Choosing a Wedding Photographer
A few tips to ensure you get the best images from your day:
1. Shop Around
Google until you can Google no more. Look at style and price, although you generally get what you pay for, but everyone has a budget.
Bowman Photos Rates
2. Your Style
How do you want your day photographed? Do you want set shots or a documentary approach? Do you want a "bossy" photographer or one you will barely know is there? Let the photographer know what you want. Find your favourite wedding shots on the internet and ask the photographer if they can capture images like that. I'm a photo-jounralism/documentary style photographer. Most of my shots are candid with a few "must have" group and posed shots.
3. REAL Wedding
Ask to see a real wedding the photographer has done. Many photographers have fake model shots in their portfolios. Wedding photography is very different from setting up a shoot with a model.
Bowman Photos REAL Weddings
4. WHOLE Wedding
Ask to see an entire wedding from start to finish. Anyone can get a few shots of the day, but to capture the entire event is challenging.
Contact me to see entire wedding albums, 500+ of photos
5. Quality Gear
Cameras break. Make sure your photographer has reliable, quality gear AND back ups. Having only one top quality camera is the first indication of an amateur that could "drop the ball".
Bowman Photos Gear
6. Meet Up
Meet with your photographer well before the day to discuss details such as locations, running order, "special shots", exchange contact numbers(bride, groom and a few other reliable contacts), overall style and post wedding arrangements.
7. Editing
Editing images is nearly as much an art form as photography itself. Review your photographer work and see if there are many photos over/underexposed, poorly lit or with bad colour. Or you can make sure your photographer is a cable editor by asking for a before and after image.
8. Who owns the photos?
This is your and your photographers decision, but make sure you know who owns the photos. If the photographer does you may have to pay for prints or files, and they can charge a fortune. I don't do prints or albums, I burn all edited photos and originals onto a DVD for you to keep.
9. Friendly and easy to work with
You will spend a lot of time with your photographer on one of the biggest days of your life, make sure you get on well with them.
Good luck and choose carefully.
1. Shop Around
Google until you can Google no more. Look at style and price, although you generally get what you pay for, but everyone has a budget.
Bowman Photos Rates
2. Your Style
How do you want your day photographed? Do you want set shots or a documentary approach? Do you want a "bossy" photographer or one you will barely know is there? Let the photographer know what you want. Find your favourite wedding shots on the internet and ask the photographer if they can capture images like that. I'm a photo-jounralism/documentary style photographer. Most of my shots are candid with a few "must have" group and posed shots.
3. REAL Wedding
Ask to see a real wedding the photographer has done. Many photographers have fake model shots in their portfolios. Wedding photography is very different from setting up a shoot with a model.
Bowman Photos REAL Weddings
4. WHOLE Wedding
Ask to see an entire wedding from start to finish. Anyone can get a few shots of the day, but to capture the entire event is challenging.
Contact me to see entire wedding albums, 500+ of photos
5. Quality Gear
Cameras break. Make sure your photographer has reliable, quality gear AND back ups. Having only one top quality camera is the first indication of an amateur that could "drop the ball".
Bowman Photos Gear
6. Meet Up
Meet with your photographer well before the day to discuss details such as locations, running order, "special shots", exchange contact numbers(bride, groom and a few other reliable contacts), overall style and post wedding arrangements.
7. Editing
Editing images is nearly as much an art form as photography itself. Review your photographer work and see if there are many photos over/underexposed, poorly lit or with bad colour. Or you can make sure your photographer is a cable editor by asking for a before and after image.
8. Who owns the photos?
This is your and your photographers decision, but make sure you know who owns the photos. If the photographer does you may have to pay for prints or files, and they can charge a fortune. I don't do prints or albums, I burn all edited photos and originals onto a DVD for you to keep.
9. Friendly and easy to work with
You will spend a lot of time with your photographer on one of the biggest days of your life, make sure you get on well with them.
Good luck and choose carefully.
