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Choosing Your Wedding Photographer

Booking a photographer for your wedding is not like buying a new television. Once you decide on the television make and model, you can go on to the web and find the lowest price. After all, a Panasonic TX-P42G10E is a Panasonic TX-P42G10E no matter how much you can reduce the price. Not so with wedding photography. Don’t play roulette on the biggest day of your life by allowing a less experienced photographer to experiment with your wedding photography.

If you think you have been given a very good deal, be careful that the photographer has not been under pricing the market and may go out of business before your wedding day.   This is definitely becoming more common in the current economic climate.

Choose photographers you can trust, photographers with integrity, photographers who will be there for you on your big day and who will not offend you or your guests. You must arrange meetings with several photographers to see their work and to assess their personalities.

When looking at their work, ask yourself, can the photographers create moments of fun and lightness and then capture them? Great photographic moments rarely happen by themselves, they are crafted by photographers. When assessing wedding pictures look especially at the facial expressions in the group shots. These emotions are a direct indication of the ambience created by the photographer at that time.

Look at a minimum of 2 complete weddings from start to finish then ask yourself: Do you feel that you were there? Were you emotionally moved by the pictures? Was the presentation and print quality to the standard that you are happy with?
Is the style of the photography you are shown exactly what you want for your album? If not, choose other photographers.

For further information, you may wish to read

http://photocritic.org/why-is-wedding-photography-so-expensive/

Ten Points to Ask Your Photographer

  • Are you a full time or part time photographer?
  • How long have you been in business?
  • Are these images taken by the photographer who will take my photographs?
  • Have you attended a recognised training course in wedding photography?
  • How many weddings have you photographed in the last year?
  • Do you have professional indemnity insurance?
  • Do you have public liability insurance?
  • Do you have a back up wedding camera, lens and lighting? (not a small compact camera or film camera)
  • Do you spend time colour correcting the images or are they straight from the camera? (all images must be colour corrected)
  • Can you show me a Winter wedding? (if your wedding is in late Autumn, Winter or early Spring with low light levels and early dark evenings)

Good luck and choose wisely.

Important Information about CDs and DVDs

If your photographer offers you a CD or DVD with your wedding package, ask him -

1. Are the files colour corrected or straight from the camera? (If they are straight from the camera you will take weeks to make them into reasonable images unless you are a master at Photoshop.)

2. Are the files presented as a slide show? (A slide show can only played from the beginning to the end and you cannot make any prints from individual files.)

3. Are the files low resolution jpg? (You can show individual files on a computer or e-frame, make your own slide show, however you cannot make prints as the quality is too low for printing.)

4. Are the files high resolution jpg? (You will be able to show them on a computer, make your own slide show and make prints from individual files. This is the best option.)

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