The Wedding Day

 

Should be the most important day in a Brides life.

 

When the ceremony is over, the hired carriages are back in their garages, the guests have gone home, the cakes been consumed, the guests have left the reception and the honeymoon is a memory, the only thing left to remind you of the day you changed your life forever are the photos, these are the only lasting reminder.

 

 If you’re not happy with them, what have you got?

 

Yet most couples pick their photographer as the last item on the list, after all the budget has been allocated, the photos and photographer are almost an afterthought.

 

Nowadays with digital cameras anyone can call themselves a photographer, but are they really, or are they relying on the software dreamt up by the programmers at the camera company?

I often hear of people taking hundreds if not thousands of images at weddings and proclaiming the couple will get all the images fully professionally edited. It is impossible unless they are working for less than minimum wage, due to the amount of time it would take to edit hundreds of images. Law of averages dictates that they will get some acceptable shots from so many taken, but are they really the best that you should expect on this day, of all days?

 

Here are a few questions you can ask when deciding who should capture your perfect day.

 

Does the photographer have a back up camera, lenses and flash units, should they fail on the day, any wedding photographer who takes his job seriously will have, hence the costs to cover this inventory.

 

Will they visit the ceremony venue before the date to ascertain where they will get the best shots, where the sun will be at the time of the wedding, after all photography is painting with light.

 

What Image backup facilities do they use should the disk or memory stick they give you fail?

Professional photographers say that with digital media, if you haven’t got 3 copies of your work in three different locations, you don’t have any. This is another thing that is in the costs, that isn’t seen.