Photographers for Your Wedding Day in Wych-Cross
Taking photographs may seem easy, but choosing a professional photographer in Wych-Cross for your wedding can appear difficult. Why?
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If you don’t think it’s worth investing in a professional photographer for your wedding day, perhaps you haven’t really considered the importance of your wedding day photographs.
The memories of your wedding can begin to fade over time. When you hire a specialist for wedding photography, you are investing in memories, memories that will last a lifetime.
Weddings are some of the most special events of our lives. Finding a professional photographer with the skills to capture every small detail is important.
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Wedding Photography and Why It Is so Important?
When you look at your list of priorities for your wedding in Wych-Cross, the wedding photographer may not necessarily be up there at the top.
However, it’s well worth bumping up your wedding photos so they are near the top of your list. You need to set a budget for it and get a professional booked well in advance. It is important to have a talented wedding photographer who has the skills and experience to perfectly capture all the precious moments of your wedding day. Your wedding photo book will be revisited countless times over the years with your friends, your children and even perhaps your future grandchildren.
The wedding photographs will have the power to take you back to your special day and bring back those amazing feelings again and again down the years. After your wedding day, you’re unlikely to be wearing your dress and shoes again, the flowers will be cleared away and all the cake will be eaten. but you will have your wedding photographs forever and you will be looking over them and sharing them for years to come, so do ensure that you place enough importance on having them done properly!
Why engage a wedding photographer for your big day?
If your wedding day is just around the corner, then you have probably planned most of what you need to plan. You’ve booked your caterer, cake and the venue. Your wedding dress is getting its final alterations, your flowers are all on order and the decorations and table centrepieces are all in hand.
The wedding photographs are next on the list. Perhaps you’re considering asking your nephew to do it since he’s an amateur photographer.
It wouldn’t cost you anything and you can save yourself some money to budget for other things. This is a route that has been tried by many, but in truth has worked for very few.
Hiring a professional wedding photographer is the route you should take
It’s a much better idea to have a professional photographer get it right, than save some money and have an amateur photographer miss those important big and little details! Remember, some special moments happen only once in a lifetime, yet the photos will stay with you forever.
Key benefits of hiring wedding photography professionals
Hiring a professional wedding photographer means you will be left with pictures of the best quality, created using the best skills and equipment available.
The professional wedding photographer you hire in Wych-Cross will be able to capture fantastic images with their skill, state-of-the-art cameras and equipment and edited to a superb standard using the latest software.
The equipment such as cameras, are just a part of what it takes to capture great wedding photographs. The quality of the cameras on smartphones these days makes it very tempting to turn to them for wedding photography. This might be a huge mistake. Everyone desires photographs that are skillfully composed and expertly captured for their wedding day. We’ll take a more in depth look now at what you get when you hire a professional wedding photographer in Wych-Cross, which adds that extra value and makes it worth your while.
Taking photographs may seem easy and the access to digital photography equipment today is vast. However, a competent professional photographer will be looking for every artistic opportunity, gauging the light, anticipating and he/she will always be in the right place at the right time. The images produced will be of a much higher standard than anything obtained by the guests or friends you may have asked – to do you a favour.
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The Role of the Photographer
One other very good reason to hire a professional wedding photographer in Wych-Cross, instead of using a relative, is that they’re less likely to become distracted. A relative will likely expect to enjoy the day and become part of it, whereas a professional photographer will know that their role is very clearly defined.
A photographer wonít be off-duty, drinking alcohol or eating cake when they should be capturing an important shot. Every moment they’re there, their focus will be on unobtrusively capturing the best possible images that they can of the event.
Wedding guests are also far more likely to respond to a professional, paid wedding photographer than they would be to a relative barking orders. Photoshoots taken by a relative tend to be less organised and taken less seriously than those arranged by professionals.
The Photographic Style
If you have in mind a particular photographic style, then you should hire a professional that is an expert in that area or style. Not many amateurs are familiar with the differences between photojournalistic, fine art, traditional or contemporary styles.
Can they deliver what you want the way you want it? Often, this is not the case. Donít rush into a decision; think about the style you want and get a photographer that can match it. Once you have a style in mind, hire a photographer that can picture what it is you want.
Communication and Reliability
There are numerous other factors that contribute to a professional photographer being a better choice than an amateur photographer or enthusiast. Any wedding day has tough moments to overcome, whether it is getting a large group together while meeting a deadline with a photoshoot in session and a professional brings a mass of experience to help deal with this.
A professional wedding photographer will get people where they need to be for each photo and plan all the photo sessions to ensure no one gets missed out, or no opportunity is missed. They have the experience to do so using body language, cues and verbally, without obstructing your guests, or spoiling the celebration of your big day in Wych-Cross. Maintaining a balance between holding a distance as a photographer but getting involved to encourage people is a very difficult balance to strike and very few amateurs have the experience to do it.
If You Want More, Use Professional Wedding Photographers
You spend more time with your wedding photographer than anyone else on your wedding day. The wedding photographer will take the initial shots during the day as you get ready and even travel to the church and will stay with you throughout the day and maybe until you leave for home or honeymoon.
Your photographer remains constantly around you, having been hired to capture every memory and every moment without being noticed. If a photographer knows what theyíre doing, they wonít be noticed throughout the day. The photographer will notice if a picture is being spoiled by a lipstick stain on a collar, or a wonky handkerchief.
Their detailed focus will help you fix any little issues and get better photos. Your wedding planner will not be your shadow all day, but your photographer will. The experience of the photographer will help to ensure that the wedding party know where they are going and when and help to alleviate any anxiety or emotions as they arise.
A Patient Temperament
As a wedding couple, you should engage the services of a wedding photographer that helps you feel comfortable. This is a person you are going to be around a great deal on one of the most special days of your life. The person you have decided on needs to be the right one.
The professional photographer you choose should have an excellent skill set; great technically, the patience of a saint, the persuasive skills of a sales person and the empathetic and emotional skills of a counsellor. They need to go with the flow and be able to make your personality shine brightly on your special day in Wych-Cross. Even if things don’t go exactly to plan, the wedding photographer will remain in control, calm and measured, as a reassuring presence. A good wedding photographer will remain professional at all times and will be flexible, flowing and adapting to changing circumstances.
What to Expect When You Hire a Wedding Photographer?
The wedding day is often the first time that the couple has ever had a professional photographer taking shots of them. Those that are camera shy, or don’t particularly like how they look in photos, can feel anxious and worried about having a camera pointing at them all day.
With time invested in choosing the right wedding photographer that will gel with you, you can feel comfortable that certain things will happen along the way.
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A Professional Attitude and Good Time Keeping
You can be reassured that the photographer will be professional by researching their reputation, their previous work and their passion for what they do. Your photographer should be friendly, polite, punctual and appropriately dressed for the event. Your photographer should arrive early on the day, to scout the location having probably visited relevant locations several times already.
The Day Before the Wedding - the Rehearsal
In many cases, church wedding ceremonies have a rehearsal during the week before the wedding. Your photographer may want to attend this to check the location and to have a brief discussion with the Vicar about where to stand during the service. The registrar will normally be consulted on the day of the wedding with civil ceremonies, in order for the wedding photographer to get the information they need.
Wedding Day (The big day)
Your wedding photographer will tend to arrive to take photos of the bridal presentations, the timings will have been agreed. He will be there for the rest of the day but will not interrupt the flow in any way. The goal at Jeff Woodall photography is to ensure that every precious moment is captured, but to remain unobtrusive and in the background until such a time as you have questions to answer, or you need some help. The goal at Jeff Woodall photography is to ensure that every precious moment is captured, but to remain unobtrusive and in the background until such a time as you have questions to answer, or you need some help.
Sometime after the first dance, your wedding photographer will have a conversation with you to find out whether there are any more pictures that you would like taken. The backup process will begin once your photographer has completed their work. Jeff Woodall photography will keep all photos backed up on a storage device until they have been through the editing suite process and are delivered to your satisfaction. We understand just how precious your photographs are to you.
Wedding Photo Editing
The editing of wedding photographs takes place in the days after the wedding is a crucial part of the wedding photography process. To tell the story of the wedding day the pictures need to capture the moments and so the first stage is going through all the photos and picking the best ones. The selected photographs go through a light touch approach that enhances them subtly.
Jeff Woodall photography provide clients with images that are high resolution. Images are cropped and have their colours balanced where necessary, but is limited to minor adjustments. To achieve other effects, subtle style filters may be applied to some of your wedding images and some may be converted to monochrome.
The pictures are then prepared and uploaded for viewing, by anyone you want to give access in an online password protected Gallery. They are also provided to you on a presentation USB stick. Instructions on how to access the gallery which you can share with friends and family will be sent to you along with a USB stick containing high resolution images that you can easily share online.
Helping clients down the line
Jeff Woodall photography will always be on hand, accessible to talk about wedding photo album options and the design of wedding photo books if you so require them. If you have already decided on a digital photo book album and know the style choices you want to go for, it’ll probably still take you a little while after the wedding to decide on which images to include.
You’ll probably be asked to pick your favorite 80 photographs that depict the story of your day and you can ask your photographer any questions to guide you on this. Your photographer then goes about the task of designing the album.
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What is normally included in packages for wedding photography
Here is a summary of what you will typically find in a wedding photography package. Some of the items below are highly important, whereas others you may not even need to talk about. The number of wedding events you want photos from.
You need to decide whether you want the photographer at your engagement party and bridal shower, whether the photographer stays for the after-party and of course what time he arrives at the wedding ceremony. Some of the events the photographer will almost certainly be at, include the wedding ceremony and the after party, but you need to decide whether he attends the bridal shower, the engagement party and how long he stays on during the after party. The events you want to be captured will be communicated.
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Number of hours for the shoot in Wych-Cross
Photographers will normally price up based on the likely time involved. Each wedding is individual, with exact timings that differ and ad hoc things that happened during the day and so we work a little differently on wedding packages in order to remain flexible.
Photographers often [I used to] have different packages i.e. Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, etc. This way of doing things can get over complicated and even more so when additional options and extras are added to the mix. With me you get a full day’s coverage for a set price. Iím yours for the day and won’t mind doing the odd extra hour and won’t be clock-watching. We want pricing to be clear and transparent and don’t want to have to bill you for extra hours after the event, because things ran on and your Silver package didn’t cover it. For wedding ceremonies that are a long way away and need significant travel or even flights, there would be some negotiation required over accommodation, fuel, flights, food and refreshments.
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What are the differences between all these different styles?
Fine Art Photography
Similar to photojournalistic photography, fine art photographers rarely take traditional shots. Rather, their pictures are captured through an artistic appreciation of events, elements and people, accented with the use of stunning lighting. Fine Art photographers in Wych-Cross have a flair for the dramatic and always looking for the artistic side when composing and staging their photos, often using different filters, including black and white.
Vintage Style Photography
Vintage photo filters have become quite popular over the last decade and has resulted in more demand for this style of photography. The market for couples who want vintage style weddings and photography has become quite large. Something about old, timeless photographs appeals to people, maybe it’s the feeling of nostalgia which this style of photography evokes. Colour filters together with other post processing methods have the capacity to translate rather plain images into artistic pieces and photographers in Wych-Cross who have a keen eye in this area, can work wonders with wedding photographs.
Traditional or Classical
In traditional or classical photography, many shots are treated as a posed portraits, sometimes including shots you may think of as candid. With traditional or classical wedding photography, it’s unlikely that you’ll get lots of action and movement in photos, but the images shouldnít feel unnaturally forced either. Traditional photographers are likely to want to record of the formalities of the wedding ceremony and to portray the dignity and meaning of the ceremony, with subtle lighting.
Photojournalistic or Reportage
This style involves the recording of events as opposed to the staging of them. As always, the necessary formal shots will be taken, as well as a number of spontaneous happy shots group shots during the day. The photo journalistic photographer is all about immortalizing the spontaneous reactions and emotions of the day as they happen, rather than orchestrating and staging their images.
Black and White (Monochrome)
This style is excellent for timeless, classical, emotion-packed photographs. Black-and-white photos are appreciated by many for their ability to enhance the mood and atmosphere of the scene being depicted. Everyone has a different preference. Monochrome images may not appeal so much to some people, but it can produce more compelling photos as it sometimes helps the context and the subject to shine through. The extra contrast of black and monochrome images can really evoke a certain atmosphere that colour sometimes simply cannot.
Colour Popped and HDR Techniques
When shooting pictures, this photography technique requires attention to detail and the ability to consider various different elements and this complexity continues into the editing stage. The photographer chooses the appropriate moment with which to use these techniques, finally skillfully uses the right processing software to produce quality images with colours that pop and emphasises particular areas of a scene.
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