We are gearing up for the new season here at the studio. Wrapping up the new sample albums, making sure that we have our act together and thinking of maybe, doing a site redesign. Maybe taking away the portfolio section and replacing it with a more extensive recent weddings section.

I firmly believe that you need to see at least one full wedding from the photographer you plan on hiring. It is nice to have a portfolio section on a site, the photographer’s favourites or greatest hits or something that indicates what the photographer likes. Where his vision lies. At the end of the day however anyone can get lucky once or twice at a wedding. Shoot more than 15 weddings and you can have a portfolio of amazing images. The question which is left out of most of the how-to-choose-your-wedding-photographer articles is … is he or she consistant? Does your photographer shoot consistantly well over the entire day or do they get one or two amazing shots and the rest are in a different league. It is six to ten hours worth of shooting, you need someone who can shoot consistantly over an entire day.

It is also one thing to sell yourself as a wedding photojournalist, but do you shoot hundreds of posed images and snapshots over a single event. Is your photographer able to be creative and technically proficient the whole time? Beware of someone who only has posed images in their portfolio, unless of course that’s what you want, there is more to a wedding than the posed moments. You need to be comfortable that the photographer can deliver all day and not just enough for website samples.

This entry was posted Friday, August 18th, 2006 at 12:10 pm and is filed under Info, Opinion.