There is a school of thought that says anyone with a camera can take photos. Why should you pay good money to hire someone to do it for you, when you can just whip out your iPhone or fancy digital camera and snap away? When it comes to wedding photography there is even a school of thought that says you just get all your guests to take photos and upload them to a site for everyone to see. Well that's great, if you have some guests who are pretty skilled with a camera and who are prepared to spend your wedding looking through the lens, instead of enjoying the occasion.
On the whole though, you are much better off putting yourselves in the hands of a professional wedding photographer, so that you end up with a gorgeous set of photos that do justice to your special day.
Here are a few reasons why:
A professional wedding photographer isn't just a guy with a really good camera. He or she has a great eye for the perfect shot, can catch a special moment as it happens, can use the natural light to turn the scene into something really beautiful. Years of experience have gone into perfecting his technique. When you look through the wedding album there is a huge difference between shots taken by a pro and those snapped by even the most skilled amateur.
A professional wedding photographer knows exactly how to photograph the bride at her very best. He can choose angles and lights that bring out the best in her. Sometimes the 'natural' photographs produced by happy-snapping guests can be really unflattering, enough to lower the spirits after the wedding day - Did I really look like that?
A professional wedding photographer takes a huge number of photos to catch every single moment. Many of them will be discarded, but among them will be plenty of wonderful shots capturing every moment of the day. There won't be a huge gap in the record of your wedding day, just because all the guests had their hands full of champagne and forgot to take any pictures.
A professional photographer isn't just skilled at taking the photos. These days he also has to be good at the digital processing of the photos after the event. You won't just get the unedited images. You'll get photos that have been colour adjusted, cropped and worked on until they are just right, leaving you nothing more to do than put the prints in your album or order a photo book. If you rely on photos provided by family and friends there will be a huge amount of work to do sorting them, cropping them and getting them ready to make up a wedding album. It may even be that you never get around to it and your wedding photo album never materialises.
So all in all, professional wedding photographers remain essential to the happy memories of your wedding day. You can still use the photos taken by guests to make up an informal album if like, in fact this is a fun thing to do if you have time, but book a professional too, so that you have a really beautiful wedding photography record and a stunning wedding album that you'll be proud to show for the rest of your life.
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