We’ve all heard about someone getting married on a budget who has a friend who has a camera…the thing is, there’s a bit more to successful wedding photography than just being able to hold a camera and press a button.
Even the most basic, traditional wedding photos take some practice to get right. Have you ever tried to get 20 or more people all to look in the same direction, at the same time, so you can take their picture, without any of them blinking or pulling a funny face, when all they really want to do is chat to people they haven’t seen in months or years? I bet it doesn’t sound quite so simple when I put it like that! Wedding photography is just as much about people management as it is about taking a good picture. And I haven’t even touched on making sure that picture is in focus!
Obviously, if you’re choosing a wedding photographer in Leicestershire, we hope that you will come and talk to us at Rebecca Dawe Photography! But whether you do or not, here are some tips for what to look out for.
It is every wedding photographer’s worst nightmare – you take some fantastic photos for the happy couple and they get stolen before you can transform them into the wedding album and give them to the newlyweds. In Pennsylvania, U.S.A, one couple lost their wedding pictures when their wedding photographer had his car broken into. His laptop, external drives, photography equipment and debit card were all stolen even though the photographer was only away from his car for a few minutes.
While the equipment will all have been insured, it’s those pictures stored on the memory card that are really important, to both the newly married couple and their photographer. Equipment can be replaced; those photographs can’t be.