Greece or Santorini wedding photographer
Are you searching for an english
speaking destination wedding
photographer to meet you in Santorini, Athens, or other parts of Greece?
Glen Johnson is a professional wedding photographer with a unique blend of photojournalism and bold portrait styles. This style, called Portrait Journalism, has evolved into the most desired form of wedding photography because it creates a collection of images with a combination of dramatic creative portraits of the Bride and Groom, and a large selection of shots that are natural and spontaneous - capturing your family and friends in a way that minimizes the posed look and the awkward interruptions throughout the day.
Glen's goal is to document the whole story of the day, and his greatest gift as a photographer is in his ability to see and capture the natural beauty in what most people see as mundane, everyday moments. No glance is insignificant, no smile too common. These moments are the ones that tell the real story of your wedding day. In the end, Brides are often deeply touched by the natural joy and the real moments Glen captures in his images.
Experience counts! Wedding photography is very different from other types of photography and even though you may have a relative that is an excellent photographer, an experienced wedding photographer will know exactly when to be in a certain spot to capture the important moments throughout the day. Over the past nine years, Glen has shot hundreds of weddings in the US and approximately 40 destination weddings outside the US. This experience is priceless when it comes to capturing the natural, un-posed story of a wedding as it unfolds. In 2006 the publisher John Wiley and Sons asked Glen to put this experience down in a book. You can find the finished product, titled: Digital Wedding Photography, on the shelves at any major bookstore in the US or on the Internet.
If you're looking for exceptional wedding photography, we hope you take some time to browse through the slideshow links above where you'll find hundreds and hundreds of pictures. This should give you an excellent view into the type of images Glen creates. And the creativity you find there will attest to the fact that Glen has no set formula for wedding photograhy and no limits on what a wedding photograph can be. Every wedding is unique - the pictures should be too.
There are also many educational links above that you might find helpful as you make your wedding plans.
How to Reserve
your date: If you like what you see in
the slideshows, simply contact Glen to make sure your
date is open and to discuss the possibility of getting the same level
of exceptional wedding
photography for your own wedding day.
The FAQ page will answer many of the most common questions you may have.
In May of 2006 I had the pleasure of visiting Greece to shoot the wedding of Wendy & Michael in Oia (pronouned Eea) on Santorini island. I spent 10 days traveling around and exploring the country before and after the wedding. Greece is truly a beautiful country with lots unspoiled coastline dotted with quaint little fishing villages, and beautuful mountains as well. The mountain villages are my favorite. I've never seen a people that lived so simply and in so much natural beauty. Seeing it makes me sad to think of what we "modern" people have traded for our technological lifestyle.
We reached the island of Santorini by taking the overnight ferry from Athens. We arrived at Santorini at about 8am, and after a short wait, we caught the shuttle bus to Fira, and then on to Oia. Oia is the classic Santorini town that you see in pictures and postcards of the area. White and blue are pretty much the only colors which must make it very easy to keep paint stocked at the local hardware store. The buildings are constructed almost entirely with rock and cement and almost all of them have the classic domed roof with a coating of bright white paint. The walkways are paved with Marble as are many streets and walkways throughout Greece. The main part of town is very touristy but contrary to most tourist areas, there is actually a wide variety of materials for sale in the shops. By far the highest concentration is on local jewelry products, many of them are replicas of ancient greek artifacts. If you're in the market for a gold piece that will really stand out when you wear it in the states, Greece is a great place to find such a treasure. However, the prices are not what you would call cheap by any standards. In fact, I would say that in general, nothing in Greece is cheap except the food you find at local (non tourist) food markets. The conversion to Euros makes everything more expensive for Americans.
If you want to plan a wedding for this area I can reccomend Sunset villas (in Oia) for your guests, as well as several small places that rent rooms in Finikia which is just a 10 minute walk away from the cliffs of Oia. The cliffside dwellings all rent for various amounts from about $100 Euros per night and up. In Finikia, you can find very comfortable and extremely cute little places for about 40-50 Euros per night.
2006 samples of Santorini wedding photography.
2007 more Santorini wedding photography.2007 slideshow slideshow from our wanderings around Greece and Santorini
Santorini Resources
Santorini Hair Salon Sea Captain's House Santorini Wedding Planner
The travel fee for this location is... $400
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My contract
includes “Home Use Rights”
which means that you can use the images for personal, non-transferable
and non-commercial uses (ie, making all the prints you want).
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to get more details on this issue.
Pricing:
Read about the Creative Fee and
other details about how wedding photographers price their services,
and how this fee structure determines the motivation for the types of
photos they take.
All original files are shot in RAW format, then back in the office we spend hours individually color correcting each image - adjusting the brightness/darkness and color balance as necessary to bring out the absolute best in every shot we take.
We're All Digital: Glen creates his unique wedding images with Canon Professional Digital Cameras and lenses. He currently shoots with Canon 5D camera bodies. Glen shoots everything in RAW format for the high quality and extreme flexibility of exposure these files allow. For your disks Glen will convert the RAW files to JPEG files unless you specifically request to receive the RAW files instead. If you are shopping wedding photographers, be sure to ask if they shoot everything in RAW format as this has a tremendous effect on the final image quality. Read more about RAW.
Map of past wedding locations.
The following is an email I received from some of our Santorini wedding couples.
Dear Glen and Amelie, Roger and I want to sincerely thank you for the lovely photos you took for our wedding. The pictures came out beautifully, and our family and friends tease us that we look like we are in a brochure for Santorini. It was wonderful to spend the day with you roaming from Oia to Finikia, and capturing moments which we will cherish forever. And we love that the photos did not come across staged, that you were so open to our ideas, and that you gave us a very fair price. Actually, looking at the quality of the finished photos, we think it might have been a steal! So many of the pictures came out well, that it was really difficult to narrow them down for the slide show we showed to our family and friends. Quite serendipitously, everything came together perfectly, far better than we could have imagined. The day before, we arranged for the cake and flowers, and found the balcony location for the ceremony. I bought my dresses (from Naeem Khan and Vera Wang) at sample sales—the first dresses I saw, probably about a month before, and Roger bought his duds at discount stores a week before our flight. So, our wedding photography was what we splurged on, but we felt it was well worth it to preserve our beautiful memories. After being together for 14 years and attending several weddings, we wanted our wedding to be a little bit different, a private ceremony in which we professed our promises of love. It was very un-formulaic, but romantic, with just the two of us. It made for lots of laughs and tears. So, thank you so much for being our only witnesses to our vows (and, thank you, Amelie, for reminding Roger that the ring goes on his left hand, not his right!). While our family and friends weren’t there, we feel that, through your pictures, we were able to bring our wedding to them --- the emotions and love from our ceremony, as well as the breathtaking beauty of Santorini. It was great working with both of you. Hopefully we will get published in Cosmo Bride Australia! Have a happy holiday and a wonderful new year! Best wishes, Lisa Toledo and Roger
Lee From :
Toy, Wendy Dear Glen, I just wanted to thank you again for coming out to Greece to take our wedding pictures. I was a little afraid to book a photographer on-line without meeting them and was afraid since the wedding was all the way in Greece but the minute I saw your website and your pictures, I had no doubt in my mind that I wanted you to take our wedding pictures. The pictures that you have posted on your website are already beautiful but when I saw ours, I was really blown away and realized just how lucky we were that we were able to book you with your busy schedule. You really did an amazing job of capturing us and capturing the true beauty of Santorini! What we really liked the most about you, is that you took the time to research different areas to find the places that you thought would be a good and creative place to take our pictures. We also loved that you were so easy and great to work with you. You made us feel at ease and therefore, we were able to relax, have fun and be ourselves, which is reflected in our pictures. The dedication that you put in your work and with your clients is evident in the quality of your pictures. We will always cherish our time and memories in Greece and thanks to you, all we have to do is look at our pictures and it's like we're there all over again. I can't say enough about how great our pictures turned out and neither can all of the people that I have sent our pictures to. I hope that everyone who comes across your website will be smart enough to book you as fast as they can....they will be very thankful they did because we are! Thanks for everything Glen and thanks for capturing this very special time in our lives in such a professional, creative and amazing way. Sincerely, By the way, here are a few of the emails responses from people I have sent the pictures to: From:
Roberson, Dayna From:
Sawall, Judy From:
Gehlen, Mary
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