Choosing Your Wedding Photographer

And Why It Matters

A day after your wedding, together with your dress, photos are all you have. The champagne is drunk, the food eaten and the guests all gone home.

It's OVER!

So yes, PHOTOS ARE IMPORTANT and deserve more than a 5 minute scan to select your wedding photographer - you'll have these for the rest of your life.

BUT, when you start comparing one wedding photographer against another just what is it that makes a difference? The photos from most wedding photographers look very similar, they've all got great reviews, they all have been to your venue before and so on.

Which often means the only difference is price and that's what your decision is made on.

But hold on.

Why are some able to charge £2000 and some only £500? Surely there must be a difference.

The Devil is in the detail

Think about a Michelin starred restaurant - what enables them to charge such high prices. I mean it's just food isn't it - just as your wedding photos are just photos.

But the food is presented beautifully, the ingredients are top quality, the chef has his own style and methods. All these small details add up to make a big difference.

You're probably not a "photographer" and seeing these small detail differences between photographers can be hard; but they're there and gives the better photographers gallery "something" that the other doesn't have.

Note guests in the background and bouquet to tell the story that this is a wedding - yet doesn't detract from the informal photo of the couple.

There photos will be more "real" and "in the moment".

The composition will be better with the right amount of background to tell the story of the photo yet not so much as to be a distraction.

The available light will be used to give the image more "feeling" and depth; if required they'll know how to use artificial lighting so that it still looks natural without any "deer in the headlights" look.

The equipment used will simply give the best photos in that particular scenario.

And the photographer will have the knowledge and experience to know where to be throughout the whole wedding day to be best placed to get great photos.

Some Images are less about detail and more about Art

For myself, over the 11 years I've photographed 300+ weddings, I've sought to find the best ways to give my clients the best photos I can. This has meant using different cameras from Nikon, Sony, and Fujifilm. It's meant using dozens of different lenses and experimenting with which ones to use for each part of a wedding. It's meant using flash and constant lighting and discovering which to use when and how.

And finally it's meant the biggest investment in a camera ever, a Leica M11 (£7500) as there's some parts of a wedding where nothing else gets photos that are so perfect for weddings.

Leica M10 - for utterly astonishing wedding photos!

I could also discuss the editing and how raw photos are changed and a photographers reliability and more, but hopefully this has given an insight into what to look for when choosing your wedding photographer; it's all in the details.

I'm a full time wedding photographer covering all of Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and North London https://www.creativepixelphotos.com/new-wedding