5 Things to Ask Your Wedding Photographer Before You Book
Wedding Venue: Maple Grove Estate
5 Important Things to Ask Your Wedding Photographer BEFORE You Book
Finding the perfect photographer to capture such a special day can be daunting. There are so many different styles, budgets, and personalities to choose from when searching for a wedding photographer. Once you have narrowed it down and considering booking make sure you ask these important questions first!
Wedding Venue: Howe Farms
Wedding Venue: The Gulf (Destin ,Florida)
01. Can I See a Full Wedding Gallery?
By asking to see a full wedding gallery you can get a better idea of what to expect throughout a whole wedding day. You will also have a visual of what that photographer’s deliver process looks like as well.
Wedding Venue: Howe Farms
02. How Long Have You Been Photographing Weddings/How Many Weddings Have You Photographed?
It’s important to get an idea of how experienced a photographer is with shooting weddings. Wedding photography is VERY different than shooing a family, engagement, or even an elopement. There is a lot of planning, pressure, fast changes with camera settings, staying on track with the timeline, gear, and more that a photographer will need to have experience with so you can have full trust that every moment will be captured perfectly.
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170+ Weddings Photographed and Counting
7 Years of Experience in Photographing Weddings
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Wedding Venue: Maple Grove Estate
Wedding Venue: The Trillium Venue
03. What is Your Process on Backing up Photos?
This is the MOST important one to ask! Choosing a photographer who has a solid process on backing up your wedding photos is SO important. Technology can fail without warning and having multiple backups and a cloud system is key to help keep your photos as safe as possible until they are fully edited and sent your inbox. After a wedding day, I download the photos on to a working drive, stationary drive, and they begin uploading to my cloud system. I also keep all the photos on the original SD cards until a week after I finish and send the full wedding gallery. So I will have 4 copies of the full wedding day on different sources until the fully wedding gallery is finished.
Wedding Venue: The Press Room
04. What is Your Plan For if You are Unable to Make it on Wedding Day?
Life happens so It’s important for your photographer to have a plan just incase something unforeseen happens on wedding day. My plan is to find and hire another professional photographer to show up to photograph on wedding day. Then that photographer will give all the photos to me to edit! So even though I cannot be there, you will still have the same editing style.
05. Does your cameras have dual card slots and do you use them on wedding day? Do you have backup gear?
Having a camera that has dual card slots helps prevent card malfunction on wedding day. Using two SD cards in the dual card slots ensures that if one card fails it’s still writing to the second card. It is also important for your photographer to have back up gear. At least shooting with two cameras at all times just incase one camera decides to malfunction.