FAQs
- What types of customers have you worked with?
I shoot weddings, engagements session, as well as family and other portraiture. I have one family that I have done pretty much everything from their engagement session to their maternity shoot, and just recently their daughters 1 year shoot. The engagement session is a nice way to meet the photographer and see what you will look like from his camera perspective. Think of it as an investment in yourself.
- What advice would you give a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?
Look at the work and see if this is the right photographer for your needs or perhaps your body style. It is easy to photograph a run way model, not because she is any better looking then the average person, its because she know how to move and how to pose. A good photographer will examine the body type of the person and then adjust his composition and angles to enhance clients best features and hide or reduce the ones she or he does not like too much. During an engagement session I get to observe the clients in more of a relaxed state than on their wedding day. This allows me to create rapport with them and in turn it allows the clients to understand my gestures, my commends, and needs to create the best version of themselves. So, look at the photographers portfolio and try to identify your self with one of the example wedding or engagement session he or she will present and make an honest observation: "Do I like how that person turned out in the photograph?" If the answer is no, then I would advise to look for a different photographer.
- What questions should customers think through before talking to professionals about their project?
Most people do not realize what does it take to photograph weddings. The common perception is that a photographer shows up at a wedding, shoot few thousand pictures, pick the best few hundred, burns a DVD and viola! The truth is, and you can ask my wife if you don' t believe me, that the good professionals will spend 3 to 4 times as many hours in front of their computer in post-production. Self respecting photographers will only shoot in RAW format which in itself is not a pictures format. This RAW format has to be then process and developed with Photoshop or some other software. All kinds of adjustment have to be made to each photographer to bring out that professional look, that look with deep tones, or exquisite black and white rendition. I remove blemishes and wrinkles, swap heads from on photo to another, put in teeth, and hundred other little things that sum up to a great photograph. It would be very disappointing for a bride to look at the wedding day photos and see a pimple on her nose, or random strangers stroll through the park background. And that is one thing that I want folks out there to know, the price you pay for you wedding photography seems high at first but when you add up all the little and not so little details into the scheme, then suddenly you might realize why we have to charge what we do.