{"id":54428,"date":"2020-11-30T12:06:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T12:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=54428"},"modified":"2020-12-03T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T13:31:08","slug":"through-the-lens-of-a-wedding-photographer-in-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2020\/11\/30\/through-the-lens-of-a-wedding-photographer-in-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;My business started crumbling&#8217;: Through the lens of a wedding photographer in lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Welsh wedding and family photographer Katie Radford managed to find a silver lining amid lockdown, keeping her business afloat with her long lens in tow<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-1153x768.jpg 1153w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-1621x1080.jpg 1621w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-1155x770.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-293x195.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-1153x768.jpg 1153w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-1621x1080.jpg 1621w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-1155x770.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-293x195.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/kt2-1-2-edited-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Katie Radford, 33 has run a successful wedding and family photography business for over 10 years. Her livelihood was put into question in March as governments cancelled all social gatherings <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>An audio version of this article is available here<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" title=\"Katie Radford by CardiffJomec\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F926337778&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1200&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"Katie Radford by CardiffJomec\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F926337778&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1200&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching Boris Johnson address the nation from her kitchen table in March this year, Katie Radford had her first  \u201coh sh*t\u201d moment when it dawned on her, the 48 weddings she had booked for the season may not go ahead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 33-year-old photographer from Canton said that within the hour she\u2019d answered her first cancellation call. The calls didn&#8217;t stop there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katie said, \u201cWithin 48 hours I had lost 20 weddings.&#8221; She said it was very dramatic, this was her livelihood, her job, and all of a sudden she couldn&#8217;t do anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignwide\"><blockquote><p>I just had to sit there and wait for another bride to cancel on me<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After two days of postponements and cancellations, Katie said she felt emotionally drained. Looking back now she says it wasn\u2019t until everything calmed down that she got into a routine and started looking for new ways to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong> Where it all began<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>This year marks Katie\u2019s tenth year in the wedding business. She says her career as a photographer came along by accident. After finishing anatomy studies at Cardiff University she got pulled into the world of commercial photography.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said, \u201cIt was always just a hobby, I just happened to be the friend that always had a camera in her hand.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a friend asked her if she\u2019d consider photographing her wedding, Katie\u2019s eagerness to bring out and show the best in people took hold. She said, \u201cThat was it then, I put up the pictures on a really badly designed website and people just started booking me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading\">The doorstep phenomenon&nbsp;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>A decade on and Katie has over 100 weddings in her portfolio. Katie prides herself on her special relationship with clients, some have chosen her to document their whole journey, from engagement to pregnancy shoots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Towards the end of lockdown, Katie had just one masked up wedding under her belt. The changing of the season brought new opportunities. Along with Wedding pictures, Katie also offers family packages. She said families started to think lockdown was a good opportunity to have family photos.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSuddenly I was attacked by this whole baby group,\u201d she said, people were still having babies and couldn\u2019t have the baby shoots.&#8221; With that, doorstep photoshoots were born.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katie would go along to peoples houses, ensuring she kept her distance and take pictures of families, new born babies in tow, outside their front doors. Within a week of the first shoot, Katie had 10 family photoshoots set up. \u201cThank God for my long lens.&#8221; At points Katie said she felt like a creep standing with a camera in people&#8217;s front gardens.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-1152x768.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-1620x1080.jpg 1620w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-1155x770.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-293x195.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-1152x768.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-1620x1080.jpg 1620w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-1155x770.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-293x195.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/frontdoormini1-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Katie&#8217;s <em>family package <\/em>retails at \u00a395<em> <\/em>on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kemradfordphotography.co.uk\/family-and-couple\">website<\/a>. Interest came from new families during lockdown and Katie found herself giving direction to her clients from metres away<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She said it was all very weird, sometimes standing in the middle of the road to get the best shot of the whole family, tucked under their porches, \u201cBut they loved it.\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was good to gain new clients out of such a bizarre situation.&#8221; she said. Since the doorstep photo ops, two of the families have come back for more shoots.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Looking forward<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Katie says she hasn\u2019t done a doorstep photo-op since August (leaving them to the likes of prime ministers and royal babies). She does, however, think they\u2019ll be a good story to tell in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for weddings, Katie\u2019s business has not disappeared into a cloud of dust as she first feared back in April. She\u2019s shot four weddings since the first lockdown and says some people are \u201cHappy to wear a mask down the aisle, this is weddings now.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With fifty-six weddings booked in for next year, she\u2019s taking her positive attitude into 2021 and feels trained and ready to take on a new kind of wedding, whatever that may be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Katie&#8217;s lockdown wedding archive<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"750\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/katies-archive-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"55666\" 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