Why You Should Avoid Cheap Wedding Photographers - And Why You Should Be Happy to Pay More

p>Finding a Wedding Photographer can be a hardNowadays wedding photographers (with the advent
task. Many people only look for cheap weddingof digital photography) shoot a very large number of
photographers; off course they end up saving someimages, often touching the 2000 mark and these
money, but this more often than not comes at aimages require some substantial work. They
high price. Of course nobody will know what this higheventually need to be digitally edited, fixed, chosen,
price was until at least a month after the wedding.printed, sorted, mounted... it's an awful lot of work!
Beware of minimal wedding quotations... more oftenGetting the picture? If you divide the total cost of
than not they are at the base of a photographythe photographer by 70 hours, you will see what the
disaster. If a wedding photographer offers hisPhotography Company (NOT the Photographer) is
services for say 250 or 300 Dollars, giving you threeactually getting. To that amount you have to take
hours of photographic coverage, he or she is veryaway all of the expenses (including the office rent,
likely to have to turn down a bigger booking for thepersonnel expenses and bills) and you will easily see
same day later on. An amateur will probably not havethat there will be not much left. At this point there
another bigger booking ahead, so there is nothing tocould be THREE possibilities:
lose. A professional wedding photographer will takeSomeone that offers you very low wedding
much more than 250 or 300 pounds for a day's workquotations is very unlikely to be a professional
(I'll tell you why later), so if he or she will really takephotographer because he or she:
so little for a day's work (and a lot more work after1) Will NOT mind to work nearly for free (hobbyist)
your wedding, as you will read later), chances are2) Will NOT work for 70 hours on your wedding
that he or she is not a professional photographer but(probably has another job)
just an amateur. Good luck to you!3) IS in desperate need of building a portfolio to gain
Most people looking for cheap weddingwork (zero experience)
photographers have never hired a weddingAll three cases are screaming an eventual
photographer before, so they don't really know howDISASTER...
to look for one. It's a zoo out there and it's reallySo, as you can see, there are a lot of things to
hard to find good and true information. The internetconsider when choosing a wedding photographer and
doesn't really help either, because virtually all weddingby now, you should understand why wedding
websites offer paid information that can't obviouslyphotographers are expensive and why a cheap one
be negative, as everyone tends to safeguard theircannot possibly be a pro. If you do want to save
advertisers. It is not easy, but you should try to findmoney and are willing to take a few risks, then I
a website that has no advertising interests and thatwould advice you to hire a student photographer.
will tell you how a photographer really is. The bestAlways make sure to get some sort of references;
place for this purpose is a customer reviews website,a teacher reference is considered to be the best
but again, it's very hard to find them. By reading aone.
wedding photographer review you can see whatIn the early days photographers heavily relied on
other people had to say about their experiences.photo labs. Nowadays everything is done digitally, so
Someone who is not very confident in his/herthe lab is history. The downside of this is that the
performance (for example a weekend photographer,photographer has a workload that is much bigger
a student or a freshly graduate), will still advertise allthan before. The reason why so many hours are
over the place, this is what makes the choice reallyneeded is because digitally editing images takes a
hard: internet is reachable by virtually anyone,very long time. An image must first be opened in
anywhere on the planet. It's not like years ago, whenPhotoshop (or similar photo editing program), it must
you could only purchase expensive adverts on realbe color calibrated, brightness, contrast, hue, white
magazines. Internet is free! So you don't really knowbalance... there are so many adjustments to do and
who is a pro and who is a student out there.these are incredibly time consuming. Without creating
Talking about Canada, Vancouver is statistically theany special effect, a single photographs will keep a
most expensive city in Canada, but a Vancouverphotographer busy for approximately 6 minutes. Now
Wedding Photographer is not necessarily morewhen you multiply the average 6-7 minutes by the
expensive than other wedding photographers inimages you are getting, you can easily imagine what
Canada. Inexpensive wedding Photographers can bethe photographer has been though. Then if you are
found in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto Ontario, as wellgetting some images with special effect, that can
as in Vancouver. The real question is: do you want atake hours for each photograph... 30 minutes is a
cheap wedding photographer? A wedding involves ashort time for these modifications.
lot of "invisible" work that, like it or not, it has to beI have heard many times people complaining about
paid for. In my experience with weddings, thehow much a wedding photographer makes: "1000
average photography job will keep a person busy forDollars for just one day of work!" But it's not... it's
about 70 hours all included. Yes, that's right. Beginning1000 dollars for about 70 hours of work... that is two
from meeting the bride and groom, to the delivery ofweeks and it's not much at all when you think of all
the wedding album, wedding box or any other kindthe bills and tax they have to pay to keep their
of finished work, a wedding is very time consumingbusiness running.
for a photographer.I hope this article helped you understand why
The days in which wedding photographers only shotphotographers charge so much money for "one day's
100 images during the whole day are long gone.work".