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Choosing a Wedding Photographer in Lancashire

• 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.