These days, the digital camera puts a lot of photographic power in the hands of even the ordinary wedding guest. In fact, many mobile phones can now take pictures that are better quality than those taken by a lot of cameras! That’s why some people think that traditional wedding photography is a dying art and that a luxury wedding is expensive enough without paying a professional to do something that the guests and wedding party can do for themselves.
But actually, there’s a lot more to wedding photography that might first appear, and the wedding photographer still has a very important role to play in making any luxury wedding into a magical occasion. A professional wedding photographer will retouch parts of the pictures, sharpen them, edit them, filter them, crop them and do dozens of other things that are beyond the latest high-tech camera phones. You’ll be amazed at how different a professional’s pictures are from the ones taken by your friends and family.
The other advantage of getting a professional photographer to take the pictures at your luxury wedding is that you get to call the shots and a good photographer will be willing take exactly the pictures you want! Remembering everything you want photographed can be tricky, so here’s a checklist of five things – some obvious, some not – to ask your photographer.
- What’s your style? Do you shoot formal, traditionally-posed compositions, or creative, spontaneous and candid photos?
- Colour, or black and white? And can you make a black and white and colour version of each picture?
- Have you done a lot of other luxury weddings? Were they like this, or is this your first time handling the photos for this sort of occasion?
- Do you develop your own film? And can be buy the negatives from you?
- What input can we have? Can we decide the direction of shots, and can we give you a list of shots we want for you to work from?
The photographs taken at a wedding will be part of the memories that will last a lifetime, so it’s well worth paying for a professional to do a wonderful job – although of course if you’re the lucky winner of a free luxury wedding from this website, you won’t have to worry about that!