Wedding photography and film in Winchester.
Your photographs and your film come from one in-house team. We cover Winchester and the cathedral, hall and country venues around it, never two strangers competing for the same shot.
Winchester gives a photographer a lot to work with. The cathedral has strong light coming down the nave, the Great Hall has high windows, and outside there is old stone, chalk streams and the water meadows. It all works well in photographs, as long as someone plans where the light falls and when. We are Robinson Martin Green, a two-person studio based at Mudberry Lane near Chichester, and we cover Winchester weddings across the Itchen valley as one team that shoots both the photographs and the film.
The team is Aaron Robinson on stills and Hayden Martin-Green on film. We work as one unit on the day rather than two suppliers who met for the first time that morning, and in a cathedral or a listed hall that matters more than it sounds. Somewhere with strict rules on where you can stand, a photographer and a filmmaker who have not worked together end up in each other’s frames and competing for the one spot you are allowed during the vows. We have already agreed who stands where, so neither of us blocks the other and you are not the one trying to keep two strangers apart within the venue’s rules.
We should be straight about this. Winchester is about thirty miles from our base, up through the Downs and well inside the area we cover, but we have not yet documented a wedding in the city itself. We would rather tell you that plainly than dress up a page with a Winchester couple who does not exist. What we can show you is real work an easy drive away, and the same two people will be the ones who turn up for you.
One team for photo and film.
Most couples start out planning to hire a photographer and a separate videographer. The hidden cost of that is coordination, and it lands on you. Two suppliers means two timelines to chase, two sets of questions about when the speeches start, and two people who each want the couple to themselves for portraits. Booking the photographs and the film as one studio removes all of that. There is one timeline, one shot list, one point of contact, and one shared plan for how Aaron and Hayden move through your day.
For a Winchester day that usually means a run up from Chichester in the morning, the rules of a cathedral or a listed venue handled by speaking to them and walking it beforehand, and two of us reading the same light so nothing important rests on one person. The great windows give you beautiful, contrasty light at set hours, so we plan where the good light will sit at your ceremony time and hold a little back for portraits along the water meadows when the sun drops. We run stills and film side by side without staging anything twice, agree the moments that matter to you specifically, and stay with you from the getting-ready through to the last of the light so the whole day comes back as one set.
A few of the Winchester settings we are set up for.
Real venues in and around the city, each with something specific to plan around. We visit any of them ahead of your day so the first time we shoot there is not on the day itself.
Winchester and the Itchen valley
- Winchester Cathedral, one of the longest medieval cathedrals in Europe, which holds weddings for couples with a qualifying connection. The great windows throw shafts of light down the nave which give a photograph a real sense of scale.
- The Great Hall, the surviving hall of Winchester Castle and home to the medieval Round Table, licensed for civil ceremonies. Ancient timber and stone under high windows make a strong backdrop for portraits.
- Avington Park, the Palladian house at Itchen Abbas a short drive from the city, with painted ceilings, grand rooms and parkland along the Itchen for portraits in both the house and the grounds.
- Norton Park, a sixteenth-century country-house hotel in the Hampshire countryside near the city, and the Wykeham Arms behind the cathedral for a smaller, characterful day, both offering an intimate, warm-toned setting.
- The water meadows and the clear chalk of the River Itchen, the golden stone of the city and the long soft light of the valley in the last hour, for couples who want the countryside and the ancient city in the frame.
The nearest day we can actually show you.
We would rather point you at a real wedding than pad this page with a testimonial from a Winchester couple we have never met. The closest documented day is Becky and Lucas, which ran from Horsham through to The Highdown, the same two people you would be booking. It is not Winchester, and we are not going to dress it up as if it were, but it is an honest look at how we work across a full day rather than a set of staged sample shots.
Your timeline and shot list in one place.
Your wedding planned in one place.
From the moment you book, your private Wedding Hub keeps the whole day organised.
- One shared timelineYour running order, agreed with both of us, so everyone knows the timings.
- Messages and documentsEvery plan, form and venue detail in one place instead of spread across your inbox.
- Gallery and film deliveredYour photographs and film are delivered to the same place after the wedding.
Common questions from Winchester couples.
Have you photographed at Winchester Cathedral or the Great Hall before?
Not yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. Our documented weddings are a short drive away rather than in Winchester itself. For any venue we have not worked at, we go and visit ahead of the day so we already know the ceremony space, where the light falls through the old glass and the best spots for portraits before we turn up with you. A cathedral or a great medieval hall is a known quantity to plan around even on a first booking, and we check the venue’s rules on where a photographer can stand in advance.
Cathedral light through old glass is beautiful but tricky. How do you handle it?
That light is the reason to photograph a wedding here, and the reason to plan for it. Inside a cathedral or a hall the light comes in great shafts through high windows, gorgeous but contrasty, so we work with those pools of light and place a portrait where the stone glows rather than fighting the shadow with flash. Outside, the golden stone and the water meadows turn soft in the last hour, so we hold a little time back for portraits along the Itchen when the light drops. Two of us means one can be reading the light while the other stays on you.
You are based near Chichester. Does travel to Winchester cost extra?
Winchester is about thirty miles from Mudberry Lane, up through the Downs and well inside the area we cover, so there is no separate travel charge for it. We would tell you upfront if a venue ever fell outside that, rather than adding it quietly later.
More to see before you decide.
We have not shot in Winchester yet, so here are the real days we have covered an easy drive away. If you are weighing up nearby areas, the rest is one click away.
Adam & Panha
A full day at Fitzleroi Barn, Pulborough.Becky & Lucas
Horsham through to The Highdown.Jack & Emelia
A bespoke package at Wasing Park.Winchester films
Our wedding films for Winchester.Petersfield weddings
Photography and film across the South Downs.Areas we cover
Everywhere across Hampshire, the Downs and beyond.Send us your date and your venue.
One of us will reply to you personally, usually within 24 hours, or call us on 07928 549702. We will tell you straight away whether we are free.