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I suggest and Guide couples with wedding photo locations far more than not.
I'd say more than 50% ASK me if I know any good places or where would I suggest we go. More times than not, I have worked in the area before and know the nearby locations or those on the way between the reception and the church.
I find the default for many people even in this day and age is still parks with loads of flowers in the gardens. I was always creatively numbed by that 20 odd years ago, nothing has changed.
Very frequently the suggestions I make are to go to some run down or out the way place that looks desolate or very "un-beautiful".
It's about what was mentioned and seeing the location as it will look in a pic and what you can do with whats there, not the over all look of the joint. As I say, for the main part, I'm only looking to shoot an area 12 Ft wide and whats behind it, to a degree. Outside of that, I'm not terribly worried.
Frequently I get looks when I say Lets go to the old docks or the deserted factory but I have done it enough now to have plenty of sample pics to show them something they never imagined and very few don't like it. I frequently get the parents having a freak out on the day as well thinking " What the F are we doing here?" Fire off a few frames, show them what I'M seeing in the camera and things quickly change. Then I get the repeated " I would have never thought you could make a place like this look so good".
Yep, that's what your paying for.
I think knowing a variety of locations and being able to suggest them to match the clients desires for what they are really looking to get out of their pictures is an important part of my Job. I have been saying for many years, "There's more to this game than just Pushing a button" and I regard knowing locations in your city/ area to be one of the wider points of knowledge I should have to provide the best service and professionalism to my clients and increase my value to them in what they are paying me.
Another thing that comes up a LOT I help people with is the planning of the day.
They might say the church is at 3 and we want to go here and do this, but they don't think of the timing. Ok, church is at 3, you'll be ready to go by 4 , 30 min drive on a sat afternoon to get that few KM, get everyone out and ready to shoot, sunset is at 5 and you need to be back at the reception by 5:30.
Doesn't add up, you better have a rethink of your timing.
You'd be amazed how many times the lightbulb comes on with that and the next thing I know I get a call or a message to say they have now moved the church forward to 1 so they have time ( and light) for what they want to do.
Dunno about not influencing the wedding pic locations, I frequently influence the whole damn day!
Significantly!
I think I would be pretty pi$$ed with anyone I hired If I got to the park in the dark and said "Oh, we didn't think of the time of year and how dark it would be and leave enough time" and they said they could have told me it would be too dark and we'd run late.
Yeah, you can tell the dentist how all those teeth came to be missing now as well!
With the wedding Pics, people can always go check out the locations for themselves before hand and most of mine do. I have never had anyone say they were dissapointed with the location but I do have a lot of cards and notes I have been sent over the years from people telling me what great spots I have suggested that they never even knew were there.
I think it's MY job to give my clients all the benefits of my experience and knowledge I can to make their day as successful as possible even if it does run well beyond just the immediate work of photography.
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Jun 15, 2015 at 10:25 PM |
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