field classes. Intermediate courses (groups of four) consist of studio portrait lighting techniques, intermediate editing and raw image processing. They also cover basic business skills as well as portfolio development. Advance courses (group of 2) are focus on advance development of photography style, portfolio development, business promotion techniques, website development basics all with expiries at real weddings. This is great for folks who dream about becoming a wedding and portrait professional photographer. Please contact us for more information.
Q.Our studio offer Engagement session
our photographers offer Engagement session either in our studio - Woodbridge, Ontario or on location usually done in the parks or streets around Toronto. Here is a sample of Engagement shoot.
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