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• Choose a Style

Before you begin researching photographers, you’ll need to first decide what type of photography style you prefer, as that will help determine which kind of photographer you’ll want shooting your wedding. Do any of the following appeal to you?

Documentary: Instead of a series of posed photos, these are candid or spontaneous pictures.

Portraiture: If you prefer classic portraits, go with a traditional photographer who specializes in portraiture.

Fine Art: Though it’s similar to documentary photography, this style gives the shooter greater artistic license to infuse their particular point of view and style into your photographs.

Edgy-Bold: This style of photography, an offshoot of fine art, is marked by outside-the-box, tilted angles (“Dutch angles”) and unconventional framing.

Tailored Image Photography like many wedding photographers can do a blend of portraiture and documentary-style shots, and will do a mix of black-and-white and colour images, but if there’s a special style you love, make sure the photographer is right for you.

• Do Your back ground checks.

Start your search by reading reviews from recent brides which can be found on the website www.tailoredimagephotography.co.uk Carefully review potential photographers’ websites and blogs to check out photos of other weddings they’ve shot, which will give you an idea of their style. The design of the website may also give you clues about the photographer’s personality and sensibility. Check out their Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages too, if possible. Is the feedback from clients positive? How does the photographer respond?

• Set Up Meetings

It is vital to meet the photographer in person. If you like what you see on their sites—and their fees are in your ballpark range—call to see if they’re available for your wedding date. If the photographer is already booked on your date, you may want to see if they have an associate or can recommend another shooter with a similar style. Set up in-person meetings with three to five potential photographers who are available on your wedding date to look at more of their work and assess whether your personalities mesh. Be prepared to talk about your venue, your wedding style and what you envision for your photos.

• See as many examples as possible.

Don’t base your decision solely on what you see in a photographer’s highlights gallery or album. For good reason, photographers show prospective clients a portfolio of their best pictures, all from different weddings, so you’re seeing the best of the best. The problem with that is you won’t get a well-rounded idea of their work. Ask to see two or three full galleries from real weddings they’ve shot (not someone else at their company) so you can get a better idea of what your complete collection of photos might look like after the wedding.

• Make sure the photographer is right for you!

Ensure the photographer is right for you! Is the photographer excited by your vision when you describe it? When they make suggestions, do they present them in a clear and respectful way, or are they timid? Are their mannerisms off-putting? In order to get the best photos, go with a pro who has a firm grasp of social graces but is bold enough to go out hunting for great images and who, above all, puts you at ease and doesn’t irritate you in any way. Remember: They’ll be shadowing your every move, and the more comfortable both of you are with the photographer, the better the photos will turn out. Likewise, you don’t want the photographer to offend or annoy any guests, but to shoot them in their best light in an unobtrusive way. To get the best photos, your photographer needs to be assertive enough to seek out great moments.

• Confirm Your Photographer.

Make sure the person you meet is the person taking the shots! Some companies have many photographers working for them and the person you meet is not always the photographer! At Tailored Image Photography you will always meet the person who will be there on your special day and will not have some stranger turning up sticking a lens in your face.

• Compare Packages

Make sure you look around and see what best for you. Many Photographer vary in what they charge and it can be a mind field, but look at what you get for your money and decide in your own time. Here the meetings, testimonials and examples of the work play a large part in deciding, but sometimes it can just come down to money.

• Your Rights

Most contracts stipulate that the photographer owns the rights to all photos taken at the wedding, even the ones of you. In other words, the photographer can use them promotionally. This also means that you can’t just post the digital proofs they send you—most photographers have a policy that you can only share watermarked images or images with their credit on them. Also, unless you negotiate otherwise, if you want to print the images yourselves or order an album from another source, you’ll have to buy the rights to the images. At Tailored Image Photography, we do things slightly differently, once the images have been taken we share the rights of the shoot, ensuring that the couple have no need to spend any more money, whilst allowing us to use the images for these purposes.

• After the event!

It usually takes at least a month to get all those photo proofs back from your photographer. Why? Your photographer is shooting enormous raw files far bigger than your typical JPG. Shooting raw files gives your photographer greater ability to correct the photo, but it also takes a longer time to upload, process and edit all those files (in order to correct color levels and so on). It varies, but many photographers say that they spend an additional 40 hours editing images from a single wedding, so it can take up to six to eight weeks (or longer, depending on the photographer and how busy they are) to get proofs back. We like to try and get these images back with the happy newly weds within 3-4 weeks.

A large portion of my work is taking photographs of people or products, but I also love taken images of Landscapes. Whether its the rolling hills of Lancashire or and city sights of Manchester, both can provide stunning images for many to enjoy!

Please check out the Instagram and Facebook pages which show just some of the Landscape images taken by myself, showing a wide range of settings and styles.

Enjoy!

Choosing a professional

Images add interest to a web page, making it not only more pleasing to the eye but also offering an opportunity to draw people in to what you are trying to sell or showcase. Image can break up text so it is easier to read, and they can help to illustrate the point that is being made in a blog post or article.

Sites such as e-commerce, usage of images is even more important because customers are unlikely to buy things they have not seen a picture of. It could be clothing, furniture or electrical gear, the buyer will want to know exactly what it looks like to then make an informed decision about whether or not purchase it. Even in business areas where the appearance of a product is less important such as, computer parts or cleaning products, buyers still feel reassured if they know what they are ordering will look like. It can also help to make a website look professional, genuine and trustworthy.

Options available for sourcing images for your website include:

– buying stock photography.
– using images supplied by PR companies.
– hiring a professional photographer.

Each will cost the company money, but will all to an extent provide what they are looking for.

Using Stock images.

Stock photography images can be bought for relatively low prices on various websites such as www.shutterstock.com and www.istockphoto.com The photographs that are on sale on these sites tend are of reasonable quality but run the risk of the same images being bought and used on many different sites. Additionally, although there is usually a wide range of photographs available on these sites, there is no guarantee that the exact style or subject you are looking for will be in stock.

Using images from PR Companies.

If you run an e-commerce site selling physical items, or any kind of website which sells or promotes products or services, the company you source them from will most likely offer certain stock images of the products, or generic promotional materials for you to use on your site. These can be ideal when starting out, but is not a long term solution.

This is due to potentially having the same kind of images than a competitor, therefore potential customers may see the same images whilst searching for your service! Therefore those who stands out as having its own branding and personality could be the one that attracts their business.

Using a Professional Photographer!

Hiring a professional photographer such as www.Tailoredimagephotography.co.uk to produce the images for your website may initially seem like a luxury rather than a necessity but it actually makes very sound business sense. You can present your products or services in personal manner, giving them personality, and really differentiate your services from other photographers.

Having good images on your website does more than simply make it look nice. It helps to build an overall picture of your brand, it helps to encourage people to share the site on social networks such as www.pinterest.com, and it makes your photographs unique to you. You can commission the exact image you are looking for, rather than using one which has potentially been used by many other companies, which therefore can create a real positive impression on your website.

While using a company like www.tailoredimagephotography.co.uk involves more of an initial outlay for a business owner, the costs will certainly be worth it when sales and brand recognition go up, and your website looks more relevant to your personal business, professional and appealing.

For more information, please either visit the website www.tailoredimagephotography.co.uk or email tailored.imagephotography@hotmail.com.

Why choose Tailored Image Photography over the many other companies who offer the chance to capture the photographs you are looking for within Lancashire?

There are many things people look at while choosing a photographer, whether it’s the cost, the style or even the photographer themselves. Each can play an important role in choosing the right photographer for themselves whether its to capture that special Wedding day or promoting some products.

One of the main things which Tailored Image Photography prides ourselves on, which has been commented on many times by Wedding couples, guests and also within commercial and portrait shoots is the way the photographer is with people!

You can be the best photographer in the world, but if you have no personal interaction skills with people, then it makes the job a whole lot harder and in some cases can affect the end result.

Let me give you some examples….

In many situations, especially in Wedding Photography, the photographer needs to deal with the couple getting married as well as their guests. These guests many of them are busy enjoying themselves and possibly having a drink or two, the last thing they want is to be shouted and ordered around by some crazy photographer showing the stress levels all photographers go through but many hide well! In this situation its vital that you get the group to respond to you and ensuring that the desired images are taken with minimal of fuss.

As you can see from the many testimonials found on the website that we at Tailored Image Photography seemed to of got the right balance between ordering large crowds around while keeping everyone happy. These shots throughout a Wedding play an integral part in remembering the day for the happy newly weds as well as friends and family members, so its very important to ensure that within those images people are shown to be enjoying themselves with natural, relaxed shots. This is achieved not only by the skill and knowledge of a photographer, but also the way in which the photographer has been with the guests.

Another example..

Whilst capturing portfolio images, it vital to make those taking part in the shoot relaxed! Having someone dictating to you where and how to stand can be quite daunting, but having a photographer there to listen and relax the customer will always produce the better shots. Tailored Image Photography again prides itself on creating an atmosphere which enables the customer to relax and enjoy the shoot, rather than being very nervous which could be portrayed within the end product.

This shows again that a photographer may have the skills and knowledge to be able to take a picture, but without the personality end results can be affected!

Throughout the period of time Tailored Image Photography has been in operation we have found that our customer service and interaction with the customers one of our very many strong points. We have found that whether the customers are from Weddings, commercial shoots or portrait shoots, we are constantly getting the same feedback!

If you would like to read these feedback, please go to the Testimonial part to the website where you will find a wide range of comments from different types of jobs. Please feel free to leave any comments as well!!

Another landscape image! Be sure to check out Instagram for more examples of my work!

Tailored Image Photography also enjoys capturing the great outdoors! For examples of these please visit our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages!