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On your wedding day, you’ll want to make sure your photographer captures those essential details you worked so hard on. To help him or her out, provide a list of “must-take” wedding photography shots. Check off your essentials below, and add any of your own creative ones. But don’t check off too many – you’ll want the photographer to have some time for creative license.
Most professional wedding photographers get lots of business by brides recommending the person or company who took their wedding pictures – those who don’t get word of mouth referrals are soon out of business. Still, one does want to spend the time to ensure you’re hiring someone who works along with you as well as for you. After spending most of the day at your wedding, the photographer’s work has only just begun, followed by hours upon hours editing your images so you get a wide array of perfect photographs by which to remember your day. It’s not uncommon for it to take 3 to 4 days to edit a wedding. This time is even more valuable when you work out how many weddings or weekends in a year a photographer may work. |
One thing to focus on when you are picking out a photographer is side shadow – this is a dark, well defined shadow on the wall behind the main subject. It’s usually on the right of the image as that’s the way most individuals rotate the camera, but sometimes it’s below the topic if the camera’s held normally. This is due to the photographer keeping the flash on the camera, pointed directly toward the subject, which generally creates flat, boring light as well as the side shadow.
Most wedding photographers get a lot of business by brides recommending the person or company who took their wedding pictures – the ones that don’t get word of mouth referrals are soon out of business. Still, you do want to spend the time to make sure you’re hiring someone who will work with you and for you.
The other option you have is to do the photography yourself. This isn’t as hard as professional photographers would have you believe, there are a number of great resources out there to help you get started.