So, you’ve decided to dive into the world of wedding photography? Welcome to a rollercoaster of emotions, caffeine overloads, and the occasional bridezilla (or groomzilla, let’s be fair). Having photographed over a hundred weddings, I can tell you this: I’m still no expert. But I’ve learned a thing or two – or twelve – that I wish I could go back and tell my eager, naive, inexperienced self. So, without further ado, here are the lessons that took me a hundred weddings to learn, which you can now absorb in the next few minutes. Lucky you 🙂
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What budget for camera gear do you need to become a wedding photographer and what should you buy starting out?
I see a lot of posts saying they want to be a wedding photographer but they have a small budget, then replies from the pros saying how you need to spend several thousand on new gear. Let’s look at how a smaller budget will affect you and what limitations you’ll need to overcome.
Continue readingA March Wedding at Cockington Court, Torquay. A tale of why a wedding photographer is always adapting during the day…
No matter how planned a wedding is, no matter how meticulous you are, things can change. As a wedding photographer, you have to be able to adapt quickly to those changes and sometimes rejig an entirely new timeline, on the fly, to work those changes in. This was a great example of adapting to requests and changes.
Continue readingTales of woe and how to make sure your wedding photographer doesn’t lose your wedding photos before delivering them
What I find strange is that I’ve never been asked how am I protecting the photos before I deliver them. On the private wedding photographer groups that I’m a member of, I often see posts from wedding photographers who are desperate for help because they’ve lost some or all the photos before they had delivered them. Today, I want to give you some tips and talk about this.
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