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wedding photography is so expensive |
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Understanding
the big picture.
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After
the last bridal show in Austin Tx, we got together with some friends
for dinner and the conversation shifted to the cost of wedding photography
and why it can be so expensive. When someone books a 5-6 hour wedding
with us they may not be aware that our true time commitment to our
customer is about 30 - 40 hours. We want our customers to understand
that a professional photographer does more than “just shoot
and burn a disk”. The wedding day is just the beginning. As
professional photographers Everafter Images always photographs in
camera RAW format. This means that our workflow after the wedding
is a day or so to process the 800-1500 images. Yes, we do check/adjust
each image for color balance, exposure, composition etc as part of
our processing Then, we upload the entire wedding to the internet
so family and friends can enjoy the photos. It takes quite a bit of
time even with page templates and upload scripts to create/upload
the 800-1500 thumbnail images, larger images and web proof pages.
A few months after the wedding, our happily married couple contacts
us to go over their initial selection(s) for inclusion into their
album and for prints. Many times we meet again and go over the 1st
draft list, then select album covers, inserts or work up album page
layouts. The images then go “off to the lab” for printing/processing.
The appointments, lab transportation, phone calls, emails, etc add
a significant amount of time to a wedding client. As you go about
selecting your photographer, please consider how much time and commitment
your photographer is including in the “5 hour job” as
you look at the cost for capturing your most special day – your
wedding.
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