Most successful and experienced wedding photographers will have a studio that they work from and and most amateur photographers wont. This is one of the ways you can identify a “weekend warrior” as most full time photographers like to call them.
If you ring a photographer and he wants to call at your house or the venue that you intend to have your wedding to show you his portfolio then beware, he might be an amateur trying to pass themselves off as a professional. Worryingly, many many, people think that turning up at a Wedding is just about walking around the crowd, taking SNAPS then passing a disc of all the images to the couple for a cheap fee with no questions asked. What the Bride and Groom are left with, is a set of pictures that are badly composed, badly exposed leaving the Bride and Groom disapointed with the results. I’m sure that you may know someone who’s had a photographer at their wedding like this.
Customer Lounge and Projection Area
Most people have a budget and this should be stuck to like glue but some couples that I know that have a photographer Ive just mentioned, have spent £1000s on flowers and only a couple of hundred pounds on the photographer aaarrggghhh! Where is the sense in that? The flowers are dead the day after and you have a lifetime to look at the inferior pictures the cheap photographer took!!
I know not all amateurs think they are bad photographers but it my opinion they are even worst. So if you are an amateur and you shoot wedding as a “hobby” for a few quid on a Saturday, do the couple, me and everyone else a favour, stop what your doing and get some training with a qualified wedding photographer.
I’ll get off my soap box now.
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