Wedding photography as a customer

zetec452

zetec452

zetec452

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Hey,

I'm getting married next June in the UK and need a weeding photographer.

As budding photographers (I saw your thread RaymondLin :p) could you give me some tips for finding a decent wedding photographer? What's the average cost for one? Can I get all the photo's after in a digital format to reprint when I fancy? Any tips to sus out the good from the bad?

Thanks,

Jon
 
I suggest you just drop Raymond a message in trust and discuss.

I paid £1100 for my wedding photo's and although good, was nothing compared to Raymond style, quality and originality.

I really do love his wedding stuff and if I was getting married again I'd be booking him without question.
 
Maybe try posting up in an international photography forum seeing as you are in canada.

i.e. www.photography-on-the.net has a wedding section. You might find someone local, and can look through their work posted on the forum/their portfolio website without any pressure to hire them.
 
Thanks guys.

I'm getting married in Canada then heading over to the UK for a blessing as its a PITA to get a marriage license if your not a UK resident.

Stupot_ thanks for the link.
 
I travel :p

Serious answer.

Ask to see a body of work from his latest work from last year. And a set of photos from a single wedding, start to finish. It is not that hard to get a single photo from a wedding, shoot 40 a year and then he shows you 50 pics from that year in the meeting and they are the best from his last year. That doesn't guarantee you great pics in your own wedding. However, if you get to see a complete set from 1 wedding, or multiple sets, and they show a consistency in all of them, especially change of venues, weather even, it shows the ability of the photographer a lot more in his imagination, and adaptation to the environment.

As for giving you a disc, each photographer is different, some do, some don't. I suggest you put quality of photos first, and getting the disc second. Some offer you an option to purchase a disc as an extra. That might be worth doing, and if the photographer is worth his salt he would have a copy on back up in his HD for quite sometime, ask him if you can purchase it a couple of months post wedding if you are short of cash.
 
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