How do you find the right wedding photographer? (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 22 points 2 months ago

By not being cheap about it. The professionals have a portfolio, recommendations and a price.

If some guy tells you they have a Nikon D3100 and they can do it for 50$, run away.

[-] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

We were thinking about a $3000 budget, does that sound decent?

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We had a small wedding with just the bride and groom. We spend $1700 CAD ($1,275 USD) for ours and that included the photographer and his assistant. The agreed time was only 60 minutes. However our wonderful photographer spent probably 2 hours with us. He kept taking us other places at the venue for more pictures on his own. He took amazing pictures!

If you have a larger wedding party, or are planning on having travel time necessary between pictures, your $3000 sounds reasonable to me. There is likely a large regional pricing variation though.

[-] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

i think we're still at about 80-90 people, kinda hard to visualize how big its gonna be tbh

[-] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

Sorry, I have no idea. I'm on a different continent and have no idea about the rates over there.

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

My ex from like $10 years ago was charging that amount at the time. You want someone with a book of clients and references you can call up.

She was spending a lot of time in reviewing the 15+ photos taken for every “shot” and doing a lot of work in Lightroom. Then working within the printing service website.

There’s also the time spent driving to/from the event, working with the planner, lots of waiting around, convincing guests to get into the right spot, etc

By the time it was all done it’s close to minimum wage work for something that takes a lot of skill.

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