I can’t believe I came across this amazing episode of Judge Joe Brown where a bride didn’t do her research in hiring her wedding photographers, and where the wedding photographers didn’t know what they were doing! Unfortunately it’s so easy for anyone now to pick up a camera and call themselves a “photographer” and will have no problem charging you a very low amount to shoot your wedding with “(not really) professional equipment.”
Here is the reality– wedding photographers have a huge difference in cost everywhere you go, because every photographer’s overhead and experience level is different. Picking your wedding photographers involves much more research than just picking out what color bows are going to be on the back of your reception chairs. Find someone who is educated, who does this full time as their sole income, has the proper equipment (and backup equipment), has the experience, a great portfolio, and knows how to work in any lighting condition possible! Photography translated literally is “the recording of light rays” –we see light differently. We know how it will look when it’s recorded onto a sensor. We know how to manipulate it and make it change colors, how to create shadows, how to create highlights, and how to make it brighter and darker. We know how to shape it, play it, and we’re educated on how to make it look flattering. We spent a criminal amount of money on a degree that teaches us these things, as well as how to pose and speak to you, how to conduct a legal business, and how to make you happy as a bride as well as be able to feed ourselves, our family, and keep a roof over our heads while doing what makes us happy.
We don’t just show up and click a button if that’s what you think. And if you do, then you deserve nothing less than snapshots. If you have to have open heart surgery for a clogged artery, I’m sure you wouldn’t want a “doctor” who thinks that it’s just about splitting open some skin and clearing out a pipe.
Don’t make the same mistake as this woman!
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