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It is really a dangerous time right now
to be trying to hire a wedding photographer
Now that there are fairly decent quality consumer grade digital
cameras readily available, and you can check your results right
after each shot to see what you got, it seems like everyone and
their uncle wants to be, believes they can be and are trying to be
"wedding photographers".
Never before has there been such a total glut of "wedding
photographers" as has appeared just here recently. The only trouble
is most of these self-proclaimed "wedding photographers" lack any
actual formal professional training or experience. And fewer yet
lack any (or very little) formal training regarding how to
capture and tell the "STORY" of your wedding day.
Not everyone really has what it takes to be a
good wedding photographer. Some people may take good pictures,
but may not be very good at handling other requirements, like being
able to efficiently handle and work with people, being honest, being
on time and reliable or in being able to run a business like a
business.
A lot of people are not good at handling money
and it seems to flow through their hands as fast as they take it in.
If you get a "wedding photographer" that blows all the money they
take in as soon as they get it, how are they going to be able to pay
for the materials to put your album together when it's due to be
delivered? You often hear about this type of "wedding photographer"
on TV news show exposés ...and they give real wedding photographers
a bad name and a black eye. But, hey, they are out there and
they still want to try to be your
"wedding photographer".
Some will tell you anything to get
hired for the assignment, even to the point of pretending to be
really interested in all the details "your wedding". [I,
personally, only get really interested in someone else's wedding
details, once I know that I am going to be the photographer
photographing it!]
What should you look out for ESPECIALLY TODAY
in hiring a wedding photographer?
So, how do you know what you are getting
nowadays when you hire a "wedding photographer"? First off, if I was
hiring a wedding photographer for a wedding that was important to
me, I wouldn't consider hiring anyone who has not been photographing
weddings for a bare minimum of 5 years or who has not photographed
at least 100 weddings on their own, preferable more like 200
weddings. I can tell you from experience that during the first 100
weddings and 5 years, even with professional training and education,
it's pretty much on-the-job training with your wedding and reception
being used as a personal testing ground for their gaining
experience and cutting their teeth as wedding photographers!!
Next, I'd want a photographer that
photographed wedding on film for at least 3 of those five years,
before switching over to digital. When you photograph with film, you
have to get it right and you have to actually know what you are
doing in order to get it right! So if you hire a photographer with
film-experience, you are much more likely to hire someone who
actually knows the how and why of taking good photographs.
To feel totally safe, I'd try to hire a photographer for
whom photography provides their only source of income and, even better if
ONLY photographing weddings provides 100 percent of his/her annual income,
if I could find one. My father taught me three things: 1) the gun is
always loaded, 2) there is always someone in your blind spot when you are
driving and 3) trusting in a part-timer always leads to disaster! (These may not
always be true, but presuming them true sure can keep you out of a lot of bad
but avoidable jams!)
If a "photographer" tries to show you his "wedding portfolio" that
consists of random photos of different weddings mixed together, get up and run
as fast as you can! This is usually the sign that they are new to the trade and
don't have complete sample albums to show you. Anyone can show you a bunch of
beautiful random photos combined from different weddings and have it "look
good"!
What you want to see are actual sample albums,
where each album contains ONLY one wedding as the album was
delivered to the bride. Most good photographers can also show you
slide shows of every single photo that they have taken at several
recent weddings. By watching the slideshows, you can get a pretty
good feeling about the photographer's overall quality, thoroughness
and ability.
If I am available to photograph your IN/OH/KY
wedding, I offer you over 20 years of personal professional wedding
photography experience, with 100 percent of my annual income for the
past several years coming from photographing ONLY weddings. I was
one of the very first in the area to go totally digital and haven't
used a roll of film since 1998! I have complete sample albums
of weddings and slideshows of complete weddings as recent as last
weekend to show you.
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