What is for each one of us wedding photography and what is the right wedding photography?
The answer surely can’t be given neither by me who is a professional, nor by you who try to choose the ideal through a vast tank of data. Nowadays we tend to find the cheaper choice without taking into consideration the circumstances that affect our decision.
It is widely accepted that the wedding photography has to be chosen by certain criteria, for instance the fact that it happens only once and not by some pictures in a site. Let’s have a look at what lies behind a very low price or a real bargain for our wedding.
Choosing wedding photographer.
Wedding photography and especially every photographer imbeds his own character over the photographs and uses his own technique which differs from one man to another and from one photographer to another. The professional that you will choose must be suitable both to you and the anticipating result. It is impossible to have 15 photographers behind a famous name and that is the reason why top professionals want to deliver the best result checking the quality at the same time.
Wedding photos and care.
The singularity of your moment either for a wedding or a christening rises the value of your records by a great rate.The proper care of your files from that moment on could hold enough gigabyte of data in a hard drive. A professional will save your material two or three times until it is delivered to you and that of course means hundreds of euros to ensure that in hard drives and RAID clusters.
Photographic equipment.
Is the photo the product of the photographer or its equipment? I am of the opinion that the photographer plays vital role and after that the equipment follows. The equipment is important in specific low light situations, in cases that the focus in photos must be rapid (as in wedding photos) and in its creativity. Such an equipment costs thousands of euros and the professional must renew constantly!
Photographer and his training.
Every true professional devotes countless hours in front of a computer and in various contests, seminars to be able to present the best result to whoever will trust him! First of all he is aware of the uniqueness and importance of your moment even better than you. These educational courses cost in time and money to him and his family!
Wedding photo processing-digital album.
Numerous hours in front of an expensive computer, working on complicated, pricy programs in order to make perfect your own personal moment and your love story that will survive in time through your digital album. The choice of the professional is not something to be taken lightly; it takes attention and thorough search.
Someone must take into consideration all the above before he makes up his mind about whether a photographer is cheap or expensive. In order to understand what we pay an artist we should take into account the years spent in training, practice and personal devotion to shoot your personal moments in a unique way! Personally I believe that photography is made first by love and afterwards by need, judging by people I’ve met who love photography. It doesn’t really matter how much you are going to spend to a photographer but the ability he has to deliver something unique as requested!
We all look for low however every time that I paid something really cheap then I had to pay again to buy something more expensive. But in this case you cannot make your wedding again!
Personal experience:
Some years ago I got married as well! I was in the customer’s point of view facing the financial difficulties as everybody else. I didn’t follow any of the advice mentioned above and I received a totally different result that the one I was promised by the photographer. It was a result that made feel embarrassed and got me thinking about starting my own business with my wife, so as to prevent other people to be deceived as I was.
I will not mention the name of the businessman because that would be unethical but let me show you some things from my wedding digital album: my head isn’t so oversized definitely and the lens that has been used had so wide ankle that the distortion wasn’t even removed.
This photo was placed in the wedding digital album…the comments are yours!
That was definitely what we booked when we went to see the specific man who sends people who have nothing to do with photography to shoot pictures.
The choice is yours but remember that what photography reproduces happens only once, at your wedding day
Writter of this article Christos Aggelidis photographer.
Also you can see a very usefull article on how to edit wedding photos from shootdotedit