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 p.2 #6 · How many images do your couples need to remember their day? | |
Lets take my typical wedding of 12 hours.
Getting ready:
1. some photos of the dress, girls,bride,parents around their daughter. Some hugs,kisses and real emotion as they see their daughter. Perhaps gift exchanges and all the emotion during it. Same for the for the groom. Here are ~ 40-50 pictures already. Many clients I photograph decorate their homes beautifully and want pictures of that too. You can't do all that with 20+ pictures per couple
Church:Bridal party is there for a reason and they buy expensive dresses/suits and they would want a few photos. Procession. Emotions of the groom standing there. Some churches are really beautiful and cost a lot of money. Some photos of the interior during the ceremony. Ring exchanges, kiss, emotions of parents,grandparents and perhaps friends. Maybe a few photos of the guests who came to the church. Maybe even exterior. 20-30 images are needed for all of that.
Then goes a creative session. Say it's an hour long(I normally get up to 4,but it's typically 1 for a lot of people). bride,groom,bridal party,a few portraits with parents
30 images
Reception part: They paid a lot of money for flowers,decor,cake and want a few photos to remember it all. Then there's dancing of the bride&groom, then with parents then speeches, emotion during speeches and laughs of all the family members. Then dancing starts and I do want to see happy images of all my family members. I want to see them enjoying themselves, maybe dancing with b&g. Some couples take dancing lessons and do a few of them during the day. Some guest come in out of the country and b/g having seen them in many years. I am sure they'd want a few photographs with them as well or at least see them i photographs 60-100 images.
Bottom line: there are a lot of small details during a wedding that are important to the bride and groom. "Look, in this photo you were in church and in that photo you dancing and that's it" is when a photographer is unable to see details or even understand what wedding is and what really happens during it. I could personally care less about flowers and decor,but then I know it's important for them as they pay a lot of money for all that stuff and spent countless of hours looking for it.
Women also tend to be very critical towards themselves. They have good sides and bad sides.They have angles they like and hate and sometimes giving an extra angle on what seems to be the same freaking picture really makes a difference to them! You want your clients to refer you so the end result has to be good enough or they will not be happy. If clients won't like how they look on half of those 50 pictures, they won't be happy at all!!
Just had a client who had things flown from Italy for a wedding(groom and bride's attire) then jewelery from a well known designer ,custom made cufflinks with logos of bride and groom,gold sprinkled flowers.Wedding dress had laces with bride's and groom's names embroidered. It's only makes sense that they wanted pictures of that. What did I have to say,
"I am sorry,but I can only give you 50 pictures so those will probably won't make it"??
"And that picture of you hugging your grandmother that you haven't seen for 5 Years and that died after the wedding...well, I didn't think it fit your wedding story or my style of shooting so I wasn't taking any pictures during that time".
"Neither was I taking pictures during the time you were playing with your nieces".
Sure, there will be clients that will get that photographer who only gives 50 photos or only 10 photos,but that's very rare, because most people care enough about pictures and memories to need more. Most clients that I photograph don't hire videographers(sometimes because I ask them...) so it is my job to document the day so that 10,30,50 years from their wedding day they can look at each image and recall things that happen during the day and have pictures of those who are dear to them.
I think that makes sense.
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