Hiring a Creative Professional
Like many brides and grooms, your wedding could be the first time you will be hiring a creative professional.
How you manage your relationship with a wedding photojournalist can have just as profound an impact on the photographs as the day unfolding before the camera. Luckily, you and me (your photographer) both want the same outcome: amazing photos that capture the feeling of the wedding day.
I suggest focusing less on the business process and more on the creative one when you are working with a wedding photojournalist. Of course, we both sign a contract, and ultimately there will be details relating to the types of packages purchased, schedule, costs, and possibly album design, but that should all be secondary when it comes to selecting and working with your creative professional.
More than anything, you must trust your photographer. Part of trusting your photographer is being able to hand over the reigns. Accept that you cannot control everything; that’s why you hire professionals to carry out a shared creative vision.
For example, I am not a fan of the big list. The small list is ok…formal photographs, certain family members from out of town. But not the lists of all the moments: the candles, the garter toss, the bride walking down the aisle. I will get that...
If you give a wedding photojournalist too long of a to-do list, it distracts them from what you hired them to do in the first place: shoot spontaneous, once-in-a-lifetime moments that can not be predicted, and therefore, could never be included on a list.
How you manage your relationship with a wedding photojournalist can have just as profound an impact on the photographs as the day unfolding before the camera. Luckily, you and me (your photographer) both want the same outcome: amazing photos that capture the feeling of the wedding day.
I suggest focusing less on the business process and more on the creative one when you are working with a wedding photojournalist. Of course, we both sign a contract, and ultimately there will be details relating to the types of packages purchased, schedule, costs, and possibly album design, but that should all be secondary when it comes to selecting and working with your creative professional.
More than anything, you must trust your photographer. Part of trusting your photographer is being able to hand over the reigns. Accept that you cannot control everything; that’s why you hire professionals to carry out a shared creative vision.
For example, I am not a fan of the big list. The small list is ok…formal photographs, certain family members from out of town. But not the lists of all the moments: the candles, the garter toss, the bride walking down the aisle. I will get that...
If you give a wedding photojournalist too long of a to-do list, it distracts them from what you hired them to do in the first place: shoot spontaneous, once-in-a-lifetime moments that can not be predicted, and therefore, could never be included on a list.
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