Why It Always Pays to Hire the Professionals for Your Big Day

Despite the initial costs, hiring a wedding photographer is a valuable life-long investment. The end result is an outstanding, carefully crafted wedding album that you and your partner will be able to cherish for the rest of your lives. Here, we explore how professional wedding photographers achieve such rewarding results.

Wedding photographers know all the 'tried-and-tested' techniques

Anyone starting a career, whether it's a photographer, a professional athlete, a businessperson or a teacher, needs to take risks and make mistakes in order to learn how not to repeat them. With regards to wedding photography, photographers must experiment with many different styles and settings to learn how to use the right techniques and deliver flawless photos.

Correct lighting is one of the most important factors to get right in all forms of photography. Inside a church, for example, photographers need to carefully select the right settings on their cameras to ensure that their photos are consistent with regards to colour and sharpness. That is why most people with little experience of photography or who use cheap compact cameras struggle to capture good photos in dark environments or at night, unless they use a flash.

Have your photos processed to perfection

The vast majority of professional photographers use specialist software like Adobe Photoshop, which enables them to customise their photos and alter aspects such as colour, sharpness, contrast, temperature or clone out any obvious intrusions such as an aeroplane in the background sky or a piece of litter on the grass. Before the days of digital technology, photographers could not make any further edits to a picture once it had been processed, which is why the standards and expectations for wedding shoots are so much higher than they were in the past.

Photographers can improvise and make the most out of any situation

Everyone wants a perfect wedding, although sometimes external factors such as the weather, accidents or other unexpected events can make it difficult to achieve the photos that you want. Of course, there is no such thing as a perfect wedding and unexpected situations will always occur. Rain, for example, can look particularly quintessential and even a little romantic when it is photographed at a traditional English church. Indeed, in this situation, it is the people that become the focal point of the picture, rather than the scenery surrounding them, which in effect gives the photo more resonance and perspective than a wedding photo shot on a sunny day or in an exotic location.

A 'spontaneous' wedding could be more romantic than you think

Likewise, a winter wedding, although not necessarily a common choice for most couples, can be a particularly romantic time of the year to capture photos when there is frost or snow outside. Many wedding photographers may also be willing to offer discounts during 'out-of-seasons' periods, when their work flow may be much lower. The bareness of a winter setting and the lack of colour can also evoke a more striking contrast and will draw more attention to the bride and groom in the photos.

Photos must accurately portray your wedding day

Your wedding photos should accurately represent the day, rather than portray it as everything went smoothly and to perfection. Sometimes it is the most spontaneous and unpredictable situations that can create the most memorable photos. After all, that is what distinguishes your wedding from any other, because the events surrounding the event are personal to you.

AUTHOR BYLINE
Kerry Wright is a keen photography blogger who enjoys sharing her expertise online to help people. When she's not frantically typing away on the bloggosphere, Kerry is a wedding filmmaker for Jasmine Jade , the leading wedding photographers in Essex and beyond.