Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Expect More!

Your wedding photography should be better than you could ever imagine. So many brides just settle for mediocre.

Anyone can take snapshots of your wedding. If that is all you are looking for, save some money and have a relative snap some pictures for you.

It is so unfortunate, but all to often you will get the same results with some "photographers" as you would with a FREE relative! You need to really shop and compare...very carefully. So many photographers will settle for the "do-as-little-as-possible" mentality, just to get by.

There are a lot of photographers that will be more than happy to give you pictures straight out-of-the-camera and burn them onto a DVD. Your wedding is much more important to us than to provide such low service. If you have not seen a comparison of pictures straight out-of-the-camera and pictures that have been retouched and enhanced, you deserve to find out.

Many pretend photographers think that by providing you with snapshots right out of the camera, they are doing you a service. They are not. I have had brides bring me their images on a disc, from a photographer, to fix because they were so bad...(and I will not even go into the amateur posing of the subjects...yikes!).

There is nothing so disturbing than to have a new bride sit in my office and literally cry, while looking over my albums and WebShows, and realizing what she could have had.

The worse part is, she could have had much better quality for just a little more money. She was grossly overcharged for her little disc of 288 images. Yep, that's it, 288...total! I will take that many just in the engagement session or even before the wedding starts. Many times I will shoot well over 1000 images just on the wedding day.

Compare carefully and ask a lot of questions. I can assure you, getting your wedding photography done right the first time, is THE most important decision you can make. There are no re-shoots!

The bottom line here is, if a photographer is giving you the images on a disc for a very low price...RUN!