Wedding Photography Styles and the newly engaged couple When couples start looking for wedding photographers (and to an extent all wedding vendors) they are overwhelmed by choices. In the case of choosing a photographer one of the most important things to use in the narrowing down process is “photographic styles”. The problem is...
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For the most part on your wedding day you don’t have to worry too much about the pictures, if you’ve hired a professional wedding photographer they they’ll do their job and you’ll have wonderful images. But for one important picture there’s one simple thing you as a couple can do to help your photographer...
When it comes to the formal photos this is an area that can suck time (and sometimes the life) out of your wedding day. The timing on these photos typically depends on if the couple is seeing each other before the service or not. If seeing each other before the service then many of...
One of the biggest challenges wedding photographers face is the lighting at the venues chosen by the couples and as photographers we need to make sure we communicate these challenges with our clients. While any venue can be worked around the results may not be what the client had hoped for. Mixed Lighting Tungsten...
The digital world is all around us and over the last few years it’s had an immense impact on how we live our lives and how we manage our business. The world or wedding photography has virtually been torn apart and put back together, sometimes haphazardly over these last few years. Ten years ago...
by Mark Hayes - Denver Wedding Photographer
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Having live in Colorado almost my entire life I tend to take a few things for granted, the effect the altitude can have on people being one of them, and another being that Colorado is a wonderful spot for destination weddings. While the bulk of my wedding photography work is in and around Denver, with...
by Mark Hayes - Denver Wedding Photographer
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Data backup for wedding clients So the wedding is over and you’ve got some prints, maybe an album, and most likely a optical disc (CD or DVD) of images. Actually you might be one of the many couples who just want the disc and worry about prints or albums later (my thoughts on that in...
A lot of the time we get asked why we add the second photographer into ALL of our larger packages and why we push for it even on smaller and ala-carte weddings. After all it’s not cheap, why take a second shooter over printed proofs or a few hours of extended coverage. I always try...
Contract Sign and return the original contract with your retainer to the studio. Keep a copy for yourself in a safe place so that you can refer to this important document for the contents of your wedding photography package. Retainer $1000 At this point you don’t have to lock in a collection or ala-carte...
by Mark Hayes - Denver Wedding Photographer
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