5 Website Tips For Impressing Potential Couples
I get a lot of emails from photographers wondering what is “wrong” with their business: business is down it’s harder to book and keep weddings people are spending less potential…
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Featured Member: Al Overdrive
What kind of photography do you do? The majority of my work is editorial - the main subject's fit under style and entertainment. Story behind this photo: This is one…
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What kind of photography do you do? I am mostly specialized in on-location portraiture as well as wedding and event photography. For my own pleasure I love to do travel…
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What kind of photography do you do? I photograph weddings and portraits in Hong Kong. I was born and raised in New York but moved to Asia in 2006. Story…
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What kind of photography do you do? Travel photography and wedding photography. Story behind this image: This was taken at the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, it was early in the…
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What kind of photography do you do? I'm known as one of the top wedding photographers in Tulsa. On my website, I use Photocrati galleries to showcase my new emphasis…
Wedding album design
This may sound strange, but designing a wedding album can be more stressful than actually taking the pictures. When you’re shooting a wedding, you try all sorts of different techniques to get the shot. That way you have a lot of options available to you later when designing the album. However, when designing the album, you don’t have the luxury of “covering your bases,” so to speak. You have to take 700 images and eliminate down to 60-100. There are a lot of criteria to meet:
- Do these images tell the story of the day?
- Do you have all the formal and family shots that the client wants?
- Does this client like big pictures or lots of small ones?
- What’s more important to the client: beautiful formal pictures or candid fun ones?
Who’s in charge?
If you’re new to the wedding game you’ll soon discover that there is someone in charge at every wedding. You may think you know who that person is, they signed a contract, they paid you money, they are picking out the products… but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are in charge. No, the person that you’re working for is, to quote the movie “Swingers” the guy, behind the guy, behind the guy. 99% of the time it’s the mother of the bride. (more…)